Yes to most of the above . Imho some (few ) DVD-A sound better than any CD I heard, many don't ,some simply have a better master as phil pointed out .
However I have the material and now when it's possible i rip it to use all over the house (disc are so awkward the never get any playtime ). The Touch would come in handy here. Native support for 96k means that transcoding will not be happening so often as it loads the server quite a bit. My lean little server can do 24/192 to 24/48 for one player/stream but thats the limit, synk can be weird with 24/192 source ? The sligthly improved digital output may or may not be heard in my system. So Touch is cheaper than a server overhaul. A squeezebox would not suffer from the mentioned problems neither would the DVD-A player I usually use. It has a proprietary link to the pre/processor via it's own protocol over three paralleled coax cables(6ch 24/96 ). Yes 6ch 24/96 is bliss, I wish there where a multichannel squeezebox. DVDA really shine in multi channel. Processor then handles speaker management drc and subwofer filter other stuff and volume in the digital domain. So my signal is going to be post processed in some way, better to keep it in it's native 24/96 format then. I've learned that all processing shall take place in much higher resolution than the finished "product", I think my processor uses 64bit floating point internally to be transparent even with 24/96 material. The nontransparent part is of-course DA and the rest of analog parts In the future I will get active speakers with digital crossover these will probably also accept 24 bit input, so I only starts to loose soundquality after xo and the in the speakers . -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- No it can NOT be controlled with iTunes.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67679 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
