For Gustard R26...which bang for the buck: DDC or LHY OCK clock?

@kereru If FedEx doesn't let me down, the OCK-2 will arrive tomorrow.  My plan is to connect it to both the U18 and R26 as you suggested.

Stupid question of the day...  if I connect my cd player to my R26 using a coaxial digital connection, the clock will benefit that connection as well as the i2s connection, correct?  I typically use the dac built into my Denon DCD-1700NE because it actually sounds good. I figure I'll try connecting to the dac again with the addition of the clock.  The U18 doesn't have a coaxial input, so I can't go through it.

@sls883 Cool, I hope it goes well for you. Noting leaving it on for the oscillator  stabilize for days or even weeks initially will improve the sound, cables matter too. 
Re coax yes you’ll still get a benefit, more if R26 has PCM NOS set to OFF I.e. it is doing internal over sampling. 

@kereru   Thank you for the reply.  You've been very helpful.  

@kereru And just when you thought I was out of stupid questions... I seem to recall something about caps for the unused bnc connectors.  I found both copper shorting caps and some silicone caps on Amazon.  Do you recommend one or the other?  I can't see the silicone hurting anything, but I wasn't sure about a shorting cap. 

@sls883 Never noticed much if any difference with copper caps TBH for RCAs, haven’t tried for BNCs, maybe get both if cheap, see if you notice a difference. Other factors have far more effect IME..