stop-spinning;604907 Wrote: > OK so in summary > > Any point in trying to lessen the load inside the SB by turning of the > Wi-Fi etc when you are using an External DAC? Because thinking about it > 'most' of the load inside an SB is surely taken up by the processing and > conversion of the SB DAC - so if you hand that off to an external DAC - > resources aren't quite so hungry within them plastic walls, and close > proximity interference (again with Wi-Fi etc) using the on-board SB DAC > is also set aside to hopefully a more competent well designed purpose > built audiophile DAC of sorts. > > Let's just use the SB as a solid state transport, likely to be better > than any reference Teac VRDS or Pioneer Stable Platter mechanism, with > the added convenience of music streaming aplenty.
To answer your second point, a Touch will outperform even very expensive SOTA disc-spinners as a s/pdif transport from an audio perspective IME. As for convenience - this is simply no contest! Regarding your first point... things aren't quite as simple as that. Again, in my experience, the "take the load off the Touch processor" mods really don't have any effect on the quality of the s/pdif output - at least not an effect that results in any audible improvement in what comes out of my DAC(s). I've spent many, many hours listening. The mods do appear to have some small - but real - effect on the analogue outputs of the Touch. I can even measure it! They certainly produce a "difference". The consensus is that the "difference" is an "improvement". I will publish these results later in the week. Actually, the processor is used mostly for handling tasks that are common to both analogue and digital output. However, the circuit design of the Touch and nature of modern DAC's is such that any additional "noise" from the cpu/ram is bound to have a very much lower and very different impact on an external DAC vs the close-coupled, non galvanically-isolated internal one. Having said all that, it should be clear that some DACs will be much more tolerant than others of both incoming jitter and "noise". There are too many variables to be categoric about most of this. -- 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=84903 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
