Is usb reclocking necessary?

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.

Ayre knows how to engineer the USB interface properly - they were one of the first, if not *the* first to implement an asynchronous USB interface.

I owned a QB-9 DSD for a few years and never felt there was a need for a USB reclocker / filter / etc.

Very much system-dependent.
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