Popular Post sunbear56 Posted December 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2020 Hi, I was very grateful to SwissBear for providing these diagrams as the second one solved the same problem for me. However, it got me thinking and I've found that there's also a third way, also NOT including having to buy a second MC3+ USB. Start from the first diagram but ignore/'delete' the second MC3+ USB because it's not needed. Then: 1) set the sole MC3+ to 'reclock' and to read from its AES input; 2) connect the second, unused AES output of the DcS bridge to the MC3+ AES input (i.e. assuming that only the first output is connected to your DAC; if you want full 384khz signal rates then this solution will not work); 3) connect MC3+ wordclock output (I used 1A) to wordclock input 1 of DcS bridge. This may initially seem like a slightly demented 'closed loop' but it works because of the way that the MC3+ and DcS bridge behave when the data rate of the incoming signal changes, provided that the MC3+ is set to 'reclock'. You can check that it is working by looking at the DcS bridge control app where it shows incoming wordclock rate and whether or not it is locked. You do not need a particularly special AES lead from the DcS bridge to the MC3+ because its sole function is to 'flag' to the MC3+ what wordclock rate to output. The only downside is that the maximum data output rate from the DcS bridge becomes 192/64 since there is only one AES socket available for data output, the other being used to 'flag' the require wordclock rate to the MC3+. I've absolutely no idea if this approach will sound better or worse than direct re-clocking through the MC3+ USB as in SwissBear's second diagram. I was just intrigued to see if this third approach would work. The main point is that, given an external Ref-10 or Cybershaft (in my case) ref clock, either will sound vastly better than the DcS bridge alone! SwissBear and Confused 1 1 Link to comment
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