hey guys, last post. i need to prepare for overseas since borders opening up soon so closing up shop on this site.
for optical, you need some clocks at the source and glass optical to do optical right. feeding optical from a mac is like feeding from a tv optical out, it's dry. i rather sandpaper my fingertips than to have to listen to optical without clocks. that's why i run military use clocks (missile guidance, satellites) for my optical out. i get precision, solidity, transparency, pRaT, layering and air. similar to dCS:
https://dcsaudio.com/clocking
i don't run clocks in realtime tho i run in an fpga buffer that buffers the whole track before sending the perfectly timed digitial optical source to the Chord DAC. I can see why people switch to dCS because of the power of clocking, but clocking + Chord works perfectly well if they are completely separate processes and don't intermingle.
Examples of streamers that use clocks:
Pi2AES - NDK clocks
HiFIBerry - WM8804
Allo - WM8805
Uptone - Crystek clocks, even ISOREGEN USB has a clock
the summit-fi USB PCIe cards have clocks. these examples are just basic HiFi clocks, but users report good results. Now imagine replacing HiFi clocks with State of the Art military use clocks...
the war against the
terminators EMI/RFI is real. i ran across this video and if you skip to 14:17, you can hear that EMI/RFI is all around you.
you need some way to decouple via glass optical or usb optical. But to decouple with glass optical, you need clocks at the source otherwise it's a grind. I can't believe people use LPS, imagine putting the Elektrosluch on an LPS lol. GL ♫