I understanding and believe that the actual bitstream (1's and 0's) cannot be altered.
As Phil has recently mentioned, there's the possibility that some of the TT3.0 mods influence the inner workings of the Touch as relates to what's coming out of the Touch's analog outputs. But that's not what I'm interested in hearing about. If people are merely using the Touch as a digital transport---connected to a dac via coax or toslink----is there an explanation, other than the much-discussed jitter question, for why there are such a number of people here that seem to hear differences with the TT 3.0 modifications and, more specifically, with changes to the priorities and buffer sizes. Is there any reason---real or even theoretically---that, for lack of a better word---something like noise would be transmitted to the dac along with the bitstream and somehow find it's way from the Touch, through the dac's processes, into to the dac's analog output, and on to be manifested in audible changes? Before some of the posters here go all "holier than thou" I'm aware of the following: 1. This has been asked before, but it's been a while and newer people won't be bothered to read through all the history. 2. One of the things that seems baffling to the non-technical amongst us is that engineers and designers of dacs, amps, and speakers seem to always be able to claim alterations and improvements to their products' sound (while not claiming alterations to the bitstreams). The logical follow-on to this, for a numpty, is that if all these tech-types, product reviewers, etc. say that this or that change in software/firmware/hardware can purportedly alter how the music sounds for the better, then why can't altering these same types of items in the Touch do the same? NOTE: Please don't post replies along the lines of "they hear it because they're naive, stupid, gullible, cargo-cult believing fools". If this is the best you can come up with, keep it to yourselves. As one fellow here essentially said, trying to pass off rudeness under the guise of cleverness is still rudeness. It will certainly attract more reasonable and curious people to this hobby by having some patience, and educating and explaining as opposed to eye-rolling, disgust, and insults. -- rgro Rg System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Vortexbox > Teddy Pardo PS, Touch (wired) > Toslink > Rega DAC > LFD LE IV Signature amp > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: Duet/SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.7.2 r33908 on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 2.0, Touch: FW 7.7.1 r9558. Duet: FW 77. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
