adamdea;576498 Wrote: > Just read the review (via my Zinio subscription) which was very > interesting and seemed fair. > KR if you are around could you clarify- what was your ultimate > conclusion about the Touch purely as a digital transport relative to a > disk-spinner for 16/44 and 24/whatever. I thought perhaps you were > implying that it might be as good (excluding effects of hdmi processor) > as an Oppo 83SE vioa HDMI (p. 123 col 1),....Yes.
> .... but probably better than a straight oppo 83 via HDMI for redbook > (p. 125 col 2).I do not see how you are seeing that. > I was under the impression that the digital outs of the two Oppos were > the same. If so have I misunderstood your conclusion?I guess. > Also can I take it that the comment that there was no good reason why > the download shoukld be better in 16/44 than the redbook layer of the > disc (p. 125 col 2) was intended to be ironic? All else being equal > there is no reason why disc spinner could recover a better data stream > from a disc (even assuming it was properly inscribed on the disc) than > the (presumably perfect) download file via ethernet. There are many > reasons why it might make errors when trying to read the disc in real > time. Obviously it could in principle do a better job of getting the > bits to the dac, but there is no reason why it should, and some reasons > (eg inherent noisiness of high speed disc spinning) why it might not. It was > not intended to be ironic. We were, simply, surprised by the difference, at least in this case. > On the contrary it seems to me that the point of discless audio is that > it would be surprising if it were not as good as disc-based audio all > else being equal. Only the SPDIF format stands in the way as > demonstrated by your preference for isochronous usb. > ...well yes obviously you know that.All else being equal is the persistent > nub of many arguments. Perhaps if the high-end industry put as much effort into disc-less systems as they do into disc-based systems, all things might be equal. -- Kal Rubinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kal Rubinson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40032 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81346 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
