Hi there all! I guess this might be a question of quite general interest...
I'm kind of a disappointed newcomer. Just bought a Touch and expected too much of the word "audiophile" used in Logitech's publicity for the Touch. I ripped my CDs using "EAC", so the most accurate way I know of, lossless compressing of course, and they still sound way better over my CD player (Creek CD50 MKII) than over "touch". Of course I was a bit naive believing to get something similar out of that pretty low budget device, I know, so please no comments on that. And I still like it for mp3 radio... However, I want to try to make most of it using a DAC that fits right. I connected a E-MU 0404 that I already had for recording purposes, using coaxial, but it did not help, sounded almost the same. I read in some (pro-)review (German STEREO, 07/2010), that connecting even a very highly priced DAC (Music Hall DAC 25.2) over S/PDIF would not better the sound much. So here comes my questions...: 1. Has anyone noted a important improvement using an external DAC? Which DAC, and how is it connected? 2. What is, technically speaking, closer to the "naitive" format used by the touch, S/PDIF or USB? I mean, with which connection could one by-pass more of the potentially low cost/quality audio components built into the Touch? With other words: A decent USB-to-S/PDIF converter costs about the same price as the entire Touch, so in case, USB transports the "naitive" signal, some USB-to-SPDIF converter is used inside the touch, and probably its not of the best quality. 3. To conclude: If I have to buy a new DAC that I want to choose particularly for the use with Squeezebox, what is the best choice, USB or SPDIF - and which one? Some of the DACs I am considering out of the 100s available: devilsound DAC KECES DA 131 (spdif) or DA 151 (usb) v-dac arcam rdac DacMagic Beresford TC 7510 Solisto 8100 DAC-4all Pro-ject USB DAC BOX Tube Magic D1 DAC Little Dot DAC MUSILAND SVDAC05 YULONG DAH1 MARKII VALAB 8x TDA1543 NOS DAC ... now how the hell to figure out which is best for the money...??? Thank you! Diego -- diego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ diego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40897 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82110 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
