cymbop;670858 Wrote: > Klaus, I just bought you a couple of beers via Paypal. > > I had the best-ever sound in my system running 2.0. Totally relaxed > and free of artifact, grain, or digitalis. I had a friend over for a > listen and his first words were, "Oh man, it sounds like vinyl!" > > 3.0 left me a little cold at first. The sound was cleaner, but thinner > and brigher, sometimes glaring, and altogether moving away from the > moist, organic goodness I found in 2.0. I had to change PCM bandpass > filter settings on my Wyred4Sound DAC-2 from 60 to <50 (passing less > information.) I gave up and went back to 2.0 for a week. > > Yesterday I took Klaus' advice to try to implement the whole shebang. > I don't have a smartphone, so I've always used the Touch as my > controller had never implemented the screen-off mod. I do have a PC in > the room adjacent to my system, so I figured I'd try to screen-off my > Touch and use the SB Server on the PC to control playback. > > It was worth it. I got my richness back and was able to return the > DAC-2 to the 60 filter setting to keep the top-end air. > > It's funny: being able to control playback from the couch, via IR > remote to the Touch, has made me into a lazy, worthless sack of crap. > Last night I groaned at having to get up, walk 12 feet to the PC, and > select the next album. 3 months into ownership of the Touch, I'd > forgotten the era of having to walk across the living room (uphill both > ways, in the snow, I tell ya!) and manually change a silver disc > spinning in a tray. > > BONUS FINDING: When you factory-reset the Touch in order to begin the > 3.0 install, it defaults the Now Playing screen to include the VU-meter > and a cheesy realtime spectrum analyzer. Even with the screen-off mod, > the touch's processor is running the spectrum analyzer unless you turn > it off in the Settings/Screen/Now Playing menu. See if you don't > notice incremental improvement after killing them both.
Have you tried screen-off with 2.0 as well? I was like you - loved 2.0, tried 3.0, went back to 2.0. I then tried screen-off on 2.0 and noticed improvement, and then tried 3.0 with all mods applied. I still greatly prefer 2.0. -- Howard Turkster *Soft mods*: SC TT 2.0 + Dynaudio's mods *Components*: Squeezebox Touch (analog outs) - Rega Mira 3 - Boston Acoustics VR2s - Rel T2 sub, D-Link hub between touch & server *Cables*: VH Audio Spectrum (Cu) RCAs, Chord Rumour speaker wire, custom neutrik speakon cable (sub) *Power*: Touch stock power supply with SBooster filter VH Audio Flavor 4 power cable x2 (amp and sub) stock DLink power supply Porter A/C Ports *Server*: Squeezebox server on Windows 7, Core2duo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Turkster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39563 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
