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Innuos Phoenix USB Reclocker Review

Rate this USB Reclocker:

  • 1. Waste of money (piggy bank panther)

    Votes: 321 96.4%
  • 2. Not terrible (postman panther)

    Votes: 4 1.2%
  • 3. Fine (happy panther)

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • 4. Great (golfing panther)

    Votes: 7 2.1%

  • Total voters
    333
Seems to me an opportunity is being missed to improve sound. All these reclockers take a dirty clock and try to clean it up. I think we need a digital declocker. It takes the clock away leaving pure data. We then use a proper clock to clock it right at the beginning. No way can you reclock as well as you can clean clock following a declocker.
I suspect you can still improve things if you put a reclocker after a declocker. No matter how clean your clock really is, there are always more veils to be lifted.
 
Tested it with both my headphone and stereo setups feeding them through Roon. Didn't hear any improvement with headphones and even had worse SQ using it with the stereo. There you go.
 
Clearly, I am in the wrong business. This thing has maybe $200 worth of parts in it, and the design engineering could be done by an unpaid intern. Even if you grant $500 for the cost of the case, the margin here is ENORMOUS, even higher than the Cartel makes from meth.

Perhaps the Cartel should go into the business of making audio gear like this - less legal risk and higher profits. Just sayin'
BUT….it MUST be expensive, or else it wouldn’t sound good and audiophiles won’t buy it
 
BUT….it MUST be expensive, or else it wouldn’t sound good and audiophiles won’t buy it
I'm almost certain if this thing was like $200 it wouldn't sell as well. People burning money on brands like Innuos would balk at the idea of buying something so cheap :)
 
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