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Which USB Re Clocker

I have been very happy with my Innuos Zenith Mk 2 for several years. The sound  is excellent and ripping is child's play. I have been interested in adding the Phoenix Re Clocker for a couple of years, but for various reasons, haven't been able to get a demo yet. One of the selling points of the Phoenix by Innuos, is that it can be used between any source and USB DAC.

 Well it also means that any re clocker should work between an Innuos Server and DAC. The one drawback to me is that the Phoenix isn't cheap, at least as far as my budget in retirement is concerned. The Company claims that the Phoenix is more than a Re Clocker, with improved power supplies and other improvements. I don't suppose many of you guys have had the chance to compare the Phoenix with other units. Still any suggestions about other, cheaper Re Clocker units to consider? Particularly if you have had the chance to use it with an Innuos Server, but not much chance of that either. Still any advice is welcome, thanks.

david12

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erik_squires
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Reclocking is meaningless, but galvanic isolation is not.

I just found out to my deep chagrin that the Mytek Brooklyn I have is NOT galvanically isolated from the USB input.  I can't believe DACs these days don't automatically include this.
erik_squires
15,788 posts
 
If you are willing to live with S/PDIF the Wyred4Sound works really well.

However, and in a rare case I agree with ASR, modern DAC's have really good jitter reduction.  If you have a DAC that measures great, you can't improve it, but often make things worse.

If your dac is older, and you can tell by whether it performs poorly with RedBook, then a recklocker/upsampler is a great idea.
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