Help with wordclock vs adat connection?

[drsakky]

Hello,

I want to get the best out of all my mic pre's I have and I am not sure whether to hook everything up via adat or wordclock.

My current set up is I have a Rme hammerfall 9652 soundcard with a presonus digimax lt, Art gold dmpa pre, jlm ba2 mic pre and a behringer ada8000. I use cubase sx3.

My best mic pre is the JLM audio BA2 which is a 2 channel analogue pre and I have that going line into the ada8000 for conversion with the ada8000 going adat into Rme soundcard.
The digimax is going adat into Rme also (that is the master) and the Art pre is going spidif into Rme card (it also could go adat but I decided to run spidif).

My question is , is this best way to have everything connected to get the best possible sound for what I use? Would connecting via wordclock make a difference, I am not familar with it.
Any help be much appreciated . Thanks

[s.d.finley]

Word clock only sends digital word sync to digital devices. ADAT sends digital audio information and word clock sync. It is best to use the bnc connectors for the word clock, and use the ADAT for digital audio only.

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