Master Clock for the SOtM SMS-200 Ultra Neo SE

“Does it really make a noticeable difference?”
@plga

The answer to your question is emphatically YES! But you must use a very high quality external Master Clock to hear appreciable improvements.The BNC clock cable quality also matters. If your DAC or Streamer can accept a 10MHz external clock input, it is absolutely worth experimenting. I don’t own SMS-200 but my experience with Aurender N20 fed by external master clock was quite an eye opener. Inspired by this revelation, I am now putting together pieces to try a fully tricked out sNH-10G switch with external master clock and later plan to add Aurender N30SA.

Once you hear a system with a high quality master clock, you will not go back!

Great info here @lalitk @jjss49 thank you for the video. 

@jjss49 

Thanks for posting the video. Hans nailed it. But man, he missed the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, he could have easily asked SOtM to send the switch with external master clock input :-) 

Well, at that time I did not have the master clock and the money.

Maybe I can ask Crux Audio to add it now. We'll see.

If you use Usb in asynchronous mode all that needs clocking is the dac since it slaves the server. On all other protocols except I2S clocking the server matters greatly since it embeds the accurate clock signal that the dac uses.