Audiophonics DIGIRescue - snake oil or....?

[ppataki]

Just bumped into this product released today:

AUDIOPHONICS DIGIRESCUE Reclocker SPDIF Module Optical Coaxial Galvanic Insulation 24bit 192kHz - Audiophonics

This Audiophonics DIGIRescue reclocker module has been designed in association with Ian Canada. Using a high-precision local clock and Ian Canada's reclocking technology, it perfectly resynchronizes S/PDIF signals to achieve very low jitter.

www.audiophonics.fr

Could this have any audible improvement or is this just yet another variant of snake oil (like the iFi products...)

 

[Snoopy]

Just bumped into this product released today:

AUDIOPHONICS DIGIRESCUE Reclocker SPDIF Module Optical Coaxial Galvanic Insulation 24bit 192kHz - Audiophonics

This Audiophonics DIGIRescue reclocker module has been designed in association with Ian Canada. Using a high-precision local clock and Ian Canada's reclocking technology, it perfectly resynchronizes S/PDIF signals to achieve very low jitter.

www.audiophonics.fr

Could this have any audible improvement or is this just yet another variant of snake oil (like the iFi products...)

Maybe for a TV. But why not just use usb or Lan for music?

 

[Matias]

I can see the pig + panther on the home page already.

 

[amirm]

I have tested a couple of reclockers. This is one: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...rements-of-empirical-audio-synchro-mesh.7062/

They do what they say.

 

[Audiophonics]

This SPDIF Reclocker was designed and developed as a solution to issues many customers have faced: SPDIF with interruptions, discrepancies, no sound at all…
Until recently, the error margin to receive SPDIF signals was wide enough to accept any kind of signal, whether it was clean or not.
DACs and recent amplifiers now produce extraordinary measurable performances and require an input signal that is both high-performance and stable.

It is exactly what our DIGIRescue offers, as it is mainly designed for old SPDIF sources (TV, CD players, old DACs…) with an poor SPDIF signal and/or synchronization.
The point is absolutely not to reclock the SPDIF output of a DAC or any other kind of modern interface, as they already are well-synchronized and clean.

We worked in collaboration with Ian Canada on this product, because of we have the greatest trust in their know-how and their incomparable technical knowledge.

 

[mdsimon2]

This SPDIF Reclocker was designed and developed as a solution to issues many customers have faced: SPDIF with interruptions, discrepancies, no sound at all…
Until recently, the error margin to receive SPDIF signals was wide enough to accept any kind of signal, whether it was clean or not.
DACs and recent amplifiers now produce extraordinary measurable performances and require an input signal that is both high-performance and stable.

It is exactly what our DIGIRescue offers, as it is mainly designed for old SPDIF sources (TV, CD players, old DACs…) with an poor SPDIF signal and/or synchronization.
The point is absolutely not to reclock the SPDIF output of a DAC or any other kind of modern interface, as they already are well-synchronized and clean.

We worked in collaboration with Ian Canada on this product, because of we have the greatest trust in their know-how and their incomparable technical knowledge.

Does it have any delay?

Michael

 

[VintageFlanker]

Could this have any audible improvement or is this just yet another variant of snake oil (like the iFi products...)

I cannot say about the reclocker. But it seems that there could be some needs for it, assuming the response from @Audiophonics above.

Glavanic isolation through coax, tho... this could be needed for some poorly designed DAC that are sensitive to loops on that input (while immune through toslink, obviously). Here is an example I measured:

 

[Audiophonics]

Does it have any delay?

Michael

Our S/PDIF reclock has no delay. Delay will be only applied to FIFO reclockers.