I'm a long time user of Squeezeboxes, first SB2 and now the Touch. I only use the digital output. In my opinion, Touch sounds much better than SB2 even a bit moded (transformer balanced output, filter chokes removed and linear supply). The sound has much more details, much better soundstage and much more bass strength for the main differences. I installed the Soundcheck's software modes. Big differences again I would describe it as at least three layers of veil removed, great. The attacks of drum or guitar are much faster and soundstage and low level details are much better. But I have a problem with this new sound, the bad records which sounded bad before now sound very bad! The opposite is true for the good ones. It is a bit hard to get accustom to this new sound I don't know if somebody shares this impression but with a lot of modern Hi-end systems music is reproduced like with a magnifier, every small detail can be heard as if it was miked from inches. This does not correspond to a real live musical performance. To resume, the mods doesn't change the sound of the Touch but the result depends on the system and ones preferences BTW I do not stream FLACs as PCM because I use Inguz plug-in and it gives me much more gains than reducing Touch CPU activity. The weakest link of a system is always the room. Chris
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