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Reference DAC Module - Discrete R-2R Sign Magnitude 24 bit 384 KHz

I choose toslink because:

- No (or insignificant) level of bit error.
- Effective galvanic isolation
- toslink has high(er) jitter due to limited BW. DAM DAC has re-clocker so it should not matter. But I wish it was better.

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One of the very first things i tried with the DAM was feed it from Ian's FIFO on the assumption that an accurate clock signal will require less work from the pll. It certainly sounded different but i could not characterise it as being better. Needless to way i was surprised.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that my i2s signal is in any case low jitter, as it is sourced from a JLSounds XMOS with Crystek oscillators.
 
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One of the very first things i tried with the DAM was feed it from Ian's FIFO on the assumption that an accurate clock signal will require less work from the pll. It certainly sounded different but i could not characterise it as being better. Needless to way i was surprised.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that my i2s signal is in any case low jitter, as it is sourced from a JLSounds XMOS with Crystek oscillators.

Doesn't JLS include some kind of reclocking on their boards anyway?
 
And not only re-clocked - but buffered. I have at least 1 second delay. The clocked I used has a very low close-in noise so it is really stable - this should mean less need for adjustment in the DAM digital PLL and this less DAM clock adjustments.

The clock boards are built into a sealed sphere which in turn is put into a selad sphere which in turn is suspended like a turntable in half-a-sphere. All in 🙄

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And not only re-clocked - but buffered. I have at least 1 second delay. The clocked I used has a very low close-in noise so it is really stable - this should mean less need for adjustment in the DAM digital PLL and this less DAM clock adjustments.

The clock boards are built into a sealed sphere which in turn is put into a selad sphere which in turn is suspended like a turntable in half-a-sphere. All in 🙄

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My future plan is, and I have all the gear for it, to build the Andrea clock, hook it up to 100m of professional opto link and burry it 75m away 1m down into the ground in my garden. Then I will just make an opto->electrical conversion without any oscillator and interface it to a clock-board that drives a DA. I would like this to be a DAM DAC but it might have to be something else I'm afraid.

Sören, make yet another mode which makes the DAC conversion rely totally on the clock without any adjustment - please?

You see, I don't fancy acoustical feedback via the clock.

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I know. Thats why I think the clock solution needs to be more flexible. I believe in the core signal processing and the ladder. If it doesn't happen I will have to switch platform. But I hope not... Note that the post above is purely about the clock and (hopefully) replacing the onboard one - i.e. different from my s/pdif jitter cleaner bowl. I think I can live with a little more random jitter if any music correlated is gone.

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