homecinema67;555770 Wrote: > I can see you have the Transporter and the Touch. Have you ever tried to > plug an external DAC on both of them to compare their sound quality ? I > have the SB3 with a DAC and I'm not sure I will hear a difference if I > buy the Touch and go through my DAC (Goldmund)... what do you think ?
I would say that for standard CD resolution material (16bit/44.1kHz) you will not hear any difference between the SB3 and the Touch. However, that's not the whole story: 1) The Touch can handle high resolution files (24bit/88.2kHz and 24bit/96kHz) directly versus the SB3 which uses SoX to down sample the higher bit rate files to bit rates that the SB3 can handle. 2) By using the built in TinySC the Touch can directly play audio files from an attached USB device or SD card. 3) And then there is the nifty color touch screen. Of course only #1 has anything to do with sound quality but if you have any high resolution audio files (or are planning on acquiring some) then the Touch has a very clear advantage over the SB3 and is, IMHO, well worth the cost. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79680 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
