bitstopjoe;625923 Wrote: > Thank you Ralph. I already have a SB Radio which I enjoy and HAD a Boom, > 3 of them in fact and all had muddy sound. Thankfully Logotech took care > of it and gave me a Touch instead. > As far as the EAD and Touch go. The EAD/Touch combo sounds better to > me than just the Touch alone. I will ask if the EAD update allows 24 > bit and if not I will have to look elsewhere. Any suggestions on a good > albeit inexpensive DAC? Or are the inexpensive ones no better than what > I have right now with the EAD ( which cost over 2k in the early 90's) > or the Touch alone?
There are several on this forum which discuss the sound of the Touch's DAC versus several different Touch/external DAC combos. I suggest you read through a couple of these threads. Unfortunately for owners of older and expensive DACs one area in audio which has undergone vast changes the past 15 to 20 years is the external DAC market. Apparently there are several under $1K DACs which can hold their own against mega-buck DACs from the 1980s and 1990s and often, due their newer designs and chip sets, are even capable then the older units, For example most newer DACs can handle the higher sampling rates (88.2kHz and above) and greater bit depth (24 bit and sometimes even 32 bit) of today's high resolution digital audio files. Just remember that most of the concerns regarding your EAD are about its inability to handle 24 bit files, which may not even be the case since the EAD may in fact be able to play 24 bit files but only using 20 bits. I would check with EAD about how your DAC handles 24 bit files. then again if you don't have any 24 bit files then you have little to worry about. -- 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
