Jon brought up a good point that since we sort of side tracked the other thread, we'll bring this whole discussion into it's own thread.
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Jon,
Bill and I were discussing this all this weekend, that we may need to re-clock our audio. Then it got me thinking if I'm thinking about this right... it helps for me to put into a visual placement of things in my system to make sure I'm on the right track.
So for both of our setups, we currently have things set up this way, Server feeding the audio files to a HTPC (well in my case as Bill uses his server for playback), then outputted via USB to a Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 then coaxial out to our DACs. I just recently added an iFi USB power to the V-Link...but that's not a real difference.
So in our systems, we would build the rubidium clock for 10MHz. Then plug that into Mutec MC-3+, setting it to use the external rubidium clock then place the MC-3+ in-between the V-Link and our DACs. This way the Mutec would re-clock the audio signal with the rubidium clock and feed the DAC with that new signal. At least in my mind that's what we'd be doing. Now if we upgrade to something like the NAD M51, we'd change out the coaxial for AES and eventually remove the V-Link192 as that's another weak point.
Am I thinking correctly about this?
I think as long as you say positive things about this... Bill and I are definitely thinking this is a worth while upgrade path (as well as trying to find a NAD shipping truck and trailing it until something falls off)... ha ha.
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Jon,
Bill and I were discussing this all this weekend, that we may need to re-clock our audio. Then it got me thinking if I'm thinking about this right... it helps for me to put into a visual placement of things in my system to make sure I'm on the right track.
So for both of our setups, we currently have things set up this way, Server feeding the audio files to a HTPC (well in my case as Bill uses his server for playback), then outputted via USB to a Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 then coaxial out to our DACs. I just recently added an iFi USB power to the V-Link...but that's not a real difference.
So in our systems, we would build the rubidium clock for 10MHz. Then plug that into Mutec MC-3+, setting it to use the external rubidium clock then place the MC-3+ in-between the V-Link and our DACs. This way the Mutec would re-clock the audio signal with the rubidium clock and feed the DAC with that new signal. At least in my mind that's what we'd be doing. Now if we upgrade to something like the NAD M51, we'd change out the coaxial for AES and eventually remove the V-Link192 as that's another weak point.
Am I thinking correctly about this?
I think as long as you say positive things about this... Bill and I are definitely thinking this is a worth while upgrade path (as well as trying to find a NAD shipping truck and trailing it until something falls off)... ha ha.
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