Happy to toss in my 2 cents. I'm no audio engineer, but I'm a music lover, trained musician across quite a few instruments, and have played/orchestrated/arranged and listened to live music in a variety of venue types (which I recognize in an audiophile community is very common of course! I'm always humbled reading these forums!). What I can say is that to my ears (and a few others who have heard it) and in my particular audio setup the PaceCar2 reclocker has had a surprisingly positive impact. I've had it for almost 2 weeks as has been breaking in nicely. I use the Transporter, feed the PaceCar, SPDIF to a Meridian 568.2 (which I recognize isn't as good as today's 2 ch DACs of equivalent price or even lower as it's a few years old now, but very musical and impressive for a multi-channel processor when paired with quality cabling/power/etc.). I have it set up to do A/B comparisons between (1) Transporter's analog output (using it's internal DAC), (2) T's digital coax output using Meridian's DAC, and (3) Toslink out to PaceCar to Meridian. Frankly the comparison is almost silly to the point that it's a tad depressing switching back to (1) or (2). Listening to 24/96 music is truly a treat with this system.
I don't have any personal experience with the Benchmark DAC or some of the top DAC's in the market today to know if the relative impact on performance would be the same or not, so just giving you all one data point. -- silverlight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ silverlight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63796 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
