18-Apr-2022, 14:50
I don't know any technical details of how the Devialet processes the input signal but I know that Devialet's chief engineer confirmed that the best input would be AES/EBU, followed by spdif, and lastly USB. He said that Devialet doesn't have such a high-quality clock as some of those streamers today (OCXO). This is not something I read on the internet but I was there at the "manufacturer meets users" event in Munich during the high-end show but at a different location, when we asked this question. About 6-7 of us were there from this forum. (CI board was not discussed then). They said that when Devialet was in the design phase OCXO clocks would have been too expensive to implement.
I can also confirm that my SOtM SMS-200 ultra streamer sounds better if reclocked by a Mutec MC3+USB which also converts the SOtM's USB output to AES/EBU. Both are clocked by a Mutec Ref 10 OCXO 10Mhz reference clock. I'm just replacing the MC3+USB with a Denafrips GAIA which has two OCXO clocks for 44.1 and 48kHz and multiples of those and is considerably better than the MC3+USB.
So all I can say is: get the best possible OCXO clocked source or DDC and use the AES/EBU input.
I can also confirm that my SOtM SMS-200 ultra streamer sounds better if reclocked by a Mutec MC3+USB which also converts the SOtM's USB output to AES/EBU. Both are clocked by a Mutec Ref 10 OCXO 10Mhz reference clock. I'm just replacing the MC3+USB with a Denafrips GAIA which has two OCXO clocks for 44.1 and 48kHz and multiples of those and is considerably better than the MC3+USB.
So all I can say is: get the best possible OCXO clocked source or DDC and use the AES/EBU input.
Win10/HQPlayer / Roon - Uptone Audio Etherregen switch / SOtM-SMS-200 ultra with clock input - Mutec REF 10 clock for the switch and the streamer - Denafrips GAIA DCC - Devialet D800 - YG Acoustics Carmel - Dual Elac SUB-2090
power supplies: Uptone JS-2, SOtM SPS-500
