Squeezbox Touch USB or SPDIF?

Grannyring, happy to know this worked out for you!
Marakanetz, In in Grannyring's case, he has a DAC/integrated with only USB input. An USB is a great option to have, but I do not know which will ultimately sound better. Like Kal said, try it out and hear which sounds better in your system.

MANY THANKS!
I'll try both ways

To use the soundcheck mods to output USB from the touch, you'll need a USB DAC that does not require software to be installed on the source computer. This will work with a Benchmark DAC, e.g., but not with my Wyred4Sound.

My 2 cents: I use the "Squeeze" S/PDIF output to a DAC...works very well and sounds amazing.

Cymbop,
I'm actually in the quest to get either Antelope Zodiac or Mytek 192 DSD(want to try this one BADLY). Both units can do the job without additional driver installation and have great headphone outputs.
Mytek 192 makes much more sense to me since they don't charge almost double for having an analogue input(preamp version).