| Improve the clocking of your monitors... since you can't get around them being there
One thing missed regarding the monitoring is that he is using JBL 4300 series monitors - DIGITAL monitors. There is no way to get around the fact that the monitors have AD/DA converters on board. Since I have used the 2192 with my JBL 4326 monitors, I found the best sound resulted from just going into them digitally via AES/EBU or S/PDIF and benefiting from the clocking of the 2192 (and cutting out the additional D/A to A/D stage in the process). The absence of whatever jitter that might have been present in the chain improved EVERYTHING. Though you will hear a new character injected into the audio if you decide to monitor through the DA of the 2192 into the JBL 4300 monitors, the clock in the JBL (when fed analog signal) may be smearing any benefit the 2192 imparts upon the signal coming out of it's DA.
You'll definitely want to mute or turn off your monitors when making any kind of change on the panel of the 2192. POPS and other potentially damaging digital annoyances occur when switching clock source, rates, converter signal sources/routing, etc. The handy-dandy remote that the JBLs have makes this a snap. |