... it takes two to argue. I'm merely reasserting my position every time you reassert yours ...
Wow. This could go on forever.
Importance of clocking
There is a lot of talk that external clocks because of the distance to the processor don‘t work. This is the opposite of my experience. While I had used an external Antelope rubidium clock,on my Etherregen and Zodiac Platinum Dac, I have now added a Lhy Audio UIP clocked by the same Antelope Clock to reclock the USB stream emanating from the InnuOS Zenith MkIII. The resultant increase in soundstage depth, attack an decay and overall transparency isn‘t subtle. While there seems to be lots of focus on cables, accurate clocking throughout the chain seems still deemed unnecessary. I don‘t understand InnuOS‘ selling separate reclockers for USB and Ethernet without synchronising Ethernet input, DAC conversion and USB output.
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Peace, brother @lalitk! I fully accept that an external clock might improve sound quality. I don’t accept that the reason for this has anything to do with the accuracy of the clock. That’s all. Think about or investigate what a streamer does. Its job is to repackage lumps of data into (effectively) a continuous stream of data. It completely reformats it and the accuracy of the clock in the streamer is important to sound qualiity (I used to have a Mutec MC-3 reclocker after my streamer); ditto the importance of clock accuracy in the DAC (I continue to use an external clock here myself). I am happy to stand by my assertion that there is no possible mechanism through which ethernet clock accuracy affects sound quality. |
@cleeds It could, but I'm now unfollowing the thread so will only be notified if someone mentions me. |
Guys, it all depends what is understood by the term 'clock accuracy'. For example rubidium clocks have very poor short term stability, they jitter by design. This makes them totally unsuitable for a short term time base reference. Their big usage is due to their long term stability where the time has to be correct after a long time without synchronization (eg military applications). The long term frequency stability, the clock 'accuracy' is defined in ppm (part per million). The highest clock accuracy is not required for hifi applications. My point is that the absolute accuracy of the clock is not as important as other aspects of it (phase noise, voltage stability, jitter, etc).
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