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[hardcore]

Hi hardcore, yes I do digital mainly via Tidal. Sorry for my ignorance, what is a re-clocker DDC, any example? Interesting on the RCA-XLR for the master & companion. Will KIV that recommendation.

DDC is generally a USB-to-AES/SPDIF converter, but the good ones have very good clocks inside and the Devialet (and almost all DACs) are affected by the clock and cleanliness of the input. You will also need some sort of PC or streaming device like a NUC running the music player, or a Roon device.

Since you're in Singapore there is the newly announced Denafrips Gaia which is hotly anticipated but I haven't seen any real reviews yet. There are also good Chinese made ones like the Singxer SU-6 (I use one) and the Audio-Gd DI20.

Alternatively, there are high end streamers with good clocks inside like the dCS Network Bridge, which would output AES/SPDIF to the Devialet.

If you're interested, it's best to try it in your system to see if it is better or worse. The built in CI streamer in the Devialet is already really good and an external streamer might not sound better.