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Denafrips Gaia anniversary edition

Hello i currently have an R30 by Gustard and thinking of upgrading my DDC from the singxer su 6 to the Denafrips GAIA. Denafrips says it won't work cause the clocks don't match(10mhz vs 45mhz) so the devices aren't compatible. However it says on the devices main page that "works with wide brand of dacs" I'm confused here. Maybe I'd benefit from the upgrade maybe not? Need some insight here.

izgmoen

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sls883
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@izgmoen I don't honestly understand exactly how these clocks work.  I bought the Gustard U18 and LHY ock-2 to use with my Gustard R26 dac.  I had a SMSL VMV D1SE before it.

The LHY has three sine wave outputs and three square wave outputs.  I use one output to my X-30 and one to the U18.  Everything I had read said to use the sine wave output, so I did.  @lanx0003 asked if I had tried the square wave outputs.  I gave it a try and there was a noticeable improvement in sound quality. 

sls883
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I have an X30.  I'm using a Gustard U18 ddc and a LHY ock-2 clock.  It all works well together.  I don't know anything about the Denefrips ddc. 

I've read good things about the R30.  I'm quite happy with the X30, so I'll probably stick with it.

How do you like the R30?  What did you have before it? 

sls883
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@soix the Singxer doesn't have a clock input. 

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