tomjtx;580256 Wrote: > I would certainly agree that a touch + excellent DAC can be comparable > to the Transporter. > > However, at least in the US a smart shopper can find a used or even > close out TP for as little as 900.00. That is a bargain that would be > hard to match with Touch+DAC. > > I've heard the Perfect Wave DAC and it is a great sounding unit but > wasn't better for me. > > If at some point I hear a DAC significantly better my TP will become an > excellent transport that also looks cool :-) > > In the meantime the biggest improvement in my system came from Herbies > Gliders underneath my Watt/Puppies. > I have wood floors on post and beam and the floor is spongy. > Decoupling my speakers from the floor with the gliders made a very > significant impact on the bass, midrange and imaging. It was a huge > upgrade , far more difference than any 2 DACs I have ever heard. > Bass way tighter, imaging kind of jaw droppingly better. > > Total cost was about 100.00. > > Well, I guess the point of this long winded post is that DACs today are > so good that there are many other areas that yield more obvious > improvements.
I had a similar experience putting Linn Skeets under my spikes onto my suspended wooden floor when I moved house. Bass and "imaging" improved noticably and I had to recalibrate my room correction! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82319 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
