Clocking: again!


There are all manner of folk claiming that clocking is irrelevant to Ethernet and USB connections. While this is obviously ignorant of the RMI/EMI and ground level effects on DA conversion and the analogue stages of a DAC, the level to which digital clocking matters was again brought into stark relief when I changed the clock cable between the Antelope 10m clock and the Etherregen from the cable supplied by Antelope to a Shunyata Clock75 Sigma cable. Shazam! Everything jumping into focus and significantly more snap and reverb. In our hobby everything matters and we are only at the very beginning of optimizing streaming.

antigrunge2

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@antigrunge2

Right on! I was just as gobsmacked when I switched the stock cable between my DAC and Clock with Acrolink 6N-D5070II. I was immediately struck by how all concepts of imaging and staging were redefined. The bass and treble response further improved to reference-level, and the midrange became fully articulated and colorful.

@antigrunge2

Just ignore the likes of djones51. His mindless posts here are indicative of his reference which is DSP controlled active speakers with a built in DAC 😂

“state of the art design, FR and sound reproduction.”

You do indeed live in a DSP controlled bubble 😂