Thanks Amirm, I was under the same impression. However, with that, shall I say following statements made by dCS:
"In a digital audio system, samples must be accurate in level and time but jitter, which exists in all digital systems, can result in timing errors in these samples, causing the analogue signal to be reconstructed inaccurately."
Ref: https://www.dcsltd.co.uk/products/vivaldi-clock/
are completely trash talk? I knew there are many big names also produce masterclock for Hi-Fi.
It is just hard to believe they all try to sell sneak oil to us.
Some other useful testing reference: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/does-your-studio-need-digital-master-clock
"In a digital audio system, samples must be accurate in level and time but jitter, which exists in all digital systems, can result in timing errors in these samples, causing the analogue signal to be reconstructed inaccurately."
Ref: https://www.dcsltd.co.uk/products/vivaldi-clock/
are completely trash talk? I knew there are many big names also produce masterclock for Hi-Fi.
It is just hard to believe they all try to sell sneak oil to us.
Some other useful testing reference: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/does-your-studio-need-digital-master-clock
Well, this is what he did:
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That is half a millisecond of jitter which is HUGE! I measured 0.5 nanoseconds in recent measurement of the minidsp udio-8 and called that bad. This is 1000 times more jitter! Even with that, he got a tiny, tiny blip.
Here, we are talking about network and USB playback anyway. In both cases the input is a data pipe and its jitter is immaterial. THe clock would be locally generated by the DAC since the input is not synchronous.