Is usb reclocking necessary?

I find it is very helpful & useful, so much so that I daisy-chained two reclockers and enjoy much better clarity and dynamics.

I had a DAC over 10 years ago that did not have a synchronous usb input.  The DAC was great with S/PDIF, but with usb the soundstage completely collapsed.  On Orchestral recordings it sounded as if the bass drum and the tuba were side by side with the Conductor.  I then bought one of those cheap reclocker devices by Musical Fidelity.  It came in ugly casework, had no independent power source, and stopped working after a week.  During that week, however, it made the usb almost equal to the other inputs.
  Todays DACs come with some type of reclocker.  The question then becomes how much additional sonic benefit can be derived from an additional reclocker.  Surely the numbers would would better on a graph, but any audible improvement?  I noted with interest that with dCS, more than one respected reviewer thought there was no audible benefit to the separate reclocker, which cost around $10K

ghdprentice I just got my Ayre DAC last week which was used when I got it. Should the sampling rate be displayed on the front panel? Mine just shows a green dot on standby when there’s no streamer playing and then a blue dot when it is playing. No sampling rate.

ghdprentice never mind I found the switches in the back.

@hysteve


Great! You will really love the DAC. I have actually had mine since new more than 10 years ago, then upgraded it about a year ago to the twenty version. It really is an excellent DAC by today’s standards.