So any clock you transmit over an S/PDIF connection that is also carrying audio signals will be probably worse than any internal clock. This turns out to be a non-trivial task, and one that almost always leaves the recovered clock contaminated with signal correlated jitter artefacts. The receiver is supposed to recover the clock from this signal as well as extract the audio data. This is because it combines the clock and audio coding onto the same signal. S/PDIF is a horrendously poorly designed interface. Even proper word clock distribution systems are far from ideal, but S/PDIF is particularly flawed, and should have no role in any transmission that involves clock recovery. You can reasonably (but not ideally) send a clock over an S/PDIF interface if the interface does not carry any audio signal, but even then the poor bandwidth of the interface does not lend itself to particularly accurate clock reticulation.Ĭlocks are hard. So any clock you transmit over an S/PDIF connection that is also carrying audio signals will probably be worse than any internal clock.
Is there anything inherently shaky in clocking through a SPDIF connection? Second, if there is something inherently shaky in SPDIF, could I still use the Clock out on the Mytek into the Delta's Clock in, or does the SPDIF connection supersede all of that?
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In that scenario, am I still getting the full advantage of the Mytek's superior clock, i.e., is there anything inherently shaky in clocking through a SPDIF connection?
When the Delta 1010 receives SPDIF, it defaults to the clock of the incoming signal (excuse my clumsy language.). To get the audio from the Mytek into the DAW, I would need to SPDIF it through the Delta 1010 first. So.in my none-too-slutty rig, the Delta 1010 has word clock in and SPDIF in.
I would get two class converters, and I've also been led to believe over the years that there may be advantages associated with clocking the Delta 1010 externally The Black Lion critique of the 1010, for example focuses largely on doubts about its clock. Looking, for example, at the Mytek Stereo96 ADC. I am currently using a Delta 1010 and would like to either replace it with a bank of better converters/interface or, quite possibly, augment it with more of a gold channel ADC and stick with the 1010s DACs until a future upgrade.