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In Reply to: RE: Some kind questions about reclocking posted by beppe61 on January 27, 2015 at 01:16:30
Beppe, this is effectively the same as asking the question " Is the transport important?" or " Which is more important, transport or DAC?".If you search the archives on this forum you will find dozens, maybe hundreds, of postings.
I am confident that you will find the overwhelming consensus to be that there is a lot more to the answer than just the accuracy of the clock controlling the DAC. Possible reasons are proffered in some of the postings.
In some cases the use of a computer as a source rather than a CD transport initially seemed to offer some kind of solution at the "cheap" end of the market. However a short visit to PC Audio in AA indicates that the folks there apparently have discovered all sorts of issues when doing this and there are many, many, postings on the need to optimise the computer before the question of a suitable DAC is considered.
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In a perfect world, where DAC is immune to anything that's going on on the computer side, optimizing computer wouldn't matter at all.
In real world though, optimizations on computer ("transport") side are equally important - and INCOMPARABLY more cost-effective - as selecting a suitable DAC.
Those who don't understand this fact, too lazy to do anything about it, or just don't want to bother - are crippling their system's performance, no matter what DAC they have in it.
...there are many, many, postings on the need to optimise the computer before the question of a suitable DAC is considered.
Yes, many many such postings from just a few individuals. But that wouldn't make sense to me. Why would one spend a lot of time optimizing his computer before having a 'suitable' DAC? You need a DAC in order to hear the effects of any computer optimizing so would you propose optimizing the computer around a less than 'suitable' DAC?
The truth is, a good Async DAC will require less computer optimizing. Just a short few years ago we didn't have Aync DACs in which case the effects of computer will be greater than it is today. I would get a good Async DAC first, rather than chase my tail in circles optimizing the computer first.
"so would you propose optimizing the computer around a less than 'suitable' DAC?"I wouldn't propose anything. I merely reported on what I had read from others posting on PC Audio. I have no opinion one way or the other on optimising computers as I don't use them for music.
My purpose was to point out to the OP that many threads already exist which relate to his question.
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Hi and thanks for the valuable reply.
yes the issue is exactly the transport influence on the sound out from the dac.
I would dare to say that a dac whose sound is depending on the transport is not a well designed dac.
There must be something wrong with its design.
Very soon i will try a dac which is marketed with the words "... The secret to the dac's unique qualities lies in a proprietary re-clocking technology ... "
I have already a pretty indecent source to use with it ( a media player just to be precise of which i like the flexibility and the fact that can be controlled from a tablet).
I am expecting no substantial differences between different transports, like it should.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
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