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Suppose you had a Digi 001, or 002, RME HDSP 9652, etc etc you get the
message and were getting your analog signal into either of these devices via
a mutual external A/D using the SPDIF input.......would it all be the same?
Is there another link somewhere that would affect the quality of inputted
signal? Excluding mic pres and all that stuff.

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I can only speak for the RME 9652, but you will want, depending on the
converter that is feeding the 9652, to either clock the 9652 to the
converter or vice versa using a high quality (I use Zaolla, but have also
used Canare and found them to be fine) 75 ohm cable with BNC M-M connectors.
Make the necessary settings for the respective devices to be master and
slave.

I have found the clock in the RME 9652 to be quite good. and though I
haven't done any scientific measurements, as far as what my ears are hearing
when I A/B them, I also have a Lucid GenX6 word clock module and though it's
not the most expensive in the world, I've found it more than adequate and I
think the RME clock is at least the equal of the clock in the Lucid GenX6

Doug Joyce
Animix Productions
Durango, CO
http://www.graphicresultsofdurango [...] tudio.html

"a.m." <acmost@bellsouth.not> wrote in message
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> Suppose you had a Digi 001, or 002, RME HDSP 9652, etc etc you get the
> message and were getting your analog signal into either of these devices
via
> a mutual external A/D using the SPDIF input.......would it all be the
same?
> Is there another link somewhere that would affect the quality of inputted
> signal? Excluding mic pres and all that stuff.
>
>
>
>
>
> merry merry at:
> http://tinyurl.com/62z86
>
>

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<< "a.m." acmost@bellsouth.not >>
<< Suppose you had a Digi 001, or 002, RME HDSP 9652, etc etc you get the
message and were getting your analog signal into either of these devices via
a mutual external A/D using the SPDIF input.......would it all be the same? >>

Once it's digital it's digital, so all things being equal yes. Unless
all things are not equal and the signal is degraded by jitter or an unstable
clock.

<< Is there another link somewhere that would affect the quality of inputted
signal? Excluding mic pres and all that stuff. >>

You might like to set up your studio to slave to the best quality clock
you have, and use good not too long cable to avoid jitter.

But one nice spdif cable I have - a Canare - is longer on the male part of
the rca jack than any other I have, and when I plug it into my Dat it screws it
up totally. So I have used an el Cheapo RCA cable on occasion for transfers
with my DAT instead cause it works better! Go figure.

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

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