Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?

The Wyred4Sound Recovery is another value-priced option currently on sale, lowered from $199.00 to $149.00. Used with different DACs or directly from laptop into Expert Pro’s own DAC, I fancy it offers a slight/ subtle sound improvement with a touch more clarity. It certainly is not a case of night and day improvement.

From a logical perspective, it would seem to me that money could be spent more wisely when considering expensive re-clockers, unless of course one doesn’t care about cost and can easily afford it. I would suggest that most high-quality DACs have excellent clocking solutions within the architecture already, so any improvements should be subtle. Words like ‘dramatic improvement’ would suggest that the asynchronous DAC with it’s own re-clocking chipset is not up to par. Carefully engineered DACs that use great components should not sound dramatically worse, than an external re-clocker imvho.

These dongles do work but it's very much on a case by case basis. I bought an original IFI iSilencer a few years back when I was ripping CDs and got a poor result from it when using it in series with my USB cable.

Fast forward to last week I found it when going through some old stuff and put it into one of the spare USB inputs on my Aurender and I was so surprised that I bought a new version too.

So just inserting them into the empty USB outputs does have a good effect decrapifying, again using them in series with the USB cable has poor results.

Not sure how it compares to the Unnuos Phoenix reclocker , but the Mutec MC-3 + USB could be a viable option to try. 

@timo62 Yes you can use the Mutec but it only has USB in, no USB out.

These means you can't play native DSD.

BTW I would be interested to hear from anyone who has compared the IFI iSilencer to the Audioquest Jitterbug. Thanks

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