#Word clock gearslutz mod
#Word clock gearslutz mods

#Word clock gearslutz mods

In the audiophool arena there are a plethora of people offering clock mods and add ons. But the guys that designed the 003 are likely not fools either. Some manufactures don't mind these activities, it almost allows them a second model, and a sale is a sale. By bypassing some of the mark ups inherent in the basic equipment's manufacture they might even be cost effective.

#Word clock gearslutz mod

There is no doubt that all product designs are driven by price, and that an after market mod can address some shortcomings. Things are getting better now.Īfter market modifications are funny things. In the past audio designers and digital designers have proven rather inept at getting clocks right. Not just in generating but in reticulating the clock though a system. It is radio frequency design and involves some level of black magic. On the other hand creating stable high quality clocks is not trivial. Stability of the clocks is critical to the performance of digital systems. If you only have one converter it is very very difficult to imagine a case where anything other than worse performance will result fro external clocking. Especially where you need to synchronise already very high quality devices. This is why one has very high quality external clock systems, so that they degrade things as little as possible. What you can see here is that far from improving the stability of the internal clock, an external clock can pretty much only make things worse. (The manner in which the circuit does this is to detect the phase difference between the two signals, hence the term Phase Locked Loop). Very often synchronising the internal clock is simply a matter of applying a feedback loop around a control signal for the internal clock generator, tweaking it so that it stays in sync. Often well into the megahertz, but dependant upon the exact ADC design. Internally the ADC is supposed to use this signal to synchronise or generate its own clock - which will run at typically much higher frequencies to drive the ADC. They simply tell the ADC (or DAC) to stay in sync at a given sample rate.

They are what they say they are - the word clock.

The external clock signals are often somewhat misinterpreted. To briefly put into context Peeder's comments.