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

The Computer Audiophile · July 5, 2018

5 hours ago, plissken said:

You may be confused. As USB standards have increased in throughput it looks like Benchmark is speaking to the part of their jitter suppression system which is being able to ASRC to higher and higher sampling rates.

Back in the day it was 24/96, now we can do 32/768.

For those of us that know what we are talking about, we know that the USB dongles have nothing to do with clock recovery. They simply are making attempts as isolation of the ground plane of the computer/source (i.e. the Moat every one talks about). It's all about AGND and DGND design (Henry Ott has some good technical write ups about this including the math for calculating the zip trace impedance values).

Everyone is welcome to their opinion. It could be that the 'worst sounding' part of it has nothing to do with it's inputs.

I believe it was on the DAC1 where Benchmark midwifed a 100' digital line just flooded with errors and timing issues. But they still showed the measured output of their DAC unaffected and showed 100% reconstruction of the input signal.

That's what I mean by they designed proper inputs that are robust to dealing with downstream issues.

I look forward to others who up-vote your post so I also know who else suffers from an information and knowledge deficit

4 hours ago, 4est said:

Those of us that know...? How pathetically pompous of you. I hope that works on some kids at least, and pray your partner never learns how long an inch really is.

About all that test really proves is that it sounds just as shitty with 100' as it does 3'. But it was a lie anyway. It locked on though, I have to give them that. We (meaning myself and a few others) could readily hear the difference in sources, inputs and input cabling although they all did have that signature white-ish grey-ness to them. Ultralock should have been called Ultrabrite/Ultrawhite or something...

Please watch your choice of words guys. Neither of you are helping anyone with your back and forth.