I look forward to your impression of the BDP-2 VS. the Squeezebox touch.
I seem to remember the BDP1 and 2 have the same sonics but different connectivity (plus more power to the usb sockets)...
...if that's the case, then over the past few days I've been listening to a Squeezebox Duet via SPDIF versus a BDP1 via AES, both into an sp3, and found significant improvements.
I was not really expecting there to be much of a difference, in theory the exact same digital data stream is being presented to the Crystal CS4398 DACs in my sp3, but for whatever reason (SPDIF vs AES ? NAS vs USB drive ?) while the clarity and convenience of the sound is the same, the presence, weight, solidity... call it what you will, but the "three dimensionality" of the soundstaging is significantly better. I also suspect the dynamic range is greater too, though this may be the same effect being expressed in another way.
I wouldn't say the sound is 10 times better (the relative cost of the two options) but then I don't think that is something we're too bothered about when pursuing that extra 5% of quality...
...suffice to say the Duet has been relegated to the spare room and I'm liking the BDP1 experience, especially couple with the MPad app (just as good as the iPeng app I use for the Squeezebox system... in fact I really like the playlist creation feature, but do miss the ability to browse-by-year).
Ian