I think you’re potentially getting more benefit out of a DDC especially if it allows you to take advantage if your DAC’s i2S or AES/EBU input that often provide significant sonic advantages. Especially if the DDC also re-clocks the data and using the i2S connection I’d think the clock becomes less of an issue, but I could be wrong on that. I bought a used Denafrips Iris DDC and was pretty shocked at the improvement I got switching from the SPDIF to i2S input on my DAC. Just my $0.02 FWIW.
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Musician Pegasus. The other surprising thing is I’m hearing these significant benefits from the Iris and i2S through a very cheap 6” HDMI cable from Monoprice… https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13578 So, I’m thinking either the HDMI cable doesn’t have much impact on sound with i2S (as long as it’s short) or I’ve got further improvements in store when I upgrade my HDMI cable to something from DH Labs, etc. |
@jaytor I read the same thing from others who upgraded their HDMI cables — marginal improvement versus switching to i2S. |