USB reclocker pecking order?

I think the first question you would have to ask yourself is "How much am I willing to spend?" Relative to the cost of your source material, preamp, amplifier, and speakers, do you really want to spend as much as $895 for something like the Audiophilleo? I am currently using a modified HiFace, into a budget-level Beresford DAC. I'm please with the results and doubt adding a $900 USB/S/PDIF converter would greatly improve the system as a whole. As long as the converter supports up to 24bit/192k resolutions and has independent reclocking circuitry, you should be set. To get any more granular would require a great deal of downstream upgrades for proper upgrade justification.

To more directly address your question, I would say that you are most certainly picking the wrong priority. I say this, of course, without knowledge of your system as a whole.

Evan

It may be that in some particular systems one converter is as good as another, but there is a fair amount of anecdotal evidence that the various converters "sound" different in some reviewers systems.

For the record, the Audiophilleo can be had for $495. It appears to perform identically to the more expensive model, but lacks the display, some options, a Wireworld USB cable, a choice of colors, and a fancy case. I haven't used this product, but it's interesting and I wish there were more reliable reviews of it and other converters head-to-head.

thanks for the responses. I've decided to wait a while to see if HRT chooses to make a BNC/RCA digital out model using the fairly good digital circuitry in their existing Music streamer.

I am using a DCS Debussy dac with a fanless silent music server through a ubs cable. Using Media center 15 and flac. Anyone have experiance with a clock added? Is there a true improvement?

hmm, I see there is an asynch USB product for SPDIF out from Musical Fidelity, "V-LINK - USB To SPDIF Converter" that supports coax and optical SPDIF thats supports up to 96Khz. Anyone played with it yet? Price point ($169) is right for something thats likely to be obsolescing technology a year from now.