magiccarpetride;609382 Wrote: > If you follow the steps I'm going to outline below, you will easily > achieve high end audiophile performance on a shoestring budget: > > 1. Order Beresford Caiman DAC > (http://www.beresford.me/PP/Caiman__DAC.html); it will cost you £179.99 > (only $290.00). But before you do that, call Stan Beresford (the genius > behind this amazing DAC, and ask him to Gatorize it for ya (he'll know > what you mean). For additional $50.00, it will be well worth the > effort, because Gatorized Caiman is a ferocious DAC that can compete > shoulder to shoulder with many $2,000+ DACs I've listened to. > > 2. Order Logitech Squeezebox Touch ($300.00). > > 3. Connect your Touch to the Caiman DAC. > > 4. Follow the instructions on this page to the letter: > http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/2011/01/soundchecks-squeezebox-touch-toolbox-20.html > > 5. Lastly, follow the instructions on this page: > http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/2011/01/soundchecks-tt-beta-blog.html > > Voila! For approximately $700.00, and some additional fiddling with the > mods, you'll have a digital player that can easily compete with Linn > Akurate ($8,000 retail). In my opinion, modded Touch fed into Gatorized > Caiman can almost outperform these $5,000+ plus players. All you need to > top it off is a good digital coaxial cable, and a decent pair of analog > interconnects, and no one will be able to wipe the wide idiotic grin > off your face. > > As far as unmodded Touch goes, even then you'll notice drastic > improvement in the sound quality, compared to the Duet. I know, I've > been myself through all these upgrades. Started with Duet, ordered > Caiman DAC, then moved to Touch, modded the Touch, and now I'm sitting > in the audio nirvana land.
MGC, I miss the subjective phrases like "I hear" and "preferable sound" that I've seen you use in other posts! This one comes across a bit factual when this is a subjective matter, to my mind. However, after reading your post I look forward to hearing a Caiman DAC at some point, hopefully. Cheers, Darren -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB3, SB Touch SqueezeControl for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84903
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