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Clocking: again!

There are all manner of folk claiming that clocking is irrelevant to Ethernet and USB connections. While this is obviously ignorant of the RMI/EMI and ground level effects on DA conversion and the analogue stages of a DAC, the level to which digital clocking matters was again brought into stark relief when I changed the clock cable between the Antelope 10m clock and the Etherregen from the cable supplied by Antelope to a Shunyata Clock75 Sigma cable. Shazam! Everything jumping into focus and significantly more snap and reverb. In our hobby everything matters and we are only at the very beginning of optimizing streaming.

antigrunge2
discopants
149 posts
 

I already run LPS on Etherregen and the Chinese clock , both have home brew power cords and feed from an Isotek sigmas gen 2 with a DC blocker on the power cord feeding the isotek.

maxwellseq
31 posts
 

I have built and engineered (including hands-on physical inspection and RF analytics) of 100s of thousands of  Ethernet ports. Ethernet does not have a clock on the wire.

If you are running industrial Ethernet (e.g. Electrical grid switching, trading floors, IP Studio - SMPTE 2110, AES67, Dante etc.) you may need to run Precision Time Protocol IEEE 15888, but no-one is doing that domestically!

djones51
4,947 posts
 

Sorry maxwellseq reality isn't a commodity accepted here. Give us your over the top useless personal anecdotal blabber referencing psuedoscience double talk the sellers of these components use to get idiots to buy this nonsense. Then you'll be in the club.

antigrunge2 OP
1,463 posts
 

@djones51 

 

Get some help, mate

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lalitk
5,632 posts
 

@antigrunge2

Just ignore the likes of djones51. His mindless posts here are indicative of his reference which is DSP controlled active speakers with a built in DAC 😂

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