Mutec MC 3+ and CTronic After Dark Clock

@designsfx 

👍 Those design engineers bicker like Audiogon members.

Mutec MC-3+ ordered today. Will be using AES/EBU from transport and SPDIF coax from Node2i.

I wonder why they went with RCA coax in/out instead of BNC. All word clock connections are of course BNC.

When checking the manual it looks like “Output 3” (below the BNC for AES) is the one to use. Next two over from that are the RCA cinch coax connector and the optical.

Where did you end up purchasing from?

@designsfx 

Sweetwater has the black in stock.

I've been using the Mutec MC-3+ for about a week and there's a significant improvement in my digital playback. I have a PS Audio PWT outputting AES/EBU and a Blusound Node2i using SPDIF coax out.

I've found that the Node2i doesn't output a very good quality stream. After adding an iFi iPurifier (reclocker) there was a noticeable SQ improvement. Now that I'm using the MC-3+ in reclock mode, I have no immediate need to upgrade my streamer or DAC. Music has more weight, detail, and depth. I haven't played a CD yet as I've been enjoying a much improved Qobuz this week. I don't know how much improvement a 10 MHz word clock would add to home audio. It might depend on the quality of the dac and how revealing a system is.