Phil Leigh;577047 Wrote: > 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, slightly 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. I haven't tried out the modded audiocom XDAC without the XPSU but am tempted to experiment now. I have always found it as bit odd that it only steps down 240VAC to 24 VAC, as I would have assumed that the point of an external PSU would be to keep to AC/DC conversion outboard. It made me wonder whether it really made that much difference. I did pay for a full mod of sorts, but I was told that an ealier modding attempt had made it impossible to fit their normal regulators. They used something else which may or may not have been quite as good. As a matter of interest did they do anyhtign to your X 10D/ Perhaps i should send them theat, although it occurred to me that the better the op amps in the DAC the more doubtful the X10D would become. I am very interests in the Digital room corection, and I suspect that my next step might be to try out inguz. I don't know how good that is relative to the TacT system, but i can see the sense in dealing with the whole thing in software before sending it to the DAC. At the moment though I am using a QNAP NAS which runs squeezeserver fine but would not have the horsepower for DRC. Have you read the stereophile Oct review of the touch yet. I think the measurements are interesting. I may start a separate post on this invting more technical sorts to comment on what conclusions we can draw.
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