Which USB reclocker is as good as the Innuos Phoenix USB?

@klh007 

Yes indeed. 

Pulsar

Instead of SPDIF and AES/EBU outputs, the PULSAR offers an optimized USB output to take sound quality to a whole new level by incorporating a PhoenixUSB Lite Reclocker. 

Both the Phoenix and the Pulsar borrowed from the Statement 

The Statement already contains both the USB regeneration capability delivered in the Phoenix, as well as Ethernet regeneration.

@jorjlien 

We won't really know without a comparison :).

With the obvious deficiencies of USB as an audio connection one cannot but wonder why better connections have largely been ignored by server engineers. Might that relate to the ability of asynchronous USB to slave the server‘s clock to the dac?  Hard to explain given otherwise clearly superior characteristics of I2S, AES/EBU and BNC. Not  even to mention fibre…

@antigrunge2 those deficiencies are ones you believe but they are totally unfounded. There can be groundloops when connected to lower featured DACs, but they are easily eliminated for a few hundred. It's far better to send data than data and clock.

@antigrunge2

Other than the obvious advantage of asynchronous connection you pointed out, I can think of couple of reasons why USB still considered a better option for servers. There is no standardized connector with i2S protocol, some uses RJ45 and others using HDMI. Both AES and BNC (SPDIF) has sample rate limitations (upto 192kHz) unless you’re using dual AES outputs which is very rare. Not to mention jitter which if not addressed properly can become a detriment to a bitstream.

IME, The Ethernet based DAC/Server all in one device is the way to future. The brilliant designers at Merging Technologies and Aurender has proven that you don’t need an external or separate server with ginormous processing power to run Roon Core or to run your favourite player software to hear music files. The whole separate server from end point (renderer) is a propaganda by ROON to fool people into spending money and jumping through hoops with tweaking gadgets to get data stream from Server to End Point (player or renderer). Just think about it, how many folks are benefiting from this grand scheme of running a Roon core on a separate server.