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.

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.

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