For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock?

Looks there are all sold out on Amazon for the time being.

I will explore it in the meantime. Thanks for the tip.

phastm3

thanks, I just actually figured this out...moving on with my search.

I am looking at the Leo Bodnar...modest price is good. I don't see

any i2s connection. also, I have a MacBook Pro and all I can see in their

illustrations are guides for Windows. Otherwise, I wouldn't mind trying

one of these.

@kereru 

I am waiting for a reply from LHY as to which OCK would suit my system better. I sent in my list of equipment in my system as they requested to determine which clock (in their opinion) they would recommend. 

I am new to this part of digital and am asking what part does the switch play in the signal path. I really do prefer to use YouTube off the MacBook Pro as I like going down the rabbit hole to look for new music including a lot of covers by various unknowns. 

After doing some further exploring, I am strongly leaning to 

a good DDC to an LHY OCK-2 and a DH Labs Silver Sonic 2.1

cable to connect the clock to the Gustard R26.

@kereru 

yes, the dh labs was for the i2s connections...I was looking at a few

things at the same time! the bnc to bnc I was looking at was a Harmonic Tech 

Digital Copper III (50 ohm) cable. This would be the reclocker to the

bnc of the R26. I am thinking this cable doesn't have to be long. The

hdmi (i2s) cable would be 1.5 or 2 metres in length. 

I have been very happy with Youtube Music for a few months now and

don't feel any urge to change that. I actually tried Tidal last year and gave

it up in less than a month.

I see a dealer near me here in Ontario. I will phone tomorrow

and see what his prices are.

For a budget of around 1,000.00, I can order a OCK-2 and use

my Douk U2 Pro or 

an LHY UBT-1 (ddc) and an OCK-1

any opinions?

P.S. I ordered a .5m bnc cable off of Aliexpress.

@kereru 

that's the exact decision I made last night! ...and you said the same thing

as Beatechnik did! I prefer using MacBook Pro to Phasure Lush usb

to the Douk U2 Pro with Atlas Mavros Coax to the Gustard R26. I am

looking for that Harmonic Tech bnc cable still but have also ordered 

one LMR 400 from aliexpress.

@jerrybj 

how's that?

@kereru 

I am currently using wifi to my MacBook. Router is only about 10' away

without obstructions. It's a nice  balance between convenience and

audio quality. there's no Lan connection on this version of MacBook.

I have been using an Inakustik hdmi cable via i2s from ddc to R26

and it works well...silver plated copper. I also tried a brand new

fiber hdmi cable yesterday but couldn't get a signal???

I am still waiting to try a dh labs hdmi.

any suggestions why the fiber optic hdmi didn't produce a signal?