KaiS wrote:ADI-2 Pro, due to it’s “Stead Clock FS”, preserves the same audio quality running as clock master or slave.
So it boils down to a question of convenience and usability.
Personally I prefer configurations where the DAW / recording software defines and switches the sample rate.
This eases the use when working on multiple projects and prevents erroneous running unlocked or on the wrong sample rate, with possible catastrophic results.
Also my preference. Easy to achieve at single speed up to 48kHz, with double/quad speed you need to take care, as the clock slave has no possibility to determine port multiplexing. So you need to use SPDIF based connections like ADAT in SPDIF protocol (of the driver/hw allows) or AES which are 2ch protocols from 32-192 kHz.
I don't remember how it was with Word Clock in my MADI setup, I think even there the recognition of double/quad speed was not possible (not 100% sure, long time ago and I only use single speed at the moment, higher sample rates only for playback.
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