tomg wrote:I use UCX and ADI-2 FS Pro and the way it's set up is that UCX is connected to PC via USB, and ADI-2 connected to UCX via SPDIF where ADI-2 gets clock from UCX which is master (my speakers are connected to ADI-2 output via XLR). @ramses has some nice diagrams for this which is what I used to set it up. Works great and I could not be happier with sound quality when listening - not sure what if anything I'm giving up by having UCX master clock master vs ADI-2 (but I'm thinking it must be theoretical if it sounds this good).
Hi,
Thank you for this message. Could you make a test with ADI-2 FS as master? I'm a bit confused as I know that Steady Clock is the latest clock generation of RME, but at the same time if the FS is slave, the sound remain the same:
"With SteadyClock FS the focus was put on reducing the self jitter of SteadyClock to new lows, by improving its second, analog PLL circuit, and referencing both Direct Digital Synthesis and PLL to a low phase noise quartz crystal. The self jitter measured through DA conversion now reaches levels that usually are only available in master quartz clock mode, while SteadyClock still always runs in PLL mode - no matter if internal or external clock, sound is exactly the same (again). The low phase noise oscillator driving the updated circuit reaches jitter specs lower than a picosecond (ps), an area called FemtoSecond. Hence SteadyClock FS."