stop-spinning wrote: > I ask this because some are saying that putting a re-clocker (such as > the so called excellent ones from Empirical Audio) make a huge > improvement to the SQ of the Touch. This, to me, means that the clocks > in the SBT are not of hi-end quality so an intermediary device such a > high quality re-clocker needs to be installed to elevate the music > performance for an "audiophile" when connected to an outboard DAC. > > If this is the case, is it not cheaper to just get the clocks upgraded > inside the SBT (if necessary), because that Empirical Audio stuff is > expensive (but might be worth it I guess). > > Other than that does Async USB mean you conveniently totally bypass the > internal clocks altogether so don't need a helping hand in-between from > Empirical and the likes (if you have a good async USB DAC like the > MDAC?). > > Thanks everyone.
to provide a bit of balance to those who are happy with the sound of the unmodded touch quality wise it seems to be EA overdrive EA offramp EDO mods + reclocker - I use mf vlink 192, some have reported great things using the berkely usb/spdif EDO mods + async usb dac I have clock upgrade in my touch, not sure if the EDO mods have killed off the benefit of that upgrade though. JohnSwenson has measured the touch clocks and thought that the clock upgrade was worthwhile very few dacs have the async usb designed for SQ rather than a convenient way of getting a signal into the dac which is why reclockers work, even the new nad M51 dac benefits from an external usb/spdif over the usb input. depends on your setup and requirements, for playback into a high resolving system you may notice a difference it is a fast moving area, but not too expensive to try out different things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95573 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
