Project CD Box RS2T and reclocker

Waste of money! Present day DAC’s have asynchronous input receivers that handle the timing of incoming data. You’d have to go way back to find a DAC that needed a reclocker!

@thyname : If I remember correctly Gordon Rankin of Wavelength built the first asynchronous DAC back around 1992-93. No need then to sync the transport and DAC to reduce/eliminate jitter (uncertainty in timing). The input receiver of that DAC and all present day DAC's re-clocks the incoming data. So no need for a clock between the transport and DAC. Jitter from the transport is a non-existent problem solved decades ago! 

And yes, I do use a DAC and transport connected by a coax RCA cable. 

A present-day DAC should handle a signal via USB without problems. But why use that type of connector? I’d say that the onus is on the designer of a DAC having a USB input to make sure that the implementation is correct and jitter is not introduced into the circuitry.

"C-Lock" sounds like what Wavelength was using as the input receiver back around. the same time! The cable wasn’t the problem though. It was getting the transport and DAC to sync up. A major problem which before the asynchronous input receiver was handled by the IS2 circuitry/cable. IS2 is practically extinct these days!

@thyname : the input receivers of all present day DAC's re-clocks the incoming data. So no need for another black box inserted between transport and DAC.

@thyname : I don't ask you what car you drive. I don't own a computer. I use a DAC that placed fifth on ASR's list of over 100 DAC's. I place my trust in science and proper engineering - not golden ear voodoo!