bitstopjoe;625808 Wrote: > So far seems to sound ok, but then my audio ears arent what they used to > be 20 or so years ago! Had a real high end system back then. I had to > take some old Mirage SM-2.5 speakers out of mothballs to use with an > old NAD 3120 ( pre out only) to the Mod Squad Passive. Of course the > foam around the woofers had crumbled to dust. Luckily I found a place > in Florida who sells re-foaming kits and I did that prior to getting > the Touch. > So far so good. I did what you said and set the Touch volume to 100% > and adj it via the Mod Squad ( yep I remember to lower the volume first > :)prior to using the DAC.. > There is a place who updates the EAD but not sure if they make it 24 > bit but they do make it able to play HDCD ( is that the same??). > http://www.nobleelectronics.net/index.html > Not cheap and with what I am using now I am not sure I would hear any > difference. I do notice the imaging loses some focus, so it MIGHT > help. > So as far as the cables go.. Woould you get a Glass Toslink ( about > $25 on Amazon)? A digital coax ( less than $10 on Amazon)? Or keep > trying to find a ST to Toslink adapter ( if there is such an animal)? > > Thank you for your advice by the way...
Hi Joe and welcome the world of streaming digital audio! While there is a bit of learning curve involved in getting the optimal set up for a streaming digital audio system the final result is well worth the effort. To answer some of your questions: HDCD playback is not the same thing as 24 bit playback. HDCD is propriety encoding method which is supposed to give one the equivalent of 20 bit playback from a 16 bit file. There are several programs which will preserve the HDCD encoding when ripping a CD to a lossless digital audio file (wav, flac, etc.), such as dbPowerAmp. The touch's digital output will transmit the HDCD to a HDCD enabled DAC. As far as which cable to use, go with either an inexpensive coax or optical cable. Both work great with the Touch. Finally before you spend any money upgrading your EAD I would spend some time listening to the Touch via the analog outputs and comparing that to the Touch-EAD combo. If you still feel that the Touch-EAD combo is superior to the Touch's analog outputs then look at upgrading the EAD. However if the upgrade does not include playback of 24 bit files then just get a new DAC. High resolution files (24 bit/ 88.2 or 96 kHz) are the future of high quality audio playback and the Touch fully supports these hi-rez files. You will not be disappointed. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87075 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
