Munroe;681856 Wrote: > HAHA! thanks for the information. I find it got a bit into the weeds, > for me personally, when it came to the daily tweaking posts. I enjoy > the music but don't want to stick my head in a vice to get the perfect > sound. Where does it end? I want to set it and forget it. My main > concern was whether to spend money on a DAC or just use the analog > outs, and achieve a more balanced audio and space, than my current CD > player which is a bit bright. Having the Touch at stock settings then > to a DAC, is just the answer that makes the most sense to me. > > Another reason I looked into the SW tweaks initially was a descrepancy > in sound I experienced when listening to Sky.FM in 256k vs a lossless > rip of the exact same track on my own server. Oddly, SKY.FM had more > fidelity on my 716V's which defies logic... mind you I listen to mostly > classic rock, etc. so SKY.FM could be streaming a remastered version of > the old CD I ripped. So it may not even be an apples to apples > comparison. I thought initially it was a link in my chain, and I wanted > to see if any tweaks made a difference. > > I think I am going to reset the Touch and look for a decent DAC > (<$1000), and be done with it. Thanks for pointing me in the right > direction. There are now quite a few decent dacs under $1k like the MF M1 dac, rega dac and perhaps the audiolab dac which some people seem to like, maybe the m2tech young dac (not sure what price these go for in the US.)
I have a theory that the value of the soundcheck mods is to cure the cognitive dissonance people feel in the face of a $200 plastic device which sounds just as good as a large cd player with a mil spec aluminium face plate. The laws of audiophile placebo manipulation decree that time spent tweaking (be it applying mains cables or adding blu tack or fiddling with linux priorities)can eventually make up for the absence of milspec faceplates or over-specified power supplies. I have noticed that some tweaking fanatics have pronounced after the 3rd or 4th sequential night and day improvement that the touch now sounds as good as their CDT into their dac (which of course it always did.) -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92801 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
