In it's most simplest form a good clock can help more accuracy with the data stream and help it be more organic. Most streamers come with an internal clock but have an external option as well. The pieces that have only one function to do versus multiple within the same casing tend to do it better and cleaner but also cost a lot more in money and require more space ( a rack system ) to house.
The key thing is jitter at the point the DAC converts digital into analogue. Paul mentioned jitter. Another key concept is phase noise of the clock that drives the DAC. Human hearing is especially sensitive to timing as it is used to determine spatial awareness. What makes it complicated is making a difference to a system someone else designed. Having a super duper low phase noise signal in a streamer into a Denafrips DAC is a waste as Denafrips has its own reclocking which determines the sound. If OTOH your DAC allows you to bypass its clock and be driven from the streamer, you have the possibility of better sound if your streamer has a low jitter signal and the cabling does not mess it up. I build my own DAC and streamer so it is easy to apply improvements in jitter using a ultra low phase noise oscillator as you control what the actual DAC sees through very short U.FL cables for each of the I2S signal paths.
The whole digital clock thing confuses me, after years of simple coax or toslink outs suddenly you got these wave of R2R dacs with multiple BNC inputs and a host of different clock manufacturers I have no clue on if they’re compatible or not. I’m just a KISS person maybe I’m missing out not having one but my Gustard R26 sounds fine as-is.
It’s around a hundred spent for something that had a positive effect. Give it 10 days to hear an ideal improvement. If you don’t hear an improvement within 21 days, many places offer returns.
DIGITAL IS ALL ABOUT ACCURATE TIMEKEEPING. No digital engineer wants to play around with asynchronous sequential switching circuits especially if you do military work. That’s why we ‘reclock’ and have large memory cashes to keep the timing as accurate as possible.
Re-clocking the original clock from the signals that we received from a streaming device, to synchronize with the clock device(s) that will reproduce is for canceling jitters; means that we are canceling all the digital modulation noises inside of the digital signal that we going to receive and processing . That’s the point.
Could someone/anyone answer this for me, please? I have a high-end CD Transport. It is is connected via AES/EBU to a very good DAC. The DAC is then sending it's analogue converted information to my Pre-Amp. OK. Would inserting a DDC into the 'chain', i.e., CDT >> DDC >> DAC >>> Pre-Amp result in a noticeable improvement in sound quality? Thanks for your time.
Clocks *are* extremely important in the sense that they perform an extremely important function. But one does not need to spend money on something fancy to get the necessary performance. People act like clocks are as important as the musicians' abilities to keep pace with the drummer. Jitter is not only a non-issue in 2024, it wasn't even an issue in 1994. Paying for fancy digital clocks is just spending money on something one doesn't need.
True, in that most DACs use very good clocks. But if you hear the difference between those clocks and a SOTA low phase noise oscillator then you'll never want to go back. Assuming of course your system is transparent and your music taste leans to well recorded music using real instruments. If you listen to heavy metal on a boom box, your phone is a more than capable streamer/DAC.
I don't know what jitter sounds like or what audible impact it has on music playback. There is A LOT of talk about it but no one has ever heard it. Maybe they've only measured it.
@@AWEG-qu8bzu probably hear jitter all the time but u just don’t know that degrade in sound quality is jitter. By definition, jitter is error due to time
I agree, but not really. That deviation causes audio delay in some spectrum of frequency and changes the listener music content as a kid of echo, that is not noticeable, but it causes listen fadigue .
@@cesarjlisboa7586 The first part of your answer shows me what a linguistic genius I have in front of me. "I agree, but not really." I say to your answer: "I don't agree. But that really."
@@NoEgg4u What is your problem? This video was not that exciting and I didn't know what else to say. Why are you always crying about first comments? Don't worry about what doesn't impact your life. Just watch the video and don't read the comments. I am Paul's biggest fan and he likes me being the first one.
