Quote Originally Posted by magiccarpetride View Post
Sorry, can't help you there, Hamish. I do have a nagging feeling, the more I listen to the Busmaster, that the real bottleneck in my system may be upstream. SBT just does not seem to be capable of outputting the best pristine digital signal (the ever so elusive so-called "bit perfect"), as I feel it continues to interject spurious digital noises (and I've tried everything under the sun to tame that noise, replaced the noisy switching PSU with a good linear one, killed all the unnecessary processes on SBT, etc.)

So you may end up stuck with your Majik as a transport. I honestly don't believe you can coach your PC into sounding nearly as good as Majik, unless you're an engineering genius... Sorry to pee on your parade
FWIW, I use the Touch and I have no noise at all from the SBT that I can detect. I use a DACMagic but I also use an optical cable. I tried the coax with the Touch and found that optical just sounds better. I saw a few posts when it first came out and people recommended the coax as they thought it should sound better but after the Touch had been out a while I saw a lot of people confirming what I found in that the optical cable did sound better than coax