> . If there were 'Free Tweaks', don't you think the manufacture with all > their resources would have included them to improve their own product? > Stop and actually think about that one for a minute.
No I don't. And it isn't true for almost any product. The Touch is designed to appeal to a very broad audience and has lots of features. Any one of them may be a deal breaker for one user and of no interest to another. Logitech isn't trying to make the "best product possible"or the "best sounding one possible". They are trying to make the "product that will appeal to the most people AT A CERTAIN PRICE POINT and that will fit in with the overall product strategy of the SB line of products". So the Touch has some features that appeal to audiophiles, but it hasn't been made to produce "absolutely the best sound" without certain tweaks, because the tweaks make the product less appealing to other consumers. With the tweaks the Touch would be a niche product; without them it has a chance to be a mass seller. I personally own a Duet that I run to an external DAC. My only real interest in the Touch is it's native capability for playback of hi-res, and the SB user interface (but not the Touch part of the touch screen).If the Duet had the native 88k and 96k playback, I wouldn't have bought a Touch to replace it. To me that was worth $300, as there isn't any other device on the market that does those things for that price. The Hiface isn't it, as it doesn't give you a user interface. The tweaks to me make sense, as I hope to get better performance exactly in the areas of the Touch that interest me. The Touch has lots of features. I don't understand why some of you can't understand doing the tweaks. They may not be for you, but all that means is that each person buys the multi-use device for somewhat different reasons. To each his own. -- firedog Tranquil PC fanless WHS server running SqueezeServer; SB Duet through Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-150 amp, MF V DAC3, Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Mirage MS-12 sub; Dual 506 + Ortofon 20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80013 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
