19-Nov-2017, 17:48
(19-Nov-2017, 17:22)roestano Wrote: @Spindrift Appreciate this! It’s exactly what I’m afraid of: spending money on marginal gains and more hardware to worry about ?
Did you notice differences between ETH sources?
Hi @roestano - I’ve only used a Mac mini and a prior to that a Mac pro as roon cores and didn’t really note much difference through Ethernet - though as far as I know since there is no inherent clock signal over Ethernet - the Devialet internal clock is providing primary word clock - maybe that’s the reason it sounds so good! Jitter accumulated through a more extensive digital signal chain is minimized . . .
I could be wrong about the Ethernet - but I think it’s packetized data . . So I’m not sure if the source will make a huge difference . . As the signal will be clocked by Devialet no matter which device is providing the data . . As opposed to AES where the word clock is extracted from the signal.
Cheers?
Roon/mac mini > hqplayer > sms-200 ultra and MC-3+ USB both clocked via Mutec Ref 10 > MIT Oracle MA-X AES/EBU > D440 > Dynaudio C1 MkII via MIT Matrix HD-60
