The stereophile measurements for the SBT suggest it is really very well engineered. It probably should not be a surprise that it sounds good. I am gradually coming round to the view that
1 competently designed digital source components are pretty good these days. 2 the difference between them (or even the difference between them and competently designed expensive digital source components) is much less than the differences to be gained at the speaker/room end of things. 3 If you can implement DRC on the touch it will probably make more difference than a front end upgrade. 4 You can get digital front ends to sound very different by buggering them up though. 5 It is relatively easy to plug in source components. Messing around with speakers is more of a hassle, involves complex space and aethestic choices and compromises, and it likely to have unpredictable results if you don;t audition in your room first due to acoustic interactions 6 Hence people like box-swapping at the front end even though it makes more sense to concentrate on the speaker/room end. I recently compared over some time 2 DACS which had pretty well nothing in common AFAIK and I don't think I could really discern any difference between them at all. -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90656 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
