Thanks John, that really clarifies things.
Oh well, guess I'll have to be content with digital coax out to my
Benchmark, until I upgrade to a new-and-improved DAC down the road.
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sleepysurf
main system: touch > benchmark dac-1 > conrad-johnson ct-5 preamp and
premier 350 amp > ml summits.
sleepysurf;575936 Wrote:
> I realize the main- tweak- is just -getting- USB output. However, in
> your review, you infer there were other associated "tweaks," namely
> defeating all other outputs. So, I'm just wondering how much "better"
> the S/PDIF output could theoretically be if the Toslink
Kal Rubinson;575926 Wrote:
> Not a "(tweaked) USB output." Getting any USB output is the tweak. It
> was great that way because of the wonderful Ayre DAC. When my Meridian
> 861v4 is upgraded to v6 with apodizing, I expect it to be competitive
> via S/PDIF.
I realize the main- tweak- is just
Thanks for the mention of this review. My copy of the magazine was in
the mail along with Stereophile. Since I'd been looking forward to
Kal's Stereophile review, I hadn't even opened HT.
It's always nice to read another favorable review of a product that you
own!
--
R Johnson
sleepysurf;575905 Wrote:
> Ditto.
>
> However, I'm curious why the (tweaked) USB output capability exceeded
> digital coax, and if the same tweaks might be implemented for S/PDIF as
> well (which is how I'm feeding my Benchmark DAC). Regardless, looks
> like the "sky is the limit" with this l
krochat;575837 Wrote:
> Nice job on the review Kal!
>
> Except now you'll have to hang out in the Audiophile forum here to help
> folks hook up their USB DACs :-)
>
> Did you try the touch with a USB hard drive and were just too nice to
> mention the issues?
>
> Nice one,
> KimI ran it with a
It was very nice to find the new issue of Stereophile in my mailbox
Friday evening. An excellent review, Kal! I share your enthusiam for
this device, and I'll "never look back."
JA's measurements and comments were good to see as well. I'm just
using the analog outputs, so I guess there's an e
http://zzzone.net/files/touch_review_Home_Theater_1010.pdf
The reviewer, David Vaughn, gave the Touch a "Home Theater Top Pick"
distinction.
This was included in an issue where all the other equipment was $5000
or more. The video projector reviewed (Titan II 3D) goes for
$80,000+.
He didn't me
I'm using a Touch attached to a 1TB USB drive. I'm using FLAC and also
sometimes controlling the Touch with Squeeze Commander on my Android
phone.
Almost everything is working quite well, but I'm getting inconsistent
results re album art. I have downloaded album art into each album
folder and nam
I am using the internal server of the touch, so I think this is
TinySC!?
I was already afraid that the picture show is too much for the Touch,
but on the other hand it's sold with USB and internal server and
diashow possibility, so I thought it should be possible...
When reading others posts her
krochat;575837 Wrote:
> Nice job on the review Kal!
> ...
Ditto.
However, I'm curious why the (tweaked) USB output capability exceeded
digital coax, and if the same tweaks might be implemented for S/PDIF as
well (which is how I'm feeding my Benchmark DAC). Regardless, looks
like the "sky is
Well, me asking for this not to turn into an arguement about power cords
has well and truly gone out the window. But, I must say, the opinions I
have just read are the best I have ever seen on the discussion of power
cords. Excellent.
--
Flashgordon400
--
Hello,
I am gutted to say that I noticed a white line across the screen
tonight on my SB Touch so I turned it off and then on again and the
screen then went fuzzy and bright white almost like all of the colours
were inverted like a negative. All the controls were still functioning.
After 5 mins
wildgoose;575534 Wrote:
> This morning I power cycled the Touch (to activate the Android font I
> installed for Chinese text that was wiped out by the reset).
I think that might be a problem right there. The unit would not boot up
every time I've upgraded firmware while FreeSans.ttf and
FreeSans
I've had a mixed experience with homeplugs, I use a set to connect my
server upstairs to the router which is downstairs however I experience
rebuffering problems and if I transfer a file on the network whilst
playing music the streaming is impacted - general file transfer is
painfully slow.
I'm a
Covenant;575854 Wrote:
> I connect wirelessly to my Touch (computer upstairs, Touch downstairs).
> I sometimes get rebuffering problems so would like to connect through a
> cable.
> Homeplugs seem to have come down in price but they vary in transfer
> rates-is 85Mbps sufficient or should I go fo
Covenant;575854 Wrote:
>
> Homeplugs seem to have come down in price but they vary in transfer
> rates-is 85Mbps sufficient or should I go for a 300Mbps version?
I've had good luck with the ActionTec MegaPlug A/V 200 (mbs) - pretty
much everything in the house, including 2 Touchs, are wired up
I'm not following the "Now Playing" problem. You just touch the screen
and the Now Playing screen scrolls through a number of different
views.
If you mean setting/saving/altering player settings on the Touch via
the SBS > Settings UI, this is by design.
The legacy players (SB2/3, Boom, Receiver)
Covenant;575854 Wrote:
> I connect wirelessly to my Touch (computer upstairs, Touch downstairs).
> I sometimes get rebuffering problems so would like to connect through a
> cable.
> Homeplugs seem to have come down in price but they vary in transfer
> rates-is 85Mbps sufficient or should I go fo
I connect wirelessly to my Touch (computer upstairs, Touch downstairs).
I sometimes get rebuffering problems so would like to connect through a
cable.
Homeplugs seem to have come down in price but they vary in transfer
rates-is 85Mbps sufficient or should I go for a 300Mbps version?
--
Covenan
Nice job on the review Kal!
Except now you'll have to hang out in the Audiophile forum here to help
folks hook up their USB DACs :-)
Did you try the touch with a USB hard drive and were just too nice to
mention the issues?
Nice one,
Kim
--
krochat
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Hello all.
Bought my first Touch a week ago, and I'm still unable to change 'Now
playing'. When entering settings, all possibilities are checked... I
uncheck the ones I don't want, go back, and when reentering the
settings, everything's checked again?!
Also... from Sqeezebox Server (latest versi
M_Meyer;575811 Wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using my Touch with attached USB drive.
> It contains 28GB Music files and 90GB Photos, both in separate
> subfolders.
>
> My problem is that the diashow can be started, but after it runs some
> minutes, it can't be stopped - it simply runs forever, the men
Hi all,
I am using my Touch with attached USB drive.
It contains 28GB Music files and 90GB Photos, both in separate
subfolders.
My problem is that the diashow can be started, but after it runs some
minutes, it can't be stopped - it simply runs forever, the menu never
appears, even "switch off" vi
My r9009 update to my Touch was effortless and flawless.
Touch using TinySC via SD card, without any intervention from myself
(beyond selecting Update Firmware), every subsequent step was
automatic.
- downloaded fine from MySB
- installed fine
- restarted fine
- fetched, downloaded, installed
Furry;575781 Wrote:
> Is this (full reset) what we're normally expected to do when upgrading
> firmware, or is this a deficiency? The way the unit itself works
> suggests it isn't the normal procedure, and I've never found it
> necessary to do this before.
No, it's not normally required to do a
I can see what the OP means. I went from a Classic to the Touch and find
the Touch less readable from my couch (about 4 meters).
I would accept it, were it not that there seems to be room enough on
the display to support a larger font so it would be really usuable to
give users the option to go f
Furry;575696 Wrote:
> I have not tried a full reset yet, because it's a pain and I don't
> really see why I should have to, although I'm beginning to think I'll
> have to try that after all.
I did do a full reset (after which I had to re-enter WiFi and local
server logon details), and this appea
wildgoose;575749 Wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance. Are we saying with a low-end power-cord, the Touch
> can potentially output the wrong 0s and 1s? Or are we talking about
> amplifiers/receivers?
>
> Are there checksums in the SPDIF signal? What happens IF some of the 1s
> and 0s do get flipped?
>
i got the prompt yest to upgrade so did so, since then when my unit
turns off it just goes to a blank screen, no nice clock feature from
before, i have gone into screensavers and re selected it but with no
look - so when off it just has a blank black screen, if i touch the
screen the little on ico
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