This may sound ignorant, rambling, and even slightly off topic. I'll make my point, which is about tweaking, eventually. First, I don't even own the Touch. Second, I've got a couple of Duet receivers, so it's not even 24/96. Third, Over the past decade, I've been through tweaking hardware, using external clocks, custom building electrostatic speakers, linear power supplies for Tact's room-correcting pre amp etc etc, to tweak out that extra little blackness, and just a wee bit more resolution. I've spent around oh, I don't know, 50 grand, give or take, on gear. Then last night I was listening, music streaming through the Duet receiver, digital out, into the Tact RCS, by-passing any correction, into Sanders Sound ESL amplifier and onto my recently renovated Martin Logan CLSIIa's. Listening to Kate Bush I could hear digital artefacts in the recording. I came to realize that today's gear is so transparent the limitation is in the recording, these days. I guess it could still be fun, in a sort of analytical way, to discover what other errors I can get to hear in recordings by tweaking the gear even more, or by getting the Touch so as to get 24/96 (yes, I will). But I doubt my listening enjoyment will get any more satisfying. So what was my point? Today's gear is incredibly good, extremely resolved, outrageously cheap, and the limitation these days sits in the recordings. I'm off my box now, thank you.
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