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<blockquote data-quote="Tamas Tako" data-source="post: 115675" data-attributes="member: 2591">Re: X32 v2 RTAHm... Snakeoil..... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> as you surely know, the quality of a digital signal depends on just a few things:(technically) bit depth, sample rate and jitter (amplitude resolution, time resolution and sample timing accuarcy respectively). With a given ADC and/or DAC the signal quality depends only on the Jitter of the Clock. Now with different clocking options you get different Jitter. ---&gt; different signal quality.the only way to really get rid of the influence of the jitter is to use a FiFo buffer ASRC, with very precise &quot;secondar side&quot; clock, to which you will reclock the incoming digital signal stream.the effect on the sound in the actual test was, that with the DL251 Clock the sound was smoother but more accurate, as it would be less noise there which was covering all the fine details with the X-32&#039;s internal clock. This difference however was not that big, as the input circuit caused differences. I would say, i am not sure i would hear this difference in a real live gig situation. In the studio test the difference was altrough clearly there.Cheers,Tamas</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tamas Tako, post: 115675, member: 2591"] Re: X32 v2 RTA Hm... Snakeoil..... :-) as you surely know, the quality of a digital signal depends on just a few things: (technically) bit depth, sample rate and jitter (amplitude resolution, time resolution and sample timing accuarcy respectively). With a given ADC and/or DAC the signal quality depends only on the Jitter of the Clock. Now with different clocking options you get different Jitter. ---> different signal quality. the only way to really get rid of the influence of the jitter is to use a FiFo buffer ASRC, with very precise "secondar side" clock, to which you will reclock the incoming digital signal stream. the effect on the sound in the actual test was, that with the DL251 Clock the sound was smoother but more accurate, as it would be less noise there which was covering all the fine details with the X-32's internal clock. This difference however was not that big, as the input circuit caused differences. I would say, i am not sure i would hear this difference in a real live gig situation. In the studio test the difference was altrough clearly there. Cheers, Tamas [/QUOTE]

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