squeezebox set up for audiophiles

dhinesh wrote:
tks for the input. Am aware touch is the weak link and thats why I want to find ways to make it "STRONG".

@dhinesh Please note this doesn't change the fact that NOTHING in what you are proposing to do in the area of storage and transmission of your audio files will make the slightest difference to the quality of sound you will experience - even with your high end setup.

You are clearly very focused on high quality audio reproduction, and maybe you're very experienced in the analogue domain, but in digital network communications, data either arrives fully in tact or it doesn't. There's nothing in between - no possibility of the occasional error or 'jitter' that might cause a slight 'degradation' - it is binary, 0 or 1, works or doesn't - the data arrives or it does not no matter what convoluted path if goes through. And when it does not arrive, you'll know about it even on the cheapest of equipment. New power supplies to the NAS or routers, conditioners, even the use of a wireless bridge is pointless, and given you appear to be connecting the Touch to a DAC, not to an amp via the analogue out, so the communication continues to be digital, bit perfect.

Even if you were connecting via the analogue out, the modifications to the Touch that you are considering are not based on fact, but speculation with no supporting evidence. *Maybe* in that situation changing the Touch PSU to a better linear PSU would help, but that is hardly a revelation. The rest, adjusting volume parameters, buffer sizes, wireless bridging etc is all nonsense as again, the data arrives at the internal DAC in tact, or it doesn't, sound or no sound.

Personally I'd recommend you just enjoy what you already have and not waste your time further trying to make the Touch "STRONG"