innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th

Is the question "Do you need a DDC with a Pulse Streamer?"  Some may say yes and some may say no. I think it matters what DAC you have, how good the clocks are and weather or not you value the I2s interface. The Gaia DDC mates well with the Denafrips Terminator level DACs that can slave the clock to the DAC with BNC clock cables. This is also possible with the new Venus 15th too. Some say the galvanic isolation via USB in most better DAC's are all you need.  I feel the DDC was and is beneficial to both the Denafrips DAC's I have owned and presently own. 

@fthompson251 Instead of a streamer one idea is to run a computer and TV through the gaia12th  with  TOSLINK for the TV and USB for the computer.  I  think the Gaia would clean up the signal for both but not sure if the sound will be as good as a nice streamer for the music and as far as the tv goes I am not sure if it will match the words on the tv because of a small delay of some sort because of the gaia.

I'd easily choose the Pulse over Gaia with computer as streamer. Next to the dac, streamer is most important streaming component. Using a general purpose computer as streamer means high levels of self generated noise, poor clocking, and once you've lost here nothing post streamer can restore whats been lost, it also defeats the whole purpose of a DDC in that optimization of INPUT to any DDC is also critically important.  Inserting a high end DDC is only worthwhile if one already has nice streamer, optimized input (most likely usb) into that DDC and DAC with I2S input.

@sns What good streamers come with I2s?