OhHeyItsLou
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The LHY OCK-1 and C18 are spec'd very similarly and the LHY is a fraction of the price with tons of great feedback from users here in the group. I personally have the LHY OCK-2 and I run 12" LMR 400 cables from Pasternack shorturl.at/mIW07 which has been the best sounding cable I've tried yet.Hello! I've been reading many posts about adding a master clock and was curious regarding recommendations
I recently purchased Gustard U18 and R26. I have Gustard U18 connected to my imac via USB and the U18 to R26 via HDMI (I2S)
If I get a master clock, do I connect it to BOTH the U18 and the R26 ? (so 2 BNC cables?)
Any thoughts re: LHY OCK-1 or 2 vs the C18 ?
I also read the BNC cable shorter is better, the gustard BNC cable is 1m. Is that considered long? It's also quite a bit more $$ compared the beatechnick bnc cable (gustard is $240 and beatecnick is $79)
Lastly, is there a recommendation for the C18 to use the sine or square connectors to the u18/r26 ? does it make a difference or just personal preference?
On Paper the OCK-2 is the better spec'd clock which doesn't mean you'll like the sound better for what it's worth. It's half the price of the C18 but twice the price of the OCK-1. If you want a technically better clock then out of the three the OCK-2 has the best cost to performance value proposition.
There's conflicting opinions on how to connect the clock with I2S however the general idea of connecting multiple devices to the same clock is to synchronize them all together hence why there's all of the outputs on the clock. I connect my U18 and R26 to the OCK-2 both set to Ext Clock.
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