Archimago wrote: > 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 any last thing you want to see done > while I have the Touch connected.
Thanks for this measurements series a lot of real work done . 4. Urgh , very fine recording but you tikled another toe here , the intrisinic resolution of the old recordings are less than any modern format you chose to present them in . Even if it's fantastic sounding with fantastic music the noise levels and frequency response are such that it can be completely coded by any format from 16/44.1 and upward. The delivery format is never the limit nowadays . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
