Finally, after doing some major rearrangement in my house last night, I
was able to set the ethernet connectivity into my Touch. Once I did
that, I ssh-ed (is that a verb?) into the Touch and applied
Soundcheck's tt --wlan command. What that command does is kill the
wireless router inside the Touch. Kills it dead!

Man, I know I'm gonna get a lot of flak (and who knows, maybe even some
lossless FLAC?) for saying this, but what an amazing improvement! True,
there is some expectation bias at play here, I was indeed expecting
some improvements, but THIS MUCH? Come on!

Suddenly, the music started feeling more natural, less strenuous. Many
previously never heard details emerged clear as a day. The glare and
harshness got reduced even more, and now I'm able to easily follow
quieter instruments behind the louder, more brash ones. Same applies to
vocals and the background choirs.

Speaking of choirs, it is now such joy to listen to choral music, to be
able to clearly discern each and every individual human voice in the
mass of voices.

Switching back to wireless immediately confirmed my findings. The glare
increases, the details recede into the background, the increased strain
is palpable. Switch back to disabling the wi fi, and things just relax,
and the music pours out of the speakers effortlessly.

My only explanation is that the wireless component inside the Touch
must be quite noisy, thus polluting the digital signal somehow. Because
the differences during the listening tests are undeniable.

I would have to say that of all the Soundcheck's mods, this one offers
the most dramatic improvements in terms of sound quality. If you were
to do just one mod, this should be the mod to do!


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