Addons, i.e. regen, reclock, isolate - are they needed?

[Superdad]

On 7/3/2018 at 5:00 PM, plissken said:

Benchmarks engineering pedigree is well earned and I'm sure that their inputs are properly engineered and won't be improved upon by a USB dongle.

 

And yet here is a blind test in a recording studio with the original USB REGEN and the Benchmark DAC2 HGC:

http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=5155

 

And we are way beyond that now...