adamdea;577044 Wrote: > Very kind of you, thanks, but I will pass for now. I have just got my > Touch back after audioupgrades fitted the second clock (and connected > the first clock which they had actually not connected- the 44.1/88.2 > was still coming from the stock oscillator.) I am not touching anything > until that has had a little while to settle in (or my ears have had the > chance to adjust to it if you prefer.) > > I agree with you about the ears/brain: once you get beyond really > obvious upgrades I find it very difficult to tell. Frankly every time I > listen to music I find it slightly different. I am however coming round > to a rather startling conclusion which is that the modification of my > X-DAC has had as much of a difference on MP3s as on hi rez FLAC. > > While my touch was away I played CDs through my Xray v3 cd player (I > really did buy into the X series) and I felt quite strongly that it was > not as good a transport as the touch. This is quite significant because > when it came out the X ray v3 was reviewed by Hi Fi News and praised > specifically as a transport.
Agree with all of that. Having owned a Linn CD12 (gulp) I feel reasonably well placed to conclude that the Touch can outperform ANY cd-spinner as a pure transport. And that's without spending thousands on machines to grind the edge of the discs, zap them with ultraviolet or any other lunatic scheme to "improve" the wretched discs... :-) The X-series were genuine bargains, let down by some rather mundane component choices. The Audiocom full-blown mods elevate the X-DACv3 and X-10 into a different league. The X-PSU is just icing on the cake really - maybe 1-2% of the overall sound? As for modding the Touch... Personally I think the basic stock circuit is pretty good. Not sure there is too much mileage there (especially in my setup with the TACT ASRC) - but I'd be interested to hear your opinions. -- 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=78938 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
