Another Heads up for SB Touch owners...

[Ali Tait]

Hey..that'll work!

(By the way...6gb of Ram is so last Tuesday...)

Fast enough for the likes of me!

[Ali Tait]

Anyway, stop knocking my beloved's Christmas pressie!!

[Gazjam]

Thanks a million, Gaz. I'm with you -- Teddy Pardo PSU more expensive than Touch itself, what's the point? If it makes that much of a difference, I'd rather spring for the Transporter.

Speaking of Transporter, I seem to recall that someone somewhere had made some serious comparisons between Transporter and the Touch into Caiman. Couldn't find the winning/losing side, declared the listening match a stalemate. I'd be curious to hear if the same comparative test could be now done between the Transporter and the Touch into gatorized Caiman? Judging from my initial impressions (as of last night/this morning), Touch into gatorized Caiman via digital coax is now seriously pushing the sound quality into the esoteric, multi-thousand dollars audiophile paradise. Curious to hear whether Transporter could keep it up with this new kid on the block?

Happy to help Alex, hope you find the Upsampling Tweak as good as I did!

About the Caiman/Touch Vs. Traspoorter?

Its was a fellow AOS'er who used his Transporter into a STOCK Caiman as he found the overall sound quality better than the Transporter itself...

now,
couple THAT with the generally recognised opinion over on the Squeezebox forums (and I'm NOT paraphrasing - check it!) that starting from scratch most folk would spring for a Touch with a quality Dac rather than shell out for a Transporter, and you start to form a picture...

...and that was with a stock Caiman.

with your Gator Caiman and a Touch using Soundcheck Mods....your getting maximum bang for your buck.
Dont worry about how much bang for buck as compared to whatever.... ....just enjoy it.

The Caiman/Touch combo is one of those things you could spend $$$ trying to better...(as oppsed to make "sound different") best be happy with what you have till the next evolution comes along.

[Gazjam]

Anyway, stop knocking my beloved's Christmas pressie!!

Hey..
all I got was a pair of socks and a Toblerone!

[Gazjam]

Fast enough for the likes of me!

You want a REAL upgrade?

Get a SSD hard drive for your laptop.
Flash drive instead of mechanical hard drive..

whoa..!

[Ali Tait]

You mean an external one? I will, as soon as 1 or 2Tb are available at sane prices.

[magiccarpetride]

You mean an external one? I will, as soon as 1 or 2Tb are available at sane prices.

How much will 1 TB solid state memory be now?

Consider this: I am keeping my music library (some 350 GB and growing rapidly) on 4 external 1 TB drives, just in case Mr. Murphy decides to pay me an unwanted visit. I'm now thinking about getting the 5th hard drive because one can never be too redundant with that shitty piece of technology (basically, the weakest link in your computing chain). The storage cost adds up in a hurry.

Maybe the day will come when it will make more sense to switch to solid state? You know, no moving parts, no cooling fans...

[Reid Malenfant]

Maybe the day will come when it will make more sense to switch to solid state? You know, no moving parts, no cooling fans...

RAM can still fail

[Gazjam]

You mean an external one? I will, as soon as 1 or 2Tb are available at sane prices.

no an internal one.
They are of the 2.5" format, which means they will slot in a laptop no probs.

In my case, I fitted a 60GB one as my windows drive which made ALL computing stuff be INSTANT.
Open a program..it opens before you let go of the key on the keyboard.
Windows boots up in less than 10 seconds.

With a laptop its different I reckon, but with a desktop you fit a SSD to install windows on and use a traditional HDD to store all your stuff...

A laptop has one hard drive..I'd be temped to fit a SDD if I had one, but a 100MB SSD is still really expensive....

[magiccarpetride]

Happy to help Alex, hope you find the Upsampling Tweak as good as I did!

About the Caiman/Touch Vs. Traspoorter?

Its was a fellow AOS'er who used his Transporter into a STOCK Caiman as he found the overall sound quality better than the Transporter itself...

now,
couple THAT with the generally recognised opinion over on the Squeezebox forums (and I'm NOT paraphrasing - check it!) that starting from scratch most folk would spring for a Touch with a quality Dac rather than shell out for a Transporter, and you start to form a picture...

...and that was with a stock Caiman.

with your Gator Caiman and a Touch using Soundcheck Mods....your getting maximum bang for your buck.
Dont worry about how much bang for buck as compared to whatever.... ....just enjoy it.

The Caiman/Touch combo is one of those things you could spend $$$ trying to better...(as oppsed to make "sound different") best be happy with what you have till the next evolution comes along.

Wow, interesting. I must be behind with the program (read: retarded); I still thought that Transporter is considered bee's knees.

Great to learn that us poor working stiffs armed with nothing but a $300 Touch and a $400 gatorized Caiman can now kick ass on pretty much all these boutique multi-thousand dollars esoteric DS machinery.

Revenge of the downtrodden?