You guys are hilarious :-). Well, it's cloudy and 6C today in Vancouver, humidity 80%, so probably a terrible time to do any real audiophile listening! Guess I'll have to wait a month or two before humidity gets to 60% so I can "seriously" listen (or import that crisp Tibetan air). Sorry Ralph, your machine will likely lead to parasitic vibrations with the Peter Belt foils I have all over my DAC, cables, and CD's - just can't have that kind of thing going on.
OK, I'll give the following test a try tonight: Touch analogue out measurement (IMO no point with digital out since measurements of noise floor, dynamic range, etc. are just showing the limits of the downstream DAC as demonstrated by the lack of difference shown despite how extreme everything went when I tried the TT mod!): 1. Server side decoding of FLAC --> PCM 24/96. Too bad 24/192 cannot be played analogue on the Touch since that would REALLY stress the wireless. 2. WiFi with WPA password protection in place, I'll try to report wireless strength. Remember, the Touch is only capable of Wireless-G on the 2.4GHz band. (My wireless router is an ASUS RT-N56U bought about 2 years ago if anyone cares.) 3. Hypothetically, then, if indeed this amount of data throughput is stressing the Touch, then we would expect the noise level to rise due to all that electrical "work" being done, right? Obviously, if the wireless network cannot handle the throughput, the result should show gross anomalies due to buffer issues as well. 4. Just to show that I'm not completely a measurebator, I'll subject myself to listening to some "Waltz For Debbie" (24/192 -> 24/96 server downsampling) and see if Bill Evans and boys sound like crap when the music is "beamed". Cheers... Let me know if there's anything else you want to see done. After this, I really can't imagine anything else I care to test with the Touch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
