Dura;569986 Wrote: > Hi everyone, first post. > Been lurking here from sometimes, as I had a Squeezebox Classic, but my > desktop is a well-spec'ed PC with matching power hunger, and I do not > like the idea to let the thing on all day for listening music. > So I was interested in the Touch, and eventually bought it 4 days ago. > It would be ideal to use a portable HD (WD passport 320 GB), since I > already had that and used it for my music library backup anyway. But > reading the posts here I was afraid it was not going to work, because > it is powered by the USB. > However, it works quite nice, after some small initial problems. > I use a Russ Andrews Squeezepak as PS, that I had bought for the > Classic). > Yesterday I was curious if the PS still made a difference with the > sound on the Touch as it did on the Classic, so I installed the > standard PS; guess what happened? The HD was no longer recognized by > the Touch, no matter what I did. > Re-inserting the Squeezepak restored things. > So the conclusion seems to be that the PS can also help to get a > portable HD going, though I would not advice to take the gamble, since > you still have the chance that it would not work. > > I also compared the Classic and the Touch (both SPDIF connected to an > Audio-GD Reference5 DAC with FLAC files). > Sound quality wise the difference is clearly noticable, the Classic > having a softer, more rounded sound with more seeming depth, the Touch > being more precise and more forward. > I suppose this difference is caused by the Classic injecting more RFI > and/or jitter in the signal, and the Touch seems to have a cleaner > digital signal, but truth being told, I quite like the musical, softer > sounds coming out of the Classic. But the Touch sound is very good to, > and I probably have to get used to the added precision. > Comparing FLAc through the HD to FLAC expanded to WAV's on the server I > did not notice any difference. > Hope this might help someone, as I got a lot of help from the very well > informed helpful people here. > > Best, Lex
The Touch walks over the SB3 in terms of both its digital output and analogue. If you prefer the SB3 that's fine. ymmv. -- 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=81296 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
