What happened to the Innous discussion

The next time you try out different equipment, you might try to keep it a few days. I auditioned an Aurender N200 in my system back when I first started building my dream system. Comparing it my Node 2i, I was not impressed with the N200.  So I tried an Innuos Pulsar from a different dealer and he told me to keep it for a few days so it had time to warm to room temperature because sometimes the clocks on these upper tier players need a few days to reach thermal stability, and that can affect sound quality.  It didn’t sound good when I first plugged it in, but it greatly improved over the next few days.  I ended up buying the Pulsar but always wondered if I the outcome would have been different if I had auditioned  the N200 longer than just a couple of hours. 

You would not be the first person with Mcintosh amplification to not notice any significant differences with upstream changes. 

Not for nothing but....if the Vault has USB out and you use that in place of coax that would let the Weiss do the clocking which would likely be nice a low cost improvement.

The Vault has RCA, Coax, and optical out, so I'm using the coax

@randymaqp 

Hi.  I have decades of instrumentation experience.  Some 0.5 PPB analyzers I have worked with use a temperature controlled optical bench to ensure a 235.7 angstrom wavelength.  Very precise and needs nothing like days to come to stability.  May I suggest the salesman was just letting your brain burn in?