Mphillips;574288 Wrote: > Here we go. The touch is wired. The same connection as I used with the > sb3. I do not believe that it is shielded cat 5 wire. Connecting just > one output of the touch still had distortion. Plugging the touch into a > different electrical circuit does not alter he distortion. I tried the > touch in another receiver and it worked properly. There seems to be an > interaction problem at work here. As far as levels, the cd player may > even sound a little louder than the touch at full volume. Preamp volume > setting equal for both inputs. I cant see how the touch could be > overloading the pre. The levels were not that hot with my test song. > Even so, playing songs that are much lover in overall level still sound > bad. The touch sounds flat compared to the cd. No life. Is there some > other signal present at the rca outs that might cause the distortion? I > am sure that it is just the left input of the pre that is sensitive. On > the other hand using the headphone out even with its lover level sounds > much closer to the cd (with matching the preamp levels) and more > "interesting" than the sb3. I don't have any real issue using the > headphone output with the exception of having to use an rca to mini > adaptor. All of this just puzzles me Any more thoughts?
I'm baffled. You say this is the second Touch that did exactly this? -- 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), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81708 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
