I appreciate the tone of your post. With all due respect, you don’t get it. Let me repeat it: DAC reclocks the audio signal. Network and USB signal, that carries the audio signal, do NOT get reclocked by the DAC
In other words digital signal is represented by a electrical pulse which can be affected by emi/rfi and the like that causes jitter before and after received by the network player so the reclocker (does just that) reclocks the signal and sends the better signal to the dac. The dac clock can only preserve what's received and hence can't correct the signal received. As it receives a better signal then produces a improved sound.
If you believe that any “competently designed” DAC (a cheap $50 China DAC for example, that ASR mob says measures really good), magically solves any issues upstream (streamer, network, USB path), then so be it. Keep that Magic DAC Special Edition MK4, and be happy with it being fed crap. You are missing out.
Peace out. I have said enough. I am not sure why I am spending my time trying to convince someone that cannot possibly be convinced, let alone be curious to try
In other words digital signal is represented by a electrical pulse which can be affected by emi/rfi and the like that causes jitter before and after received by the network player so the reclocker (does just that) reclocks the signal and sends the better signal to the dac. The dac clock can only preserve what's received and hence can't correct the signal received. As it receives a better signal then produces a improved sound.
If you believe that any “competently designed” DAC (a cheap $50 China DAC for example, that ASR mob says measures really good), magically solves any issues upstream (streamer, network, USB path), then so be it. Keep that Magic DAC Special Edition MK4, and be happy with it being fed crap. You are missing out.
Peace out. I have said enough. I am not sure why I am spending my time trying to convince someone that cannot possibly be convinced, let alone be curious to try