aubuti wrote: > There was a fair bit of discussion after the Touch's release (and even > before release once the secret was out and beta testers could discuss it > on the forums) about the comparative quality of the SB3/Classic digital > outs and the Touch's. A lot of people, including some whose opinions I > respect a great deal, concluded that the Touch's digital outs are better > than the SB3's. You're right that the SB's DAC doesn't enter into the > picture, but the explanation given was that the Touch has a "cleaner" (I > think that was the main operative word) signal path from data input to > digital output. > > Whether you can hear that difference with your ears and your music on > your system in your listening room is a separate question. To put it in > terms of the question in the thread title, I suspect that for most > people it would not make "much" difference.
How about the duet receiver? Will that have a cleaner signal path to the digital out than an SB3, comparable with the Touch? At least that won't have any possible interference from display circuitry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jezbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9888 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96868 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
