innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th


I hope some of the tech guys a weigh in on this subject.  I would like to know how some of the nicer streamers such as Innuos Pulse compare to the Gaia DDC in terms of cleaning up the signal.  

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I would recommend using USB from any streamer into a Denafrips DAC. These DACs reclock the input data. If you use a synchronous input (anything other than USB), you risk FIFO overflow or underflow which will cause audible glitches.
 

I currently own the Terminator Plus and owned a Terminator previously. 
 

I’d recommend focusing first on getting a good USB streamer, and then if you have a Denafrips DAC with clock outputs, you can consider a DDC such as the Gaia.  If your DAC doesn’t have clock outputs, I think you are better off skipping the DDC and using USB directly into the DAC.