stop-spinning wrote: > I > > Other than that does Async USB mean you conveniently totally bypass the > internal clocks altogether (if you have a good async USB DAC like the > MDAC?). > > Thanks everyone.
Thats the general idea with async usb . it was designed for use with computers as source in mind . Computers can have magnitudes worse performance than Touch especially laptops on thier spdiff ,if they even have spdiff or toslink ? And you get a separate "soundcard" that you use with music programs and don't have all those windows sounds etc . Touch performance is not that bad as digital transport Stereophile has some god measurements to show on it , it can of-course be improved on . It's on par with a decent CD-transport But given that and modern well designed dac's ability to copy with and reclock almost any source . You are most likely not able to hear the improvement . As with CD transport you don't need the most expensive $$$ high end transports to have "good enogh" performance so that the DAC can do it's thing and the outcome would be identical sound . Imo Touch is the source you need for 2ch music . IF you have one off the better USB only DAC's that out perform Touch's own DAC (this is not a given look in the EDO treads and see what people actually tries to use, you exemplified with the MDAC it migth be one of the DAC's up to it ) , you can use Triodes EDO app to be able to use USB . If you have a DAC with multiple inputs it would be a toss-up it entirely up to that DAC's design which input that actually performs best (what happens internally after the async-USB ? ) Also , it is naive to trust the tweoko industry it is not a given that a mod or add on product actually improves the situation at all , the clock may for example be better but the application in circuit is probably at least as important . A circuit as designed as a whole modding by sticking random "audiophile" components into it is not a good method if don't know the implications for the design . Imo to be able to mod a circuit you must understand it's design from the gound up , in practice be able design a similar circuit yourself then you know what you are doing otherwise not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95573 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
