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.

antigrunge2

@greg_f 

You are introducing the relative benefit of different types of clocks which has no direct relation to the topic discussed.

@antigrunge2 In your discussions with @nigeltheflash you are both  referring to clock accuracy, I was merely pointing out that in our hobby the clock accuracy is not the most critical parameter. That's all.

Streamer onwards we want a clock, external or internal, which is very low noise and very accurate.

Up to the streamer we merely want a clock, external or internal, which is very low noise.

I may not be arguing, but I sure as hell will not be buying any of his products.