Good idea with a powered hub, the Touch may have under performed if the HD used a lot of power from Touch's internal 5v . I don't know the exact design here and what it can tolerate however many external drives takes more amps than they should if they followed the USB specs :-/
I moderate my claim here * normally * they should sound the same , but I have no,idea how the analog out performs with a very high load on the USB 5v ? Btw did you make sure thatbthe volume where the same when trying the options ? And also did you use replay gain tags and squeezebox smart gain function ? To compare I would turn the squeezebox volume to 100% and don't use smart gain when comparing . Other hints: volume is digital this ok as it is in 24bits but use it in it's upper range for good sq Do try it with your XDAC :) all outputs are active at the same time spdiff ToS and analog , and volume applies to all outputs so 100% volume would be good if you want to compare to other digital sources . If the XDAC is good ,this migth be the best option :) if it has spare inputs . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96488 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
