magiccarpetride wrote: > I must say I'm baffled by your posts here. Didn't you originally claim, > when you announced your EDO, that your intention was ONLY to enable > 24/192 processing on the Touch, and that you were certain that this mod > could not possibly affect the sound quality otherwise? You seemed > adamant at that point then that all the perceived differences are to be > boiled down to subjective placebo and expectation bias. So why are you > now engaged in discussing the possibility that there could be, after > all, differences in the sound quality? What changed? Why don't you stick > to your guns and let the dreamers continue dreaming?
Yes... I'm baffled by my posts here :), but its why I wanted to split this discussion from the thread on the Touch forum which is about functionality not subjective impressions of sound quality. I can believe EDO impacts sounds quality, but didn't want to claim it initially exactly because of the direction this thread has taken.... I believe the main reason there is an impact for this for spdif is that turning off the internal dac means there is less audio related signal on the power rails (should be none!). However this also leads discussion of cpu activity related noise which can be changed by whatever processes run which is the ongoing debate here. In this second case I stand by the belief that unless the code which is executed to move audio packets around is changed in some way then I don't see it impacting sound quality. Changing things which I can show does not impact the alsa settings or the code executed to copy samples around is extremely unlikely to impact sound quality (at best it impacts the content of un-accessed memory locations!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94855 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
