There is only one situation where the word clock in is useful: you have a DAC with a very low jitter internal clock AND it can output a word clock derrived from that internal clock. You connect one of the digital outs from the TP to the DAC and the word clock from the DAC to the TP. This "slaves" the TP to the clock in the DAC.
Note that there are problems with this setup, the TP runs at the sample rate of the DAC, so you have to choose the sample rate at the DAC, not the source of the music. For example if your DAC is sending out a 44.1KHz word clock the TP can ONLY play music at 44.1 (because it is slaved to the DAC). If you want to play a 96 KHz file you must either change the frequency of the wordclock coming out of the DAC, or resample the 96 file in the server. You have to be careful with undertsanding what is meant by a word clock and a master clock. A word clock is a stream of pulses at the frequency of the sample rate, 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 96KHz etc. The term "master clock" has two different meanings: 1) a word clock that is connected to multiple devices, thus synching them all together, thus it is the "master". 2) a high frequency clock running at a much higher frequency than the sample rate, common ones are 11.2896MHz, 12.288MHz, 22.5792MHz, 24.576MHz. These numbers sound weird but they are multiples of the common sample rates, 11.2896MHz is 256 X 44.1KHz. The TP only accepts a wordclock, NOT a high frequency master clock. Thus if the DAC just outputs a high frequency master clock you cannot use it with the TP. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96421 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
