The DAC in the Touch is an AKM4420.
You can check the others here:-
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_comparison
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arnyk wrote:
> Sample here:
> http://thetomtomclub.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-flat-response-magazine
>
That guy likes to talk about himself.
Seems somewhat disingenuous to attempt to ascribe the "distortion" of
the whole A-D-A digital recording and playback chain of a signal at
-90db to the d
andy_c wrote:
> It's almost a sure bet that the distortion measurements above were done
> with an un-dithered test signal as you said.
It's an equally sure bet that commercial CD's and DVDs are dithered.
The tests done without dither can have no purpose other than produce bad
performance that h
StephenPG wrote:
> I've had a Touch and a Duet for a few years now, and have yet to find a
> DAC that sounds different, let alone better, than the analogue outputs
> of either.
theres NO question the dac (anyone know what the DAC in SBT Is..???) in
the SBT ia very good.But I would still reckon a
arnyk wrote:
> "Noel admitted that just stating that CD had 40% distortion was about as
> meaningful as trying to say that it had negligible distortion, but he
> pointed out that digital differs in one vital way from analogue. And
> that’s in the fact that with analogue, as the signal level gets
andy_c wrote:
> That quote is a satire of itself! Poe's Law is in effect here.
IOW, it is so flawed that it is hard to tell how serious the author is
about it. Sort of like reading the collected works of Michael Fremer, or
most of the rest of the Stereophile and The Absolute sound staff.
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