adamdea;577147 Wrote: > I haven't tried out the modded audiocom XDAC without the XPSU but am > tempted to experiment now. I have always found it as bit odd that it > only steps down 240VAC to 24 VAC, as I would have assumed that the > point of an external PSU would be to keep to AC/DC conversion outboard. > It made me wonder whether it really made that much difference. I did pay > for a full mod of sorts, but I was told that an ealier modding attempt > had made it impossible to fit their normal regulators. They used > something else which may or may not have been quite as good. > As a matter of interest did they do anyhtign to your X 10D/ Perhaps i > should send them theat, although it occurred to me that the better the > op amps in the DAC the more doubtful the X10D would become. > I am very interests in the Digital room corection, and I suspect that > my next step might be to try out inguz. I don't know how good that is > relative to the TacT system, but i can see the sense in dealing with > the whole thing in software before sending it to the DAC. At the moment > though I am using a QNAP NAS which runs squeezeserver fine but would not > have the horsepower for DRC. > Have you read the stereophile Oct review of the touch yet. I think the > measurements are interesting. I may start a separate post on this > invting more technical sorts to comment on what conclusions we can > draw.
The X-10d was rebuilt with new diodes, caps etc. Sounds "quicker" (hard to explain). The x-10 "magic" comes from the nuvistor valves. The DAC mod was way more important. The X-PSU is just a very nice multi-secondary toriodal transformer in a pretty box. It probably has more of a benefit to the x-head amp than anything else.. It is in fact optimal to do the AC-DC conversion in the DAC - you do not want the regs a long way away from the circuit that uses the DC for several reasons. -- 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=78938 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
