aubuti;609317 Wrote: > No need to be crude, even if you do insert little ** > > Some people say turning off the screen makes no difference to the > audio. > > Some people say that turning off the screen (and turning off a lot of > other things on the Touch, like wifi, multiple outputs, onboard > decoding, etc) lightens the processing load on the Touch and therefore > the Touch does a better job of processing the audio. > > Some people say they have no idea why turning off the screen would make > a difference, but they don't care and just think it sounds better. > > There are probably other camps, but those are the main constituencies. > > There is much discussion of this in other forum threads, and this is > the main one at present: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 > > Finally, it's easy to try and decide for yourself.
Well said, Aubuti! Now, last night Mrs. rgro and I did about a 1/2 hour of A/B listening. We used a 24/96 track of Dianna Krall's. With abolutely nothing else changing, we went back and forth (though this cannot be done instantaneously) between screen on and screen off. The difference is subtle, at most, though we're going to try some more, today. FWIW, Mrs. rgro was able to identify the screen off mode in a couple of blind tests....said there was more clarity...almost as if the screen-on tracks had a bit more of a muffled sense in comparison to screen off. This is somewhat contrary to whatever occurred before (per my original post) where the SQ differences were, on the order of things, fairly striking. BUT...as I pointed out, we did a bunch of stuff mostly in one fell swoop. Along with the other stuff, when we did all of the soundcheck mods, we did them en masse (except the screen-off). Which, of course, makes me wonder if it was much easier to resolve and hear the effects of a number of cumulative changes as opposed to being able to hear and resolve the effect of just the one specific mod, cable change, ethernet, etc. (probably stating the obvious, but...). -- rgro Rick System information ------------------------ Main: PS Audio Quintet > Touch (wired) > CA DacMagic > Marantz PM8003 > VA Mozart Grands > REL Acoustics R305. Home Theatre: SBR (Wired) > Pioneer VSX 919 > Energy Take 5 Classic 5.1. SBS 7.5.3 r31815 running on a Vortexbox Appliance, V 1.7. Touch w/Hardware V.5. Touch: FW 7.5.3 r9283. Duet: FW 67. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85449 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
