firedog;619570 Wrote: > Of course the SBT is bit perfect, but that doesn't necessarily have > anything to do with what you hear. From "bit perfect" to the analogue > you hear lots of things happen: Jitter, RF interference, filtering etc.
Noted. Taken care to ensure the rest of the equipment is good to minimise jitter, RF interference, filtering, etc. Everything is plugged into the shunyata hydra and all the inter connects are good: digital cable is the stereovox ultra, interconnects are kimber select, power cords are kimber palladian or kimber pk 10 gold. As is evident, the shielding on these cables is good Ayre C5XE MP is connected to the same equipment: same dac, same system and sounds far better than the touch. Will work on soundchecks mods and then compare and report back. If you take a look at hiface (m2 tech) and the modified hi face, Pure music, amarra, etc their whole selling point is to give you a bit perfect signal at the USB output and feed it to your dac via a digital cable. Even this setup sounds better than the touch in my system. However, nothing REPEAT nothing can beat the convenience of a NAS with all your music. Imagine using a hiface off your laptop. How much can you fit it? NOT MUCH as they recommend using Solid state drives. The bigger sizes are very expensive. I need 2 TB to fit my stuff. So have to keep working on the touch till I get where I want to go! -- dhinesh Squeezebox Touch, Duet and Classic, Ayre C 5 XE MP CD Player, Audio Research Ref 5 Preamp, Audio Research Dac 8, Mark Levinson No 436 Monoblocks, Shunyata Hydra, Cables: Shunyata Anaconda, Kimber Palladian, Stereovox Ultra digital cable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dhinesh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12813 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86419 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
