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RE: Windows or Apple for 2014/15?

I read the manual. The description of clock circuitry and optimizations didn't make a lot of sense to me. It could be a poorly written manual, or perhaps it could be a design problem in the DAC's phase lock loop circuitry. Another curious thing is the implication that "Exact" mode will improve sound quality when on USB. Assuming the product implements asynchonous USB the only relevant clock is the local DAC clock, i.e. the clock mode should automatically be "exact" when on USB. (I note that with my DAC the choice of clock modes goes away when operating over USB as this is asynchonous.)

Did you try different clock modes over USB? Did they work? Was there a difference in sound quality? Did you try different computer optimizations or the lack thereof to see what the ill effects were?


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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