JohnSwenson;609486 Wrote: > 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.
Thanks JohnSwenson, I'd run the FitPC2 with WinXP and Foobar as I already do on an old PC with the Hiface. I also use an Android remote control for Foobar. The sound is great but the PC is too noisy and power inefficient. That's the reason I'd like to replace it with Fit-PC2 and solid state disk for the OS. The idea of using the Touch came later - it would be cheaper, but would the sound be comparably good? I guess I have to get the Touch and try. I was just wondering if somebody already did it. BTW what makes you say the Touch hardware implementation is slightly better than the Hiface? Cheers -- mhaas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71347 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
