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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.
It would be great if MOTU just hired Matt and implemented his design tweaks into their gear. In the meantime though if you get a used 828 on Ebay for $500 and a get the BLA mods for $300 then you're coming out way ahead of anything in the $1k-$2k price range. Granted the Aurora is a good deal but you do need to buy a Lynx AES card or similar to use it.
Even Slipperman has BLA modded MOTU units I think.
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You seem to be under the mistaken impression that supplying an external clock source removes the internal clock from the picture.
In reality, trying to sync to an external clock source will likely make a bad implementation deliver even
less accurate timing and produce more jitter, as it struggles to sync itself to the external source.