Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?
I read a lot about the Innuos Phoenix USB and everyone sings its praises even owners of expensive gear. The problem is that it is expensive.
There are other reclockers like iPurifier3, the Ideon Audio USB Re-clocker 3R, or the SOtM tX-USBultra USB Audio Reclocker. In forums the feedback is that the Phoenix beats a lot of the reclockers.
Does anyone have experience with a USB reclocker that does as good job as the Phoenix USB?
“Why spend a ton more on a Streamer or DAC to get the same performance that a low cost USB dongle gives you? ” Except it doesn’t, I have tried and tested many tweaks in my system. Again, not saying they don’t improve the sound but a $80 USB dongle won’t magically transform a laptop to a level of well designed dedicated streamer or server. +1@jjss49 |
The Wyred4Sound Recovery is another value-priced option currently on sale, lowered from $199.00 to $149.00. Used with different DACs or directly from laptop into Expert Pro’s own DAC, I fancy it offers a slight/ subtle sound improvement with a touch more clarity. It certainly is not a case of night and day improvement. From a logical perspective, it would seem to me that money could be spent more wisely when considering expensive re-clockers, unless of course one doesn’t care about cost and can easily afford it. I would suggest that most high-quality DACs have excellent clocking solutions within the architecture already, so any improvements should be subtle. Words like ‘dramatic improvement’ would suggest that the asynchronous DAC with it’s own re-clocking chipset is not up to par. Carefully engineered DACs that use great components should not sound dramatically worse, than an external re-clocker imvho. |
These dongles do work but it's very much on a case by case basis. I bought an original IFI iSilencer a few years back when I was ripping CDs and got a poor result from it when using it in series with my USB cable. Fast forward to last week I found it when going through some old stuff and put it into one of the spare USB inputs on my Aurender and I was so surprised that I bought a new version too. So just inserting them into the empty USB outputs does have a good effect decrapifying, again using them in series with the USB cable has poor results. |
@timo62 Yes you can use the Mutec but it only has USB in, no USB out. These means you can't play native DSD. BTW I would be interested to hear from anyone who has compared the IFI iSilencer to the Audioquest Jitterbug. Thanks |
