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DACs from dCS and Ayre are getting favourable press, among other reasons because they have USB inputs from which they clock the incoming signal proactively, rather than taking whatever the connected computer gives them. The coverage would suggest that this is the One True Way, and must assuredly give better results than crappy old S/PDIF.
One of the few DACs that gets even more ecstatic reviews than the two just mentioned is the Berkeley Alpha. It hasn't got a USB connector at all, but just the vanilla connectors of old.
How can I reconcile these positions? If asynchronous USB is indispensible, then mustn't any DAC without it be inferior?
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