Thank you John, for your careful listening tests. If I read you correctly, it seems that your recent FLAC tests seem to favour the use of the Touch in standalone mode with TinySC :
JohnSwenson;485927 Wrote: > > Next I tried from TinySC. This is just flac since it does not support > wav and TinySC does not do transcoding, so the same FLAC procesing is > going on as when streaming FLAC from the external SBS. Interestingly > enough this sounded slightly better than the FLAC from SBS, but not > nearly as good as the PCM from SBS. Its was similar to the FLAC from SBS > but had just a little more subtlety and "sparkle". > But in a previous test in another thread, you seemed to judge the audio quality a bit compromized with the internal server: JohnSwenson;481447 Wrote: > You CAN run a USB DAC over a USB hub, I have done it. I have also run > the USB DAC AND a USB drive on the hub using the internal server. It > does WORK but the sound quality suffers. > > So whether you run off the internal server or over a network depends on > how much of an audiophile you are and how much you value the internal > server capability. > > A good USB DAC used with a networked server sounds very good, its not > quite as good with the internal server. (its not so much the hub, but > the extra load on the processor) > > John S. So, am I missing something, or did your recent test made you change your opinion about the audio quality of the Touch with the internal server vs an external server ? -- rotho ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rotho's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33493 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70979 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
