is not the Audiolab equiped with the sabre dac and other engineering marvels making it rather resiliant against transport problems , try spdif or optical (try optical with the coax disconected the piont is to figure if galvanic isolation is good for it ) ?
i think there is a bit of hype in digital transport " differences " they once where a reality I still remeber my old DAC's and other equipment, but in the last decade it seems practically solved. Note there will always be a clique of people finding the "difference" they would still do so past the piont of perfection . so you have a modern DAC with good reputation and a good transport the Touch, so you are well engineered at both ends :) is there really an interface problem to solve ? as other said Touch seems incapable of a good async USB interface at the moment but as you have a dac with all avaible options so you can use spdif or toslink . i can't imagine that either will limit your performance Trying the Arcam in power amp mode seems interesting, try it both ways -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92112 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
