The Logitech Touch Experience

[Tripmaster]

Hi folks

I thought it might be a good idea to create a new thread after the negativity surrounding the pre-release.

Here is a link to the Logitech Touch Forum
http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

So in an effort to put a positive spin on this product, it might be nice if we could share our experiences here

[Tripmaster]

I'm beside myself

[Ali Tait]

Tell you tonight once I've tried these 24/96 recordings!

[Tripmaster]

Tell you tonight once I've tried these 24/96 recordings!

What did you end up downloading?

[Ali Tait]

Songs of Nick Drake by various artists,and "Ink" by Livingston Taylor.

[Tripmaster]

Songs of Nick Drake by various artists,and "Ink" by Livingston Taylor.

Hi Ali

Just out of interest, did your 24/96 tracks stutttter on start-up?

[Covenant]

Hi folks

I thought it might be a good idea to create a new thread after the negativity surrounding the pre-release.

Here is a link to the Logitech Touch Forum
http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

So in an effort to put a positive spin on this product, it might be nice if we could share our experiences here

I shall report once my Touch arrives. Its currently enjoying an extended tour around the country courtesy of UPS......

[Ali Tait]

Hi Ali

Just out of interest, did your 24/96 tracks stutttter on start-up?

Yes they do,for a couple of seconds,and the Touch says it is buffering.It's fine if I just let the album play,but pauses if I skip tracks.

I have to say how good I find these hi-rez files though.My first impression was how vinyl-like they sound,very like I remember Marco's Techie sounding at Owston when I heard it the first time (though I remember thinking at the time how cd-like the techie sounded!) The glare that is present in a lot of cd recordings is totally absent,and the very revealing statics readily show how much better these are than red book standard.There is a sense of ease about the sound like you get from a good vinyl deck,and resolution is amazing.The only downside is the size of the files,about 1.4 Gb per album,and that's a FLAC compressed file!

[Marco]

Hi Ali,

My first impression was how vinyl-like they sound,very like I remember Marco's Techie sounding at Owston when I heard it the first time (though I remember thinking at the time how cd-like the techie sounded!)

Lol - that can actually be a good thing, you know!

Many turntables (mostly of the low-mass belt-drive variety) sound tubby and coloured as hell... The Techie avoids the cloggy euphony many (wrongly in my view) deem as the recognised 'signature of analogue', by presenting a more accurate portrayal of the information that is actually on records.

Although how my Techie sounds these days is markedly different (way better) compared to when you first heard it at Owston.

Anyway, chaps, my apologies for the rather rude interruption - as you were!

Marco.

[Stratmangler]

Just out of interest, did your 24/96 tracks stutttter on start-up?

The development team at Logitech will be burning lots of midnight oil working out how to get TinySC to handle 24/96 files without stuttering.

This does indicate that SOX resampling is not going to be possible on TinySC - I have a couple of 24/192 albums in my library, and SBS handles the downsampling to 24/48 for my SB3 just fine.
Not that there are many 24/192 albums out there.