Digital clock - any recommendations?

Hey, if there’s no advantage to DSD how come DSD CDs sound so good? I have a bunch. Am I the unwitting victim of psychological mischief? 😳 Do my ears need a good candling? 🕯

@mzkmxcv,

Do you have any clue what you peddling here....the link you attached is not a preamp. It’s a LessLoss modified Rega CD player with external DAC. I am including the link again for your reading pleasure and education,

https://6moons.com/audioreviews/outside3/outside_2.html

I bet you’re still spinning CD’s in your boombox, that why you can’t comprehend the audible differences between DSD, PCM, Jitter. The component under discussion here with external clock and upsampler are well above your comprehension (sorry).

I do recall another member here thought Google Chrome SQ is more than adequate to stream music and anything beyond is waste of money....lol!!!

I’m done cause any further discussion (with you) would be a fool’s errand. 

@mzkmxcv. If you have read the manual for the SA11 S2 you’d know it has an external word clock input ...

As to the value of DSD I suggest you spend some time with sources like this, and really try to listen to a true high end digital rig one day without prejudice. In my system where I listen to all Red Book upsampled to DSDx2 I find that DSD gives a more continuous performance retaining more of the gestalt of performer in room. You’re welcome round my place if you’re ever in the PDX area and want to hear what I mean, changing the sample method and filters is easy and all the adjustments are clearly audible.

What may them blow your mind is to discover that the more esoteric, and costly, the setup the more it responds to detailed tweaks. Yes footers, power cords, damping stones and even anti vibration stickers all matter and are highly audible in a $200k digital setup ... kind of annoying, no 😉

actually, this is all new to me.  I was just very amazed at how much the clock made the transport player better.  If it is not worth doing, i want to know that also.  I was just curious as my player does have external clock connection.

@tzh21y

It does have a clock input, but what are you syncing it too? A master clock is to make sure all the components are in-sync.

All you have is your Marantz going into whatever preamp/integrated you have. Does that have a clock input as well? If not, there is nothing to sync the Marantz too. As pointed out by the other user, the Esoteric was using the clock to sync all of its separate components together, not a common layout for the majority of setups. 
 
DSD can’t sound more accurate, because PCM is already 100% accurate (down till -95dBFs at a minimum). Now, your DAC’s filter for DSD may be more pleasant, but that’s a case-by-case basis, and has nothing to do with the actual format.