Neither the Hiface nor the Musiland will work with Linux. If you are going to use a fitpc2 I would not use anything other than linux.
I've just been playing with a HRT Music Streamer II on the Touch (an async interface) and its still very Dependant on whats going on in the computer. I personally do not like the Musiland, I think the Hiface is much better. The Touch hardware implementation is slightly better than the Hiface. The problem here is that S/PDIF receivers vary wildly, whats going to work best is the one that matches your receiver the best not necessarily the one that is technically the "best". You can have two S/PDIF transmitters, number one has lower jitter than number 2, but number 2 can actually sound better because it has a better impedance match to your receiver. If all receiver REALLY had a true 75 ohm input impedance this would be a slam dunk, but its not, they vary all over the place. So unfortunately the only way to do this is to try a whole bunch of different things and find out what sounds best to you. Personally I would just go with the Touch digital out and hope for the best. You can also try soundcheck's mods, in some situations they do help the digital outs. I have done a lot of testing different computers (and Touch) with USB out, primarily with a EMU 0404, and found the fitpc slim to be the best. The Fitpc2 was not as good as the slim. The best results were with the slim running netjack2. It was slightly better than running off the Touch. All this was before soundcheck's mods. I'll have to try all this again with the Streamer II. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71347 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
