There was a fair bit of discussion after the Touch's release (and even before release once the secret was out and beta testers could discuss it on the forums) about the comparative quality of the SB3/Classic digital outs and the Touch's. A lot of people, including some whose opinions I respect a great deal, concluded that the Touch's digital outs are better than the SB3's. You're right that the SB's DAC doesn't enter into the picture, but the explanation given was that the Touch has a "cleaner" (I think that was the main operative word) signal path from data input to digital output.
Whether you can hear that difference with your ears and your music on your system in your listening room is a separate question. To put it in terms of the question in the thread title, I suspect that for most people it would not make "much" difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96868 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
