Can Digital beat our Analog installations?

Czarivey,

maybe this is also helpful:

Word clock is used inside electronic equipment as part of an I2S interface, which conveys PCM digital data in serial format between chips (e.g. FPGA chip to DSP chip). I2S consists of 3 connections:
- serial data (both channels multiplexed together)
- bit clock (used to clock each bit into the receiver)
- word clock

A word clock signal is a square wave with very fast edges and the same frequency as the (PCM) sample rate. Word clock carries no digital data, it used to set the timing of the digital words and select L/R channels.

Word clock has also been used for decades to synchronise different pieces of electronic equipment (e.g. a digital multi-track recording system). The source data MUST be locked to the master clock generating the word clock data. You can use any good-quality 75 ohm BNC coax SPDIF cable for word clock, provided it is DC coupled. Some SPDIF cables have a coupling capacitor in series with the signal wire - these cannot be used for word clock as the capacitor blocks the DC offset.

Jfrech,
I am pretty sure using a Vivaldi Dac in your chain is an improvement. maybe this will be my next step too. You then have two Dual AES inputs - this is absolutely perfect!

The topic has been beat to death here over the last couple years. Not much new to say unless specific questions asked or making specific comparisons of specific products as opposed to digital versus analog in general.

"I'll go out on a limb and say wireless wi-fi connection is dramatically inferior"

Better climb back in a little.

I am a fan of the DCS Ring DAC technology...just waiting to be able to afford it again someday maybe.

Meanwhile my non oversampling mhdt Constantine DAC (<$400 used) does the job quite nicely for me and does not sound "digital".