Well, streamer is last piece of equipment prior to dac, points to having large impact in final sound quality. I'll continue to say until I'm blue in face using motherboard usb out of servers directly to dacs is what gives streaming a bad name.
Time clock sync devices
Hello,
I would like to ask if anyone has experience with time clock synch devices and if it is worthwhile to buy such a device to complement digital music. Thank you very much for your time.
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@lordmelton Believe you mentioned this product previously, relatively low priced for what it offers. I do like the integrated nature of this, reduces clutter and cabling. Would be nice to see direct comparison to Sonore products although not exactly same iterations of capabilities.
It is both interesting and a good thing to see more optical devices coming to market as I'm convinced optical is optimal network solution at this point. |
Yep, clocks are critical to digital. And as big_greg referenced one can overdue it, the internal clocks may be sufficient, adding external or more clocks and/ or mismatched clocks may disturb sound quality. Somewhat recently I experienced what I presume was effect of this when after adding a switch to network I suddenly noticed excessively precise imaging. Other than that one episode, better clocks have always resulted in better sound quality for me. |
Above white paper is critical for understanding the necessity for optimal matching of network equipment. Get it correct and you'll have wonderful imaging soundstaging and more natural analog like sound quality, wrong, and you'll get overly precise imaging I experienced, other anomalies may also exist I've not yet heard. I greatly respect John Swenson, really ahead of the crowd on digital and streaming. |