Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?

@tjag Well I finally sent the SOtM tX-USBultra back. It just ended up making everything sound different. That's the problem when you get to a certain level, music doesn't necessarily sound better or worse, just different. The SOtM with all the add ons is an expensive piece of kit and I tried it with a master clock too.

All in all you could easily spend upwards of $5-6k to fully implement the SOtM and that's if you have a master clock already.

I believe money would be better spent on high quality USB cables.

Thank you very much @lordmelton for the update interesting test. You have impressive gear and you use the best components, hence the high price tags :).

All in all you could easily spend upwards of $5-6k to fully implement the SOtM and that’s if you have a master clock already.

It will be interesting to know what you will try next I will follow your posts.

Perhaps the next logical step in your system is to try the Phoenix. From the reviews I found the quality of the Phoenix output beats everything else. Your Aurender A20 is 13000 euros 3000 more is not much in comparison. Getting it from the second hand market will save a lot.

@klh007 

Yes indeed. 

Pulsar

Instead of SPDIF and AES/EBU outputs, the PULSAR offers an optimized USB output to take sound quality to a whole new level by incorporating a PhoenixUSB Lite Reclocker. 

Both the Phoenix and the Pulsar borrowed from the Statement 

The Statement already contains both the USB regeneration capability delivered in the Phoenix, as well as Ethernet regeneration.

@jorjlien 

We won't really know without a comparison :).

With the obvious deficiencies of USB as an audio connection one cannot but wonder why better connections have largely been ignored by server engineers. Might that relate to the ability of asynchronous USB to slave the server‘s clock to the dac?  Hard to explain given otherwise clearly superior characteristics of I2S, AES/EBU and BNC. Not  even to mention fibre…