JohnSwenson;548038 Wrote: > Yesterday I opened mine up again and tried running without the display > at all (physically removed, no connections at all). > > Wow! This made a significant improvement. Way more spaciousness, room > ambience etc. Everything sounds more organic, full bodied etc. > > Of course there are some problems, you can't initialize the Touch from > startup or after a factory reset without the display. You also need the > display to turn on remote login. Once you have remote login working you > can do almost everything else, albeit you have to edit configuration > files for most of them. > > After hearing what it sounds like without the display its hard to go > back! > > This was through the analog outs, It did make some difference on the > digital out but not as much as it did on the analog outs. This was with > a Peachtree Nova which uses the Sabre DAC which is fairly immune to > variances in digital ins, so it might be a bigger difference on other > DACs. > > While it was open I decided to try bypassing the output caps. Again > this made an improvement. Not nearly as big an improvement as taking > out the display but still definitely there. > > As a reference, with the caps bypassed and the display removed the > analog outs are now better than the DAC in the Nova. I was listening to > the Touch driving the Nova both over coax and analog. Listening to the > preamp outs of the nova. The analog from the Touch was definitely > better. And that had an extra set of interconnects as well. > > So the Touch with a linear supply, no display and output caps bypassed > is a REALLY good DAC. > > John S.
What about the screen off screensaver... Did you try that & hear differences? I'd prefer that over ripping out the screen -- sckramer Sb touch - PSaudio DL3 (Cullen level 3) - PSaudio Trio C-100 (Cullen level 3) - energy veritas 2.2i - Martin Logan descent -- PSaudio ac3 power cables - psaudio duet - cardas quadlink 5 interconnect -- Transparent digital cable (1.5m) - audio quest slate spkr cables biwire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sckramer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20311 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78244 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
