HeadBanger;588713 Wrote: > Ah, OK. > > The DacMagic is renowned for being extremely resilient against jitter > and even copes with the most noisy / jittery of computers via USB > input. There is a review by HiFi Choice (UK) that comments on this - > search Cambridge Audio's website as they had it available as PDF. > > In short, unless you want to listen to 24/96 music in its native form I > doubt there's likely to be any tangible benefits feeding a DacMagic via > a Touch rather than a Receiver. Whether true of other DAC's I don't > know!
I seriously doubt that. I wouldn't make that statement purely on the basis of trust/belief. AFAIK everyone here who has tried the Touch against the Duet - with a wide variety of DAC's - has said the Touch sounds better. Some have even said that the Touch internal DAC sounds better than their external one. The DacMagic is a good design (especially for its price) - but it isn't magic :-) and it's certainly not jitter-proof. DAC's that are relatively unphased by input jitter include the Benchmark and Lavry designs (and a few really expensive ones!). Bottom line: you have to try it for yourself and listen to it. -- 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=83162 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
