SBGK wrote: > The bits don't magically move from the ouside the Touch, into the Touch > and then out of the Touch. At it's heart is a little computer that has > to make millions of decisions a second about what task it is going to do > next and what resource to allocate to that task. Out of the box the > Touch is trying to do lots of multimedia type things eg checking the > screen brightness 500 times a second, with TT3.0 and other optimisations > the Touch is made to focus more on allocating those resources to the > movement of bits from input to output buffers. So, in reality it is just > tuning a computer, the same as non Touch users have to tune their > servers to get the best sound out. It's not crypto engineering, it's > just most people don't understand what the Touch is doing.
SBGK why don't you do the following: Introduce a quality Asynchronous USB to SPDIF converter that is compatible with the EDO applet. You'll basically be taking all these supposed issues with your server and touch completely out of the picture. Asynchronous means it won't matter what the touch is doing, the data will get delivered via USB as needed and the device will completely reclock the data prior to sending it to your DAC. If there are any issue with USB data delivery to the device, there simply isn't any audio, no second guessing. If there is audio it's been perfectly reclocked. Galvanized isolation at the USB port leaves the ground plane noise that might be created by the touch at the touch. They comes in true 75 ohm BNC and RCA format. There are many options, some even have lower stock jitter numbers than the touch. Just have to make sure they are standard Class 2 USB Audio devices and work with linux natively. You could then take your Touch and unwrap it from it's tinfoil, remove it from the sandwich container, turn the screen back on, put it back togethor. Can you imagine? You could un-castrate your server and let it do other things. Best of all you can just listen to the music and not be willy nilly changing random parameters all day long. Just a suggestion, for your sanity and maybe just a little bit of ours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
