Well, precisely, it does not seem that we have already reached this stage of happiness... There is evidence out there, that some aspects, that do have a noticeable influence on the accuracy of d/a conversion, are (still) overseen or unknown. I don't actually care, what these differences exactly are. I just want the sound in my living room to be as close as possible to how the instruments sounded when recorded.
However, I will probably have to go on, experimenting for myself. I had a nice offer for a "Transporter". But as long as it is not sure, that this will make a real difference compared to my touch, when using an external dac of course, it represents still too much money for an uncertain result. So for the time being I stick to my touch. Eventually, I will try out hooking the touch to the DAC by usb, maybe there is room for improvement with such a DAC-clocked data connection. Maybe just to give you my point of comparison: I own a couple of vinyl disks that are recorded with a method they called "direct-to-disc". In today's standards, this would mean, hard disk recording. But these disks were recorded long before the digital age. Direct-to-disc meant at those times, that there was no magnetic tape involved. So actually, they recorded directly to the original, from where copies for the disk were made. By the way, recording this way was quite a bit of a challenge: The musicians had to play one side of the disk without interruption, and of course, no way of mastering and correcting after recording. It was just like live: The moment it was played, it was definitive. However, some of these disks are really revealing. I have never heard any other recording sound so realistic. The illusion of having the musicians in the living room comes indeed incredibly close. That is for me the reference point for home hifi... and no digital reproduction I had the chance to hear, has come close to that, until now. Even though, sometimes it sounds very pleasing, its still not as realistic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ diego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40897 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
