krzys;556750 Wrote: > I'm a long time user of Squeezeboxes, first SB2 and now the Touch. I > only use the digital output. In my opinion, Touch sounds much better > than SB2 even a bit moded (transformer balanced output, filter chokes > removed and linear supply). The sound has much more details, much > better soundstage and much more bass strength for the main > differences. > I installed the Soundchekk's software modes. Big differences again I > would describe it as at least three layers of veil removed, great. The > attacks of drum or guitar are much faster and soundstage and low level > details are much better. > But I have a problem with this new sound, the bad records which sounded > bad before now sound very bad! The opposite is true for the good ones. > It is a bit hard to get accustom to this new sound > I don't know if somebody shares this impression but with a lot of > modern Hi-end systems music is reproduced like with a magnifier, every > small detail can be heard as if it was miked from inches. This does not > correspond to a real live musical performance. > To resume, the mods doesn't change the sound of the Touch but the > result depends on the system and ones preferences > BTW I do not stream FLACs as PCM because I use Inguz plug-in and it > gives me much more gains than reducing Touch CPU activity. The weakest > link of a system is always the room. > Chris
That's the problem with "fidelity" - the truth can hurt :-) I've installed the tweaks. Will do some listening after the football (soccer) -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79857 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
