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IFi Defender +…the polish you need for dirty USB audio!
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Didn't see that one coming. Good troll!
Nutal. A superior clock in the main reason higher end DACs sound a little more alive, polished and realistic.
It’s called Clocking error. Well known outside the audio world. It’s all about those millions of bits of iinformation being transferred with precise timing. With music timing is everything. If it’s not precise enough the tone or pitch can sound a little off. A little more brittle and unnatural.
It can have minimal or huge impact in areas of science. Anytime you are transferring data They don’t call the upgraded clocks Atomic clocks for nothing They were built for critical scientific applications out side audio. Then found their way in to more expensive CD players, Steamers and DAC. I takes a lot of work, science of money to build one correctly.
Sounds like a total waste or snake oil. But the benefits can be huge or minimal depending on one’s audio system
There are a lot of different types and quality clocks between what you would find in a basic Bluetooth up to the Atomic So every unit at every price is effected in some way by the precision of the clock.
They.have a new atomic clock about to be released in sciencm. It 50,000 times more precise than even a cesium clock.
Hope that helped you some, because on the surface itl looks like a giant scam or gimmick
It’s called Clocking error. Well known outside the audio world. It’s all about those millions of bits of iinformation being transferred with precise timing. With music timing is everything. If it’s not precise enough the tone or pitch can sound a little off. A little more brittle and unnatural.
It can have minimal or huge impact in areas of science. Anytime you are transferring data They don’t call the upgraded clocks Atomic clocks for nothing They were built for critical scientific applications out side audio. Then found their way in to more expensive CD players, Steamers and DAC. I takes a lot of work, science of money to build one correctly.
Sounds like a total waste or snake oil. But the benefits can be huge or minimal depending on one’s audio system
There are a lot of different types and quality clocks between what you would find in a basic Bluetooth up to the Atomic So every unit at every price is effected in some way by the precision of the clock.
They.have a new atomic clock about to be released in sciencm. It 50,000 times more precise than even a cesium clock.
Hope that helped you some, because on the surface itl looks like a giant scam or gimmick
2 Grand Contributors , A Senior Member and a newbie still trying to earn his super best friends secret decoder ring. What a swell bunch. Im clearly outmatched
V3 took you exactly 6 minutes to pounce. Is that a personal best?
The original poster was simply trying to share to help others. He was immediately pounced upon. Why are you here? your not interested in learning or sharing or even coming out of your tiny room. Mockery, Ridicule RMAO stickers. Seriously? Yawn like we havnt seen that a million times before. You need to find a new act. The old ones wearing very thin.
V3 took you exactly 6 minutes to pounce. Is that a personal best?
The original poster was simply trying to share to help others. He was immediately pounced upon. Why are you here? your not interested in learning or sharing or even coming out of your tiny room. Mockery, Ridicule RMAO stickers. Seriously? Yawn like we havnt seen that a million times before. You need to find a new act. The old ones wearing very thin.
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Here's a $20 dongle DAC the size of your fingernail, with flawless clocking:
Source
And it's not like this is an outlier. Source devices with clocking bad enough that it can be detected by the human ear are virtually non-existent by now.
To help people make good decisions based in objective truth and to prevent fraud. It's a matter of ethics.
If even PS Audio knows you’re spouting nonsense, it truly serious:
www.psaudio.com
Atomic clocks
We all understand that in digital audio, the better the clock the lower the jitter, the better the sound. We've seen it in DirectStream: both the DAC and the new Memory Player. So, if what we've built into our products is low jitter, what about adding something even better? Like an expensive...
www.psaudio.com
There are turntables. Wow and flutter (analog jitter) introduced by the turntable and by the center hole of the record itself are much higher than in digital devices and can be audible, but don't seem to be a problem for most listeners.
I am also hearing pop sound occasionally from my laptop via USB. I am thinking of using something like a Douk U2 pro. I am currently using a cheap Cubilux USB C to TOSLINK Optical Audio Cable from Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNCP7FMH?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1.
Questions: Will a higher-end DDC make any difference audibly from the USB to Optical cable?
Questions: Will a higher-end DDC make any difference audibly from the USB to Optical cable?
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The pop sound situation might change with a different DDC, but honestly I'd expect it not to.
Playback quality definitely won't change though.
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