asia3s;578047 Wrote: > hi, Guidof, thanks for your sharing. it interested me as I am seeking to > have a standalone DAC or a CD player who is able to be fed with external > digi input, 840C is an option, how did you evaluate this machine's > performance? have you ever compared the sound quality between Touch > analogue output and digi output to 840C? >
asia3s: I had several CD players and DACs in my system prior to the Cambridge Azur 840C, including Adcom, Meridian, an Musical Fidelity. In my opinion the 840C easily outperforms all of them while being still relatively "affordable." It has two digital inputs, so I can feed both my Oppo player and SBTouch into it. It upsamples what it gets to 24/383. And it can output both single-ended and balanced, important to me since my whole system (except for the turntable and phono amp) runs balanced. I did not compare the Touch's digital and analog outputs. Those who have seem to think that the DAC in the Touch has, as -Stereophile- puts it, "Class D sound." I don't find this surprising in a $300 device that on the other hand does so many other things quite well -- quite "Class B" at least, maybe even "Class A" in some respects, IMO. Guido F. -- guidof *Front End*: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge; Cambridge Azur 840C CD Player; Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player; Squeezebox Touch Music File Player (digital out to Cambridge Azur 840C DAC) *Preamps*: Conrad Johnson Motif (Phono); Adcom GFP-750 (Line) *Amps*: Music Reference RM-200 Mk II (Main); Little Tube Mk III (Phones) *Subwoofer Equalizer*: DSpeaker Antimode 8033 *Speakers*: Martin Logan SL3s; REL T1 Subwoofer *Headphones*: AKG K701 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guidof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40448 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82060 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
