Mutec MC-3+ USB

[Antoine]

I don't think that what's been written is correct. When we'd use the Mutec we'd connect it to a Devialet digital input, either a S/PDIF RCA or AES/EBU (I'd prefer the latter). The Devialet will extract the clock signal from the input data stream -unless- it has a ASRC (asynchronous sample rate converter) or if it buffers and reclocks the input signal. In these cases it'll throw away the embedded clock signal from it. So this ASRC/reclocking is not preferred if we'd like to profit from a high quality wordclock. After all we'd want the Devialet to use the HQ clock and not it's lesser quality own.

Since the Devialet's upsample each and every input to 384kHz/40 bit (the internal sample rate used for DSP processing) I'm not sure if any HQ clock will have any/much effect because I think it will use it's own internal masterclock for the sample rate conversion.

Those who'd want to be sure would have to ask Devialet how an incoming digital signal is processed.