Hi everyone, first post. Been lurking here from sometimes, as I had a Squeezebox Classic, but my desktop is a well-spec'ed PC with matching power hunger, and I do not like the idea to let the thing on all day for listening music. So I was interested in the Touch, and eventually bought it 4 days ago. It would be ideal to use a portable HD (WD passport 320 GB), since I already had that and used it for my music library backup anyway. But reading the posts here I was afraid it was not going to work, because it is powered by the USB. However, it works quite nice, after some small initial problems. I use a Russ Andrews Squeezepak as PS, that I had bought for the Classic). Yesterday I was curious if the PS still made a difference with the sound on the Touch as it did on the Classic, so I installed the standard PS; guess what happened? The HD was no longer recognized by the Touch, no matter what I did. Re-inserting the Squeezepak restored things. So the conclusion seems to be that the PS can also help to get a portable HD going, though I would not advice to take the gamble, since you still have the chance that it would not work.
I also compared the Classic and the Touch (both SPDIF connected to an Audio-GD Reference5 DAC with FLAC files). Sound quality wise the difference is clearly noticable, the Classic having a softer, more rounded sound with more seeming depth, the Touch being more precise and more forward. I suppose this difference is caused by the Classic injecting more RFI and/or jitter in the signal, and the Touch seems to have a cleaner digital signal, but truth being told, I quite like the musical, softer sounds coming out of the Classic. But the Touch sound is very good to, and I probably have to get used to the added precision. Hope this helps someone, as I got a lot of help from the very well informed helpful people here. Best, Lex -- Dura ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dura's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39937 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81296 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
