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Which USB Re Clocker

I have been very happy with my Innuos Zenith Mk 2 for several years. The sound  is excellent and ripping is child's play. I have been interested in adding the Phoenix Re Clocker for a couple of years, but for various reasons, haven't been able to get a demo yet. One of the selling points of the Phoenix by Innuos, is that it can be used between any source and USB DAC.

 Well it also means that any re clocker should work between an Innuos Server and DAC. The one drawback to me is that the Phoenix isn't cheap, at least as far as my budget in retirement is concerned. The Company claims that the Phoenix is more than a Re Clocker, with improved power supplies and other improvements. I don't suppose many of you guys have had the chance to compare the Phoenix with other units. Still any suggestions about other, cheaper Re Clocker units to consider? Particularly if you have had the chance to use it with an Innuos Server, but not much chance of that either. Still any advice is welcome, thanks.

david12
erik_squires
15,808 posts
 
If you are willing to live with S/PDIF the Wyred4Sound works really well.

However, and in a rare case I agree with ASR, modern DAC's have really good jitter reduction.  If you have a DAC that measures great, you can't improve it, but often make things worse.

If your dac is older, and you can tell by whether it performs poorly with RedBook, then a recklocker/upsampler is a great idea.
rbach
200 posts
 
The Innuos ZENith mk2 only digital outputs are ethernet direct and USB 2.0.  I also have a ZENith mk2 and think I will save for the Phoenix.  I have heard so many great things about it.
mike_in_nc
1,124 posts
 
I used a Mutec MC-3+USB in a former setup. It did improve the subjective sense of imaging and space in the sound. When used with a newer DAC, it did not improve things.

So: my suggestion is to make sure anything you try is refundable if you don't like it. The effects of reclockers, like those of power conditioners, are very much dependent on the system (and perhaps on the listener).
jaybe
732 posts
 
SOtM txUSBultra works great in my system
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