SoftwireEngineer wrote: > hmm..surprising you should hear these differences even with your 851c. I > hear the same characteristics (glass toslink/zu ash) with my humble > Panny and to a smaller extent with my TACT S2150. This is the reason I > am banking on Archimago to settle the issue once for all, atleast for a > few of us involved in the discussions here. (no pressure, Archimago :-) > ) > I got into Squeezebox because I felt architecturally it is the best way > to do computer audio. My main reasons - a) it is not dependent on > computer hardware/power supply for the digital output. b) It is > 'asynchronous' .i.e can handle network bandwidth/congestion. c) It is > easier to provide a clean/good power supply to a smaller device than a > computer (more complex). > Only caveat was, Slimdevices themselves confused me by introducing a > higher-end - Transporter. And now, the whole industry is after > 'asynchronous USB' when the whole architecture was already there in SB. > hmm..
Yes, it is interesting that people tend to talk about the differences using similar descriptions. It is troubling to me in that I wouldn't expect any differences in the physical interconnect to survive a journey through the buffering/up sampling process inside my player as this is very effective at removing input jitter. I also like the the touch for the same 'architectural' reasons you do. We do loose some of the benefits of asynchronous operation and a single clock domain when using an external DAC unfortunately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlexM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
