nigeltheflash
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| Importance of clocking Thanks @antigrunge2. I had missed this update and am in process of installing. However, I'm not sure I understand the "standalone" point you mention or what this has to do with clocking. Could you expand? Thanks and apologies Nigel | |
| Importance of clocking @mikhailark On your point about local file playback, Roy Gregory was surprised to find a similar improvement with his Wadax server/streamer (see page 5 herehttps://gy8.eu/review/magnificently-minimalist/5/. I agree with his hypothesis that if ther... | |
| Importance of clocking @antigrunge2 Re Innuos, you’d have to ask them but I suggest you first carefully read what they say on their website about the contribution of the clock to the performance of the PhoenixNET. I suspect it’s economies of scale: they needed a clock o... | |
| Importance of clocking @antigrunge2 You said "I don‘t understand InnuOS‘ selling separate reclockers for USB and Ethernet without synchronising Ethernet input, DAC conversion and USB output." The PhoenixNet operates purely in the ethernet domain to kill RFI noise, it i... | |
| Importance of clocking Network switches used to improve sound quality (rather than just giving extra ports as originally intended) do so by massively reducing the amount of RFI reaching the streamer. I guess it will also filter out other traffic in the process, but it’s... | |
| Importance of clocking It is vitally important in such discussions that we avoid conflating/confusing the ethernet domain (up to the input side of a streamer) with the bitstream domain (output side of streamer onwards). @erik_squires is spot on here. The ethernet domai... |