Just read the review (via my Zinio subscription) which was very interesting and seemed fair. KR if you are around could you clarify- what was your ultimate conclusion about the Touch purely as a digital transport relative to a disk-spinner for 16/44 and 24/whatever. I thought perhaps you were implying that it might be as good (excluding effects of hdmi processor) as an Oppo 83SE vioa HDMI (p. 123 col 1), but probably better than a straight oppo 83 via HDMI for redbook (p. 125 col 2). I was under the impression that the digital outs of the two Oppos were the same. If so have I misunderstood your conclusion? Also can I take it that the comment that there was no good reason why the download shoukld be better in 16/44 than the redbook layer of the disc (p. 125 col 2) was intended to be ironic? All else being equal there is no reason why disc spinner could recover a better data stream from a disc (even assuming it was properly inscribed on the disc) than the (presumably perfect) download file via ethernet. There are many reasons why it might make errors when trying to read the disc in real time. Obviously it could in principle do a better job of getting the bits to the dac, but there is no reason why it should, and some reasons (eg inherent noisiness of high speed disc spinning) why it might not. On the contrary it seems to me that the point of discless audio is that it would be surprising if it were not as good as disc-based audio all else being equal. Only the SPDIF format stands in the way as demonstrated by your preference for isochronous usb. ...well yes obviously you know that.
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