Continuing exploring what makes a streamer tick, my Accusilicon clocks finally arrived:
Replaced what came with my Pi reclocker:
New clocks installed:
This is one of my top 3 hmmmm, uh-ah moments in my hi-fi jorney.
Answered my question why the top top tier streamers sounding very analog. The clocks have a major role in sound amongst many many many other varibles.
Hard core, dude!
with DS MKII DAC? which connection do you use - USB/I2S ?
Yes, with MKII lastest firmware and Massive. via a I2S HAT from the Pi reclocker.
Sooo, now we are at least two who hear difference in streamer clocks with MKII (in my case software tuning only). This is most intriguing to me, as Ted in some other thread replied to me that MKII is unaffected by jitter, but that it could be rather the noise signature modulated from the RPi.
I’m currently running RPi4 USB directly to MKII , but was testing this originally also via Matrix2 I2S with similar results which I found even more confusing as Matrix should isolate and reclock anyways 
To be honest, with massive update, and if I’m lazy, I’d be a happy camper with just a Pi 4’s USB 3.0 into MKII for a very long time.
Still trouble’s me how good the USB ports from the barebone Pi 4 sounded.
Yes one of mine is a plain Pi4 (in one of those excellent Flirc cases) running it’s native USB, and it works a treat and sounds very good indeed
DAC dependent no doubt (RME adi2 dac fs).
The Pi 3 USB, not so much…
(which is why I use the Pi 3 with a “HAT” for SPDIF out)
That Pi stack of yours looks very impressive though, it is tempting to indulge…
I like the idea of a stack of Pies. 
No… wait… 
That’s a great dac, I have it on my puter desk. Love that little screen
My Pi stack is for learning purpose only, but I had a lot of fun. Sound improvement is very marginal. YMMV
I prefer very low jitter pork pies.
A DAC should have a DSP (as mine do), if only for tweaking speaker response etc.
And silver. We all know silver sounds better
This is the way.
Like a paint, a sculpture or an elegant woman in Paris… don’t know why this piece of gear is able to communicate beauty’s quintessence!
Like so many singers, they are as beautiful to look at as they sound.
“Beauty is in the eyes of… ‘ Naahhh I’m Italian, Beauty is objective!
Hearing Ted talking about it is one thing. Hearing the clock itself with my own ears is an entirely different experience. It takes religon by simply watching a youtube video then just leave it at that. That’s not how my brain works. Great video though, watched it many times.
I haven’t seen one of these for sale in a while. It’s Ethernet in and I²S out. Built like a tank.
