magiccarpetride;596144 Wrote: > The reason is that DACs are notorious for needing a lot of burn in > time. <snip> I can't say I've run into that particular bit of notoriety before.
The only problem with that theory is you'll basically never be able to compare two pieces of equipment. The advocates of whichever piece of gear loses the competition will be able to state that theirs had the wrong number of hours on it. If it has 50, it should have been 100. If 100, it should have been 200. The debate is endless. It's stuff like this that led me to happily surrender my audiophile card. In my case, the Lavry had a couple of years on it. The Touch I kept was just out of the box and only had 25 or 30 hours on it at the conclusion of my comparison. (Of course that brings up another aspect of burn-in I find interesting - things only ever get better - never worse.) I think the main point to the original poster is that he should try the analog outs of the Touch before rushing to spend money on an external DAC. His choice should not be the subject of a vote by others. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83976 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
