frankensmurf
Head-Fier
Fascinating.I use the PhoenixUSB with my K50, and it does indeed help and sound better. It's just a great component!
a) this is a bit unnerving given the price of the K50. : |
b) this is bit confusing given the implication (if I'm reading correctly between the lines) of Mr. Serinus that the K50 sounds better in his system than the Innuos Statement. Presumably the K50 is doing other things better than the Statement, and Innuos' USB reclocking adds further. (which is what it did in my system)
More important for me: have you compared K50 USB output to its other outputs? These are reported by Serinus (in the case of AES3) and others to sound better. I believe that with resolutions up to 24/192 you could do K50 > single BNC > M-Scaler > ...
Sadly no servers/renderers I'm aware of offer dual-BNC or dual-AES outputs (although we can perhaps expect it from the upcoming PS Audio Octave server as they are already offering dual XLR and dual BNC outputs on their latest SACD transport). EDIT: the DCS Bridge does.