Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-08-15 Thread lovejoy
Waldo Pepper wrote: > Then you learned alot but understood nothing. They are represented down > a piece of wire as zero volts and probably 5v. It would have to be a > pretty long and noisy wire for there to be any discrepency. At bit rates > encountered in baseband digital audio, characteristic i

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-27 Thread lovejoy
> > > The "loudness wars" (look on youtube if you are not aware of it) also > ruins music. > > I got hold of a dvd audio copy of suedes eponymous album and it was > heavily > compressed with a lower dynamic range rating than the original CD > release (dr9). > > stupid! > > Martin N > > Run

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-27 Thread lovejoy
Viventis wrote: > I asked a question in the Triode, Digital Enhancement App thread as to > whether the app would allow the transmission of 24bit/192kHz through > toslink or spdif cables. The response I received is that it would, so > long as my receiver's DAC could handle it. Fortunately, my O

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-26 Thread lovejoy
ralphpnj wrote: > > > On my other Squeezebox to external DAC setups I've simply learned to > live with these less than perfect means of digital data transmission. Same here, I love my Squeezebox and for a good session discovering new music via Spotify or some internet radio, nothing comes clos

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-26 Thread lovejoy
saeyedoc wrote: > It's reasonable to assume that there may be measurable differences, but > are they audible? That's the real question. It's different in a pro > setting where you don't want to propagate those small errors, they could > add up to something audible eventually. Is it audible in th

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-26 Thread lovejoy
ralphpnj wrote: > Oh my what an awful burden it must be to be born with a pair of golden > ears. Just thinking about it makes me want to weep. It's a curse. Oh to be able to enjoy music as much from a tinny micro system ;-). > Look I consider myself somewhat of an audiophile but that does not m

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-26 Thread lovejoy
ralphpnj wrote: > Double WOW - you are making way too much sense and common sense and > science are most definitely NOT welcome in any modern audio forum. Plus > my post should be number 8 and so far no one has told the OP that the > USB modification is the ONLY way to go, after all with this mod

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-26 Thread lovejoy
As I said at the bottom of my message, just posting my *EXPERIENCE* based upon many hours of listening and enjoying or not enjoying music. If you can't hear any difference then all the best to you, you've achieved the best sound for your system and I'm jealous and wish you all the best. But don't

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] coax vs toslink

2012-07-24 Thread lovejoy
Viventis wrote: > There should be no difference at all. Digital is digital. Your > receiver's DAC will decode each the same. The big difference is in the > Touch's analog output. The DAC in the Touch is excellent, even better > than that found in many receivers. I beg to differ. Getting the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Async USB Dac Experiments - testers wanted...

2012-02-20 Thread lovejoy
ldn't run the buffer any lower than 4000 using kernel #1 (without the USB hub) without getting gaps in the audio, I can set it right the way down to 3200 with kernel #2 without a glitch, even at 24/96. Now to work out whether there is any audible difference between kernel #1 and kernel #2! -

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Async USB Dac Experiments - testers wanted...

2012-02-15 Thread lovejoy
able to use the CDQ's remote to control track skipping, play and pause. Nice work. -- lovejoy lovejoy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47846 View this threa

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What's Random?

2011-10-24 Thread lovejoy
ber is needed and summed together. Being low accuracy analogue oscillators which are sampled at indeterminate periods this gives you as close to random as you're ever going to get in a computer based system. But of course Logitech are unlikely to