adamdea;576602 Wrote: > Yes I intend to copy this correspondence to Linn and suggest that they > try to develop some sort of state-of-the-art disc-less audio playing > range. I even have in my mind a rather crass sexual metaphor which > mediated through dyslexia can inspire the name for the top-of-the-range > model. > > Actually no- it doesn't really matter how much effort the hi end > industry puts into disc-based systems- provided it is competently (not > expensively) engineered any ethernet-based streaming device should be > able to produce as good a spdif output as a megabuck transport- the > megabucks just go on trying to read the disc. Hence you can spend a > fortune on solid adamantium disc drawers, hi torque motors to spin the > disc and ultra refined mechanical isolation systems for the > disc-reading part. However good they are there is no reason on god's > green earth why the resulting data will be any more accurate than is > collected by a small plastic device receiving a tc/ip stream (OK it may > then have to turn it into spdif- but how much of the cost of the > disc-spinner goes into that?) . The hugely expensive tank/jewel > construction will only serve to make the transport as (or more likely > nearly as) good as the little streamer. > > Do we really have to be surprised that a solution (disc-less play via > digital out) which has every possible theoretical advantage and no > theoretical disadvantage should turn out to work better than reading > the disc in realtime. [This nicely complements the point that the > touch's analogue out is as good as one could reasonably hope from a > cheapo device with no room for fancy components but a very good > designer; but no better. Perhaps a lovely surprise but no textbooks > thrown out]
Linn have already ceased manufacture of CD spinners in favour of disk-based solutions. They have stated publicly that there is no going back. PROPERLY implemented, disk-based solutions will at least equal even the most esoteric spinner as a transport. They will do so at much lower cost. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
