I was using a USB DAC when I noticed the issue, but subsequently noticed it all the other outputs so I came to the conclusion it was NOT a USB specific issue.
After a lot of listening tests and trying different things I came to the conclusion that the primary correlation was decoding flac files on the touch. I have tried numerous tests both with ADM and checking for jitter on the clocks and have not been able to find any difference. Now my jitter measuring capability is not super sensitive so it might still be there but I can't measure it. (really good jitter measuring equipment is really expensive, there is no way I can afford to buy some) What I DID fins was that jitter increases slightly when playing to headphones. Please don't take what I'm saying as meaning that the Touch is somehow defective or woefully underpowered or any thing like that, I am definitely NOT saying that!!!!!!! One of the advantages of the Sb approach is that you put most of the computing on another computer (the server) out of the listening environment, there are many good reasons to do that. The more you put computing back in the SB you are negating those advantages to some degree. Exactly what these are and exactly how they interact with us is not fully understood so I can't give you a precise reason. And to make it much more difficult it seems to vary significantly from setup to setup. For ME the best sound happens when as much computing as possible is done remotely. Others will disagree with that, thats fine. Thats one of the beauties of the Sb system, its very flexible, it lets YOU determine how you want to set up your system and optimize things based on how it sounds to YOU. I also don't want want people to blow this out of proportion, the worst I can get out of the touch (playing flac files on the local server with a USB drive plugged in going got headphones) is actually still really good, much better than most of the equipment in my house. Its just that if you optimize things it sounds phenomenal. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72566 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
