Holo Audio Titanis

Not surprising in the least. Like I've been saying the rendering capabilities of the vast majority of servers out there second rate. Nearly all usb, or any port rendering will be improved by various filters, decrapifiers or external streamers. The vast majority of these servers not meant to stand alone, require these external devices to hear real potential of dacs and/or streaming in general.

@antigrunge2 I bet the Innuos Phoenix would be upgrade over the Titanis. The fact the Phoenix even exists is testament to Innuos understanding limitations of their server's rendering capabilities.

The Phoenix in my mind is a bit of a kludge: rather than improving the overall clocking of the Dac and by asynchronous USB the connection and slaving to the server it only addresses the latter. Reclocking the Dac is more powerful, that’s the route I have chosen.

And btw, rather than reclocking the Ethernet connection à la Phoenix Ethernet I use the same clock to reclock my Etherregen. Two fer one and it works beautifully

I hadn't realized that. Phoenix obviously designed for dac with top flight usb board installed. These boards have high quality OXCO clocks, adding another clock would be redundant.

A good ocxo clock alone is in excess of $5000. Not many dacs have those inside…Also, the actual DD/AD conversion needs superior clocking as well, it isn‘t just the USB clocking. Good clocking is crucial digital audio.

I hav3 been using the USB perfect it was $250  and regenerates a new digital signal before going to the dac.  How the Holo audio compares ? No idea 

it would be a good shoot out though.

Interesting discussion on clocks. https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/upgrading-a-dac-clock-is-a-fool%E2%80%99s-errand.19185/

I was considering this:

https://www.virtins.com/USB2ISO.shtml

I thought this was another tinitus thread!