Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Digital out
*hifidan*: glad the Silflex worked out for you. It is a technically good cable, all the important things are done properly and about as well as they can be done. Some prefer fewer but larger diameter glass fibers, that's pretty much the only real argument re other premium-constructed types. I do not use my Silflex from the Touch, I slightly prefer my best coaxial cable since it is also about as technically well-done as you can get for a device having an RCA connector S/PDIF output. The Touch's Toslink output has ~4X the jitter of the coaxial output, IIRC, but many people are more susceptible to jitter than others and it is certainly not the be-all defining digital audio characteristic. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100955 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Digital out
Caad: I am "afraid" to open up and mess with my Touch's guts. I only have one and can't get another for close to a reasonable price. I really count on my Touch and value it a lot, wish I had got another, strictly as a backup because I couldn't use two of them -at the time-, but now I could... :( Though I have been an electronics hobbyist since the late '60s, and aren't afraid to mess with things in general, I have to admit that it's more difficult for me now to play with SMD stuff and really close pin spacings. I have a binocular scope etc. for doing this stuff, and I do work with "larger" SMD stuff, but I don't find it pleasant at all i.e. not a hobby thing if hobbies are meant to be fun (?? lol). hifidan: that's a pretty pricey coax cable, as they go. And a pretty cheap Toslink cable, as they go. Been a while since I used a Toslink with the Touch, but that shrill high end sounds like what I recall from plastic Tos. Just not an "easy" sound with this BDA-1/Touch interface compared to the coax (even a -much- cheaper coax cable). I think you will find glass Tos better, a more fair comparison. Still, the coax will probably be preferable to you with this DAC, you could look in the ~$50 range if the $500 one is just on trial or something, no need to go crazy, I didn't and am plenty happy with it. You could maybe ask on one of the forums about what Toslink cables were found to work decently with the BDA-1, maybe Audio Circle or such. Usually (meaning not BDA-1-specific) people just say to get a -Silflex- and be done with it if you must use Toslink for some reason. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100955 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Digital out
hifidan wrote: > Cfraser, I did the EDO update and I kept the TT3.0. I will do some > comparaison listening between the spdf and the toslink > and will let you known. Thanks for your comments . > Much appreciated. I 100% understand why you didn't remove the TT3.0, as it's a bit of a pain to reinstall. Not really that difficult though if you've been playing with it for a while and have a "system"...many/most of us here did that pre-EDO. I'm not going to say TT3.0 does nothing because IMO it does plenty, it is clearly audible when you change things (some things...) but it's so very system dependent from top to bottom that it's almost impossible to share info meaningfully. That's what we found here anyway, in effect when you boil all the arguments etc. down. :) IMO you should start from scratch and install just the EDO. I am like Mnyb in that the Touch is also a handy little Busybox Linux plaything. I have a few custom mods too; some I remember offhand are how some things appear and to get the WOL to work properly with the PCs here, little things like that but nothing significant to sonics. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100955 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Digital out
IME the BDA-1's coaxial inputs sound significantly better than the Toslink, with the Touch or anything else. Have used both, with varying grades of coaxial and Toslink cables; you should use a quality one, but don't have to get even close to ridiculous (e.g. Blue Jeans coaxial or average glass Tos is fine, you *will* hear plastic Tos). You should note that in the audiophile world Toslink is usually given attention/status below coaxial S/PDIF in almost all (more expensive) DACs. Because Toslink has been traditionally so cheaply implemented in source devices, and you can't really (externally) fix a bad source after the fact. The coaxial S/PDIF output on the Touch measures (and sounds) a lot better than you might expect from the price. BDA-1 digital inputs in order of quality: AES/EBU..coaxial..Toslink.USB. The dots represent IMO approximately relatively how far apart the quality is. :) If you have the BDA-2 then I presume the USB would be different, but on the BDA-1 it's only a last resort or for some convenience. The BDA's "metal" inputs are galvanically isolated, so the Tos doesn't even gain anything audible from that IME. But really, with all this DAC stuff, you have to try it yourself. For all I know my "custom" Touch PS is doing most of the good stuff re coax vs Tos from it. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100955 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
^ Triode was responding to me there. I'm pretty sure I also had to update the Touch's firmware to get the whole thing >96kHz to work smoothly i.e. FLAC decoding on the server; your setup is correct for that. It seems generally agreed that it's best to match the Touch FW and LMS version as best as possible, though "match" is awkward now. The latest Touch FW with the latest LMS version then, that smoothed everything out for me. I didn't do a reset of my Touch after updating the FW, something I hate doing, and all is well anyway. Good luck. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch prevents PC from sleeping / constantly wakes it up.
^ Exactly; if the network interface is integrated on the MB, the BIOS is what's controlling it. It was the growing demand/requirement for remote corporate network management that caused a lot of manufacturers to fix the WOL at the properly lowest levels of network interface, and not at the higher/easier-to-update levels like some had previously tried. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94834 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch prevents PC from sleeping / constantly wakes it up.
^ This is not always so simple. I spent a lot of time with similar probs about a year ago. Everything, and I mean everything, was set up correctly if I had access to it (I'm not new to any of this stuff). As somebody else said, the root problem turned out to be my PC's BIOS. You should know that a lot of BIOSs aren't set up to handle WOL properly in a modern network (wired in my case), so it'll never work 100% correctly. I can say that ALL the Touch-related firmware and software (incl. LMS) is not the problem, so don't waste a lot of time playing with that, just set up the obvious WOL items properly. Luckily there was an "optional" (Dell-speak for "we admit nothing") BIOS update for me that of course never mentioned that one of the things it fixed was WOL. Just saying...try to research your BIOS, and a hint (it was a year ago!, best I can remember) is to search for a pro remote network-maintenance software product that is supposed to work with your PC. If one exists for you, the manual will tell you how to set WOL up, what BIOS/settings/etc. you need. My "music server" PC wasn't mentioned, yours might be, the manual DL was free, it had generally useful to me WOL info anyways. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94834 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
snoozer wrote: > and it works very well indeed !!. Just make sure you connect the > Touch via LAN instead of Wifi, otherwise you won´t have enough bandwidth > to stream 192Kb in PCM. > > best regards > Pepe Not sure if you were responding to me, but if so, yes I did get the 192/24 PCM streaming to work just fine. I don't even have any 192/24 music files that I would normally listen to, and don't know if I'd pay extra for that over 96/24 even. But it's nice to have it working anyway, since the way the LMS and FW is now is probably as far as it's going to go, so might as well install it... It took a while to get working though, my own fault. About a year ago I had been playing with some of the kajillion settings my main router has. Probably with TT3.0 back then, something with QoS. I had left the settings as they were because it wasn't doing any harm, but at >9Mbps with 192/24 on the Touch's LAN branch, whatever I had done back then was causing issues, I don't know how, probably with the internal router processing for it. I'm trying to do too much with the router's little processor I guess. Yet it didn't affect the 10Mbps Touch Network Test results however I had it set up, which delayed me paying attention to the router setup as the possible problem cause. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
donny619 wrote: > edited > 14218 I'm using the same DAC. I assume you're using S/PDIF from the Touch. I tried the LMS nightly dated Jan. 13 and it wouldn't even play any of the 192/24 FLAC test tracks I tried (2L demos) with decoding at the server end. Never mind give 192/24 to the DAC via S/PDIF. Wanted to check those before I bought any 192/24 albums... They play fine if the FLACs are decoded on the Touch of course, that's not new. I ran the Touch's Network Test at 10Mbps again and no errors reported, so shouldn't be an ultimate bitrate problem at 192/24. Oh yeah, for some reason I forget I reverted a long time ago to EDO 0.6, I forgot that wasn't the newest version. Could that be a problem? Again: the 192/24 tracks aren't even playing, no Touch track timebar movement, no digital output at all (the Bryston DAC has this unusual feature that it won't even power on if none of its 8 digital inputs are live). Last official Touch firmware. Last LMS nightly: anybody else try it? Thanks for any insight. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
^ Thanks Triode. Are you using a late nightly of 7.8 beta? Any caveats? I don't really do any fancy or unusual things with my Touch, I just stream LPCM from FLACs and internet radio. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
I am using the last official release. Some of us were waiting for a newer version that would reportedly allow us to stream 192/24 LPCM to the Touch, rather than have the FLACs decoded by the Touch itself. I vaguely recall that some beta (?) versions could already do this. Any advice? Thanks. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
^ Have you completely rebuilt your music library lately? Have you done a music disk defrag lately? I find the first one to be quite important for LMS. I do it whenever I add a fair bit of stuff, seems to eliminate the bugs I got when I only did a scan for changes. The second one may be useful depending on how you do things. I always rip to .wav, format to taste, copy .wavs to backup disk, then delete the .wavs from the "music disk". Which means the FLAC files that are left over to play on the music disk might be physically all over the place. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
Viventis wrote: > Thank you for the information. The specs of my Onkyo 809 say I have a > 192Khz/24-bit Burr-Brown DAC. This is what the DACs are capable of with 809 "internal" signals and HDMI. It does not necessarily mean it will accept 192/24 signals via S/PDIF though, unfortunately. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
^ We are only trying to help you. Did you understand what that guy in the link was saying? Now if you had asked about a quality USB DAC that many have heard, maybe a W4S or even an Ayre (just 2 common examples), then you would have got lots of encouraging responses. Or maybe consider one of the other cheaper USB DACs the guy linked to has tried. Or find somebody else who's tried a lot in that category. Maybe the Schiit Bifrost would suit, lower cost but good performance. Really though, the DAC in the Touch isn't total rubbish, sorry if we made it sound that way, even if many of us don't use it... Make sure you are looking at *asynchronous* USB DACs if you are looking for improved sonics with EDO. Most of the very cheap ones aren't, or it's not well/reliably done. Otherwise you are better off with S/PDIF with the Touch. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
^ Cool link. It sounds MUCH worse in every way than what's built into the Touch, so why bother? If somebody is new to external DACs, they should know that there are plenty of them in the under-few-hundred-$ range that *are* worse than what's in the Touch. External does not equal better, necessarily. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
BodieBill wrote: > > Two questions: > (1) Can this be a problem with the DAC (in spite of its 24/192 > compatibility), or am I doing something wrong with the app > installation/settings? > (2) Should I de-install the app or not? I am asking because I remember > there was mention in this thread that the app also affects 44, 88 and 96 > playback in a positive way. > > Thanks for all advice! I think your DAC is OK for 192/24, so that shouldn't be it. Did you read the posts just above yours? It may not seem related, but could be. You must be playing FLAC, and it must be decoded on the Touch. This is *not* what many people prefer; many decode on the server, and play WAVs for example. So check that stuff; if you had been using TT3.0 before you may have changed decoding to on the server, which won't work with 24/192, so need to set it back to the Touch. Good luck with it, you're almost there, it really does work! cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
What do "large" etc. mean numerically, as implemented, in the buffer option settings? Somehow I thought we'd be able to set it manually or choose among some specific size options (as a subset of each main option). Not saying it'll matter here with EDO, but it certainly does matter with some "other" software. Thanks. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Audio quality issue
For pretty high quality internet radio sound, try Radio Paradise OGG 192kbps, or their 192kbps MP3 (get album pics/song title with this, but not with OGG which IMO sounds a tad nicer). You'll need to use LMS for the OGG. Are you using the analog outputs? If so, maybe you got the R and L crossed? But it's funny you mentioned the "out of phase" sound. I thought I was hearing that a couple of days ago, everything sounded out of focus, vocals not centered, etc. I still can't say what it is as I didn't do anything different. It's always possible that things are screwed up at the "broadcast" source, this is not uncommon even with very large outfits. With smaller IR ones, they may not notice for ages or until someone tells them, after all they could be based in somebody's bedroom... cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95150 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
Sorry for the dumb Q, but how do we tell what EDO version we're running? It seems to "update" whenever I select that option, so it doesn't check what I already have. I'm just curious if I have the latest version, the server problem had me wondering about that. Thanks. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Ok. Please make me aware of the proper way to get artwork to display properly.
Well, I also use 500x500 art which I scan myself. I embed the art in every single track it applies to, so if I copy tracks here or there at home I don't have to be concerned. I limit the size of art to 30KB usually, 40KB if it's "complicated", 60KB if it's really complicated (not common with current releases). A trivial amount of space when tunes are 10s of MB each. I've never had an issue with the SBT displaying it. But you must be a bit careful of the "advanced" settings re your library. And you probably should re-scan your whole library every so often...at least I do. The SBT can make the crappiest art look not so bad. Using iPeng, crap art that looks fine on the SBT looks like real crap, almost illegible. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94840 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
Why is it that people always have to have ONE answer to everything? Must be something we're kind of taught or brought up with (I won't go to the R-word place), there's certainly no logic to it or demonstration of it in nature. I mean really, how trivially simple and fast is it to remove/re-install TT3 on the fly? The feature is built-in. Or this EDO too, if you don't like it? People have gone to the trouble to give us *options*, at no cost too. Take it like an educated adult and quit whinging. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.7.2 digital clock screensaver when in standby
Mnyb wrote: > I do understand that a screensaver such as now playing is not expected > to work wo server :) but showing the clock ? If there is no server or internet connection the SBT can't know the time, so it doesn't display it. This is the scenario of powering on without that access, for those who completely kill the power to the SBT (and maybe a router) when not using. I don't think this is helpful...but just mentioning as it's something I run into. :) cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94601 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Linear Power Supplies
^ This why I suggested something cheap to test the waters, before going way out. There is a fairly well-known DAC that is generally used with battery power. I am not the only one who thought it sounded best with a switching PS over a linear PS or different types of batteries (JIC it made a diff), IIRC the designer does too. So you never know... A lot depends on your local power situation, outside and inside your room, besides the rest of your system and your own taste. An honest audiophile tosses tweaks that don't work *for them*. A "dishonest" one doesn't, keeps them because they were expensive and maybe pretty lol. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82648 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Linear Power Supplies
beetof wrote: > Yes, smoother, quieter, more relax, I recognize that. But did you notice > a difference in attack (of, say, a piano)? Sorry, I couldn't say, not something I specifically compared, I don't listen to much piano either. I can say that lack of transient response is one of the main reasons I have for rejecting stuff. Makes music sound dull/unexciting. (It is one aspect of my mini rant re typical op-amps in audio circuitry.) cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82648 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
cfraser wrote: > Has anybody mentioned (or even found) that when set up for USB DAC that > the "now playing" display for internet radio can get totally out of sync > with what's playing? The audio is correct though. Triode wrote: > Don't see what would cause this as the changes are completely unrelated > to the squeezeplay application or display code. I suspect this is > unrelated. I have not been able to duplicate the effect. It was minor but persistent the other day. But you seem to be a perfectionist so I thought it might tweak a thought. It might have been from the various rebootings etc. from me changing output options, I forget...no worry. Thanks for your work, very neatly done etc., I like to see that in software. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
Has anybody mentioned (or even found) that when set up for USB DAC that the "now playing" display for internet radio can get totally out of sync with what's playing? The audio is correct though. I realise IR is not what this hi-res app is meant for, but I do use IR a lot and thought my crappy (USB-wise) DAC sounded pretty good with it, considering. Possibly people with good USB DACs might notice the same anomaly, it's not always like that, just sometimes it goes there. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] 7.7.2 digital clock screensaver when in standby
It happened to me too. I usually have my screen disabled, but when I turned the screen on the other day, no clock in standby (this is the only time I have a "screensaver" enabled). It was there when I updated to 7.7.2, but may not have survived the first subsequent power cycle. I also noticed when I installed the "Enhanced digital output" app the standby clock seemed to have returned. This is hardly a solution, just sayin' and commisseratin'... cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94601 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
SBGK wrote: > Also, has anyone compared the quality of your mods via usb dac and via > sp/dif to dac ie if I get an asynchronous usb dac will it sound even > better ? You cannot do that at this point. You must choose the USB DAC (or the USB input) and leave it connected/selected. Though I read what triode said, this point did not make an "impact" until I tried it... cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput
Seems to work with the Bryston BDA-1 DAC. Without the no-hub workaround. I am also happy that your app doesn't kill the ability of the SBT to charge a PS3 controller lol [I think every device in my HT room has USB port(s), yet only the PS3 and SBT will charge them]. I cannot see why anyone would actually *use* this DAC with USB input, unless extremely desperate (which equates to the amount of effort Bryston put into it, I guess their soothsayers were not up to par). cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94512 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Linear Power Supplies
^ I'd say it's generally smoother, and a bit quieter. It has been so long since I did my PS comparisons though, I can't remember the details right now, but I did post them in one of the "Audiophile" forum linear PS threads (maybe look for one I started, I'd guess last summer). Background sonic quietness, the sense that the music is coming out of "pure" blackness, is the one area that the SBT can't touch (pretty cheap...) my best CD transport (via AES/EBU rather than S/PDIF) into the same DAC. I have to say that balanced power (BP) makes more diff here than the linear PS did (pretty typical when applied to sources). And I tried a bunch of them, nothing fancy though. And I won't plug anything with switching PSs into my BP supply permanently, don't want to pollute it lol. So a linear PS wasn't really an option for me, unless I stop being a silly audiophile... I have even run the SBT on a tightly regulated 6VDC, and it was fine. Then I tried a "6VDC" wall-wart, one rated for 600mA so its voltage at 400mA continuous draw wouldn't be too high (ones rated for higher current may put out 8-10V at low loads). This was fine too. Both of these were noticeably better than the stock switcher, and not much different than the "fancy" more proper PS I use. I am not recommending either of these BTW, I only did it because they are common items that I already had (6VDC is much more common for "adapters" than 5VDC) and I wanted to see the effect before I built something "better" or at least more permanent (and with a power switch). Also bear in mind I am doing my "serious" listening through a system that has no op-amps in the audio circuits, and after the SBT is truly balanced (not balanced added on to single-ended). It is a VERY quiet system, BP sure helps that. I hear every little tiny thing, even when I don't want to... When I feed the SBT into my Denon AVR, like I'm listening to now, most of the HW/SW changes I've made/tried with the SBT have little to no sonic effect as far as I can tell. The preamp output cicuitry (cheap op-amps) of the AVR (and it's no bottom-liner either) is just too hazy and obscuring to be satisfying for me, but OK for background listening. Just saying that YMMV depending what the SBT feeds, so start slow/cheap (like I did with the adapters) before you go hog wild and then find out it makes little diff for all the effort. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82648 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Linear Power Supplies
What's John's opinion of multiple regulators in series? For my convenience I built my linear PS with stuff I had. Hammond 4.8A dual-bobbin xfmr (I really like them!), Schottky diodes, LT1086 variable reg, Panny FCs. No choke (see [ ] below), but resonance control on the xfmr. That is the main PS, which is set to put out 7VDC. Second stage is a local regulator stuffed into a very tiny box which sits about 3" from the SBT, same regulating parts as the main PS. Allows me to put the larger main PS pretty much anywhere convenient. [It's not totally relevant to this particular discussion, but the PS is fed from balanced power which requires a certain physical placement which is nowhere near where my SBT is.] My SBT only draws about 0.4A (2W) pretty much continuously, so nothing gets very warm. That said, the switcher included with the SBT is quite decent IMO for the wall-wart switcher genre, much much better than many others I have. cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82648 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Any way to see all my Picture tags in my FLAC files?
Some have multiple pics for whatever reason, usually for some good additional info where another jpg was the best/quickest way. Thanks. -- cfraser cfraser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48869 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90424 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
