cfraser wrote: > ^ Cool link. It sounds MUCH worse in every way than what's built into > the Touch, so why bother? If somebody is new to external DACs, they > should know that there are plenty of them in the under-few-hundred-$ > range that *are* worse than what's in the Touch. External does not equal > better, necessarily.
There are several in the multi k$$$ department too for example anything audionote or other brands that abandoned science and trust in voodo instead ( no the silver wiring won't help if the product has 1000 times more noise and distortion than a Walmart DVD player ) . There are two main ways to fleece the audiophile by expectational bias . Trust completely in placebo , the product is often ok but indistinguishable from other such products in controlled tests but it has good data, but sales is propelled by cosmetics heavy chassis and expensive looks etc , the audiophile fills in the dot's in their head. Make it sound *different* this is to often perceived as better , beware . Look out for to many buzzwords about about musicality and how the product not have any " digital glare " :P . Just because triode have made Touch work with a much vider selection of DAC's than previously , does not make it worthwhile in every case , just beware in you DAC shopping go for technically competent designs, like the popular M-dac . Things like the nuforce DAC turns arguments on it's head in the sound quality treads in the audiophile forum . Note that many including me uses arguments that you " normally " should not be able to perceive a difference because of [ x ] But audiophile land is filled with products that " makes " those differences happen ? But the cause may not be the one you expect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
