Stilly77;669073 Wrote: > Unfortunately the DAC borrowing isn't an option. > > My Pioneer has a higher spec'd Burr-Brown DAC than the Touch and with > its' implementation produces excellent audio on the analogs, much > better than the Touch even after the cap mod. Lossless streaming to the > Touch is inferior vs. it's CD counterpart on the Pioneer. The AKM is > great, just not better. > > I am wondering if switching to digital and a higher resolution DAC > would bring me closer to the audio of the Pio. Would something like a > low cost uDAC-2 connected by coax do the trick ???
If borrowing a DAC is not an option, then your choices are narrow ones. I tend to agree with SW that you're not likely to achieve SQ similar to that of your Pioneer via a uDAC-2. You want a DAC at least equivalent in performance to that of the Pio. If you go the external DAC route, you may want to try an optical connection. In my case, for instance, Toslink resulted in sound superior to that of coax. Of course, this may or may not be true in your system. Regards, Guido F. -- guidof MUSIC ROOM: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge -> Conrad Johnson Motif preamp Oppo BDP--83 Universal Player; Squeezebox Touch (digital out) -> Cambridge Azur 840C DAC -> Adcom GFP-750 preamp -> Music Reference RM-200 Mk II amp -> Martin Logan SL3 speakers DSpeaker Antimode 8033 equalizer -> REL T1 Subwoofer BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch (analog out) -> Little Dot Mk III amp -> AKG K701 headphones SECOND BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch -> Grado SR125 headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guidof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40448 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
