diego wrote: > Hey there, is this IT...? No other testimonials? Is it the last word > that the Touch is just "perfect" at the s/pdif output, end of the > story? > > Come one, Girls and Boys, this can't be the end of the story :) ! > > Let me resume: Even the well established and beyound doubt neutral > german hifi-review-magazine "Stereo" noted, that different DACs they > connected to the Touch did not deliver the same sound level, than other > digital sources they have compared (in particular: The SACD-Player/DAC > 820S of Lindemann performed in direct comparison far better with the > SACDs than with the same tracks with the same resolution over the > Touch's s/pdif). Even though, they confirmed, that the s/pdif - output > was "bit perfect" when set to 100% volume. Which did not change the > final verdict. The conclusion was clearly, that the s/pdif output did > NOT sound perfectly. > > Also, there are lots of testimonials of people who had their Touch > hardware modified. However, we all know, how to read those statements. > Everybody has a tendency to justify her/his investment. And secondly, > those people usually do not have any stock Touch left to compare with, > when the Touch comes back from modding. > > However: There is much reason to trust the girls and guys from "Stereo". > Which means: Whatever the reason is (maybe yet unknown), there IS room > for improvement. > > So here I am back with THE question. The ball is back with you: Kick it! > > > WHO has the secret for getting just the best sounding s/pdif output out > of a squeezebox-protocol based streaming system? > > Hope to read from you! > > Cheers! Urs It's strange that there aren't more suggestions. There are usually loads of people dying to tell everyone about their frequent night and day changes. Perhaps there is a subjectivist convention out of town. I'm afraid i'm no use because I got the first ever fidelity audio touch upgrade and couldn't tell whether there was any difference. I'm so deaf i can't hear the difference between toslink and coax.
IN the meantime you could amuse yourself perhaps by wondering whether "improved" spdif out would necessarily have any consistent effect on different DACs. Bearing in mind that dacs can read all the data in the spdif stream perfectly (ie with no information loss), the mysterious process whereby the transport still adversely affects the D/A conversion process needn't have any consistent effect on every dac. To read the testimonies on this forum it appears that changing the buffer size in the touch affects the sound of a dac connected by spdif to the touch, but some people prefer shorter buffers and some long. The cypto-engineering principles at work appear to be subtle. Based on these irreproachable premises it seems that eg lots of high frequency jitter might sound better on one dac than a small amount of low frequency jitter; but the reverse may be the case on another dac. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
