Dave (Northumberland);569577 Wrote: > I had a demo of a Naim Dac and a Cyrus Dac XP with my Touch. The Naim > killed the Cyrus across the board but no surprise as its more money > without the pre built in. > > Both these dacs were out of my price range really and I was only having > a listen out of curiosity of what the Touch would sound like through > them. I was also comparing the Touch to a Niam HDX both running through > the Naim dac and the Touch wasn't miles away from the HDX (pleasant > surprise). > > The thing that struck me though was the Naim dac could play direct from > a USB port on the front, which is probably a better method of playback > that any external source from a purely audio perspective. There is no > screen and only play pause and skip forward and back controls so a bit > hard if you had a lot of music on one stick. I am now thinking of > having about 10 small USB sticks with my rotating current favourite > records on that I could swap and play direct on the dac and then also > have the Touch there as a more expanded catalogue. By avoiding the need > to upgrade from a Touch to a better source (by using direct usb pen > drives) I could then push my dac budget up to the Naim dac. > > Is this a mad plan, any thoughts on this welcome.
What is the rest of your system like? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72018 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
