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| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @soix - I bought two BJC Belden FEs - a 1ft and a 2ft, TBH have only been using the 2ft one for convenience as the 1ft would be a pain. That said I'll have to give the 1ft one a go. I've read conflicting things re optimal cable length for digital... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @soix Yes i2S - a Blue Jeans Cables FE cable which although very well regarded up to say the $200 range I is likely a limiting factor vs say a Tubulus Argentus, which would cost as much again as a DDC which I’m not in a hurry to do. USB cable is a... | |
| For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock? @peareye I've had the R26, the Ock-1, Zen Stream, U18 & SU6 for 6 months, and more recently got the Ock-2 and LHY SW-8 switch. The Ock-2 is a clear step up over the Ock-1, in resolution and refinement, though the Ock-1 is warmer, smoother and... | |
| Gustard R26 @kairosman Nothing more exotic right now alas. My only point of comparison was a head-to-head with a similarly priced and since returned SMSL AK4499 VMV D2 DAC last year, which the R26 beat handily. Oh and a Topping E50 they both destroyed. R26 &a... | |
| Gustard R26 @arafiq I use the R26 streamer with Roon and HQplayer, faultless operation and sounds great. I use HQP upscaled PCM768 & DSD512. I prefer the sound of the R26 internal streamer to my Ifi Zen Mini (+ IFI Power X) > Gothic Audio pure silver ... | |
| Gustard R26 @Kairosman - from my reading the conventional wisdom is most DACs when fed sources like I2S, s/pdif and AES that contain a synchronous word clock will use that embedded clock signal untouched so theoretically at least a master clock connected to t... | |
| Gustard R26 @kairosman With respect I didn’t say the R26 uses an external clock to reclock its DAC section only with the LAN input selected but that when the LAN input is used it also reclocks its streamer/renderer section. So it’s just there’s a there’s a du... | |
| Gustard R26 Hi guys, first post here. @kairosman I have the R26 and recently became one of those guys with a couple of inline switches. I found inserting a modestly priced Netgear GS108E (albeit Alpha Audio recommended) upstream of my already very good LHY S... |