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

Showing 2 responses by sjsfiveo

That's why he suggested a good LPS to reduce the noise. It opened my eyes because the reclocked signal doesn't mean much, it's getting that signal outside of the streamer and getting it filtered by the reclocker that gives the real benefit. 
I've been researching reclockers and DAC's and talked to a manufacturer and he opened my eyes about streamers and reclockers. He basically said the problem is noise and clean power. Streamers are computers and are incredibly noisy, the reason reclockers work is you're taking the noisy USB signal your getting from your streamer and it's getting cleaned and filtered in the reclocker. Yes the signal gets reclocked but the difference before and after is really to small for the human ear to really detect. The real difference is the noisy signal being cleansed on the outside of the streamer. So his recommendation was to buy a very good LPS to power the streamer and a external reclocker.