Thank you, this is precisely what I was wondering about. Lavry and Katz seem to have stated previously that clocking your converters externally will only help if your converters are broken to begin with... but I think if those guys had to work with a MOTU unit for a while then they'd come to the conclusion that MOTU's converters pretty much ARE broken.
It's still bugging me that Black Lion seems to no longer offer the internal clock mod for MOTU. Obviously this should bolster sales of their external clock, but as far as audio quality goes I have a hunch that the external clock is an inferior solution.
What's weirder is that they seem to still be offering to replace the internal clock in the 002 (maybe because 002 doesn't have BNC in, so their external clock would be useless?) and possibly the 003 though I'm not positive about that one.
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Originally Posted by Brad McGowan  I read the Bob Katz book as well and it does say that the best clock source will be the internal one. But Bob is not referring to cheap prosumer gear like MOTU stuff. The MOTU clock is absolute crap. Everyone knows it. That gear is designed to hit a price point. I would wager that anyone with two ears and a brain between them can easily hear the improvement made to the MOTU converters by a) syncing their MOTU gear to the clock of a higher end unit and/or b) upgrading the analog stages of the converters with the BLA mods. I've had my Traveler modded. I own a Mytek 8x192 as well. I did extensive tests pre and post mod with extreme rigor and the sound clips I made were actually up on the BLA site for a while. |