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Originally Posted by jamwerks  TheBlue1,
I'm pretty sure that it was in that thread that Dan Lavery stated that external clocking might be better if the internal one is of really low quality. I myself asked him that question. Not 100% sure but that's my recollection.......  |
It's my recollection (and I revisit parts of that thread from time to time to refresh myself) that he allowed that that was a
possibility but that it was quite unlikely for the reasons outlined above (which I have cribbed shamelessly from Mr Lavry).
I'm more than happy to correct myself, if I've erred, I think that's important. But I'm
pretty sure I've got the gist of Lavry's reasoning here.
As I noted indirectly, one place where the kind of juju that a good external clock
can really come in handy is in a complex rig where one is forced to slave to a dicey clock source (for whatever reasons)... In
that case, the abilty of something like a Big Ben to
correct for jitter and clean up
incoming clock and then pass that "de-jittered" signal down the line would, indeed, be valuacanble. But, typically, I suspect most folks with a smaller rig would use a properly terminated daisy chain, or, if the rig is more complex, perhaps a dedicated clock either at the front of a daisy chain or in a one-to-many routing.