adamdea wrote: > 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.
The bits don't magically move from the ouside the Touch, into the Touch and then out of the Touch. At it's heart is a little computer that has to make millions of decisions a second about what task it is going to do next and what resource to allocate to that task. Out of the box the Touch is trying to do lots of multimedia type things eg checking the screen brightness 500 times a second, with TT3.0 and other optimisations the Touch is made to focus more on allocating those resources to the movement of bits from input to output buffers. So, in reality it is just tuning a computer, the same as non Touch users have to tune their servers to get the best sound out. It's not crypto engineering, it's just most people don't understand what the Touch is doing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
