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There doesn't seem to be any end in sight for this debate.
The definitive technical answer seems to be <b>no</b>, there is no reason why syncing a low-end convertor/interface to a high-end master clock would help anything.
Yet people continue to report an improvement in sound quality. The difference would appear to be purely subjective. Maybe as previously stated it is simply due to secondhand aspects of installing the clock, the adjustment of cables and the like.
Or people could simply be hearing artifacts created by jitter, and actually finding them pleasant.
It should be apparent that a large number of people <i>are</i> in fact under the mistaken impression that an external clock will bypass your device's internal clock. I'm not sure how this misinformation started spreading, but if anything along the lines of "shilling" has occurred I'd blame Apogee or Mytek sooner than Black Lion. (Particularly Apogee... it seems like nobody found word clocks to be all that exciting until Apogee decided they were. And I suppose Lavry has inadvertently contributed to the hype by attempting to debunk them.)
It's kind of sad... Black Lion was really my only hope of ditching the MOTU's weak internal clock, but with their internal mod discontinued I'm apparently stuck with it. I suppose I'll move up to a lynx someday and the 828 will be relegated to headphone mixer duty.
Still I'll give the microclock a shot and learn if it has any of that subjective effect that people have cited from using mytek clocks, big ben, etc.
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