Ultra's Clock vs External DAC's Clock??

[Nedmundo]

Swapping from coax to usb to my Denafrips Ares ii made a very noticeable difference to me. I'd argue the USB out alone makes the upgrade to the Ultra worthwhile

 

[Witterings]

Just thought I'd update for anyone that may be interested ..... I moved everything around last night so I could reach the Qutest and easily toggle between inputs and the difference in sound was quite significant, everything is "fuller / richer" and overall it has more "command" .... that almost sounds like it could be too rich / erring on muddy but it's just not.
As a matter of interest I also tried coax out from the Nano into the Chord and there was a similar step back in quality, in fact it almost sounded unpleasant in comparison.

Ultra's on sale today so have ordered one, will get here on Friday when the testing will continue

 

[Valimir]

Swapping from coax to usb to my Denafrips Ares ii made a very noticeable difference to me. I'd argue the USB out alone makes the upgrade to the Ultra worthwhile

For me too! I have a decent T+A dac and using USB out brings quite an improvement (to be honest I was quite surprised by how much!)

 

[dtc]

USB is asynchronous data package transfer, while SPDIF Toslink and Coax is a PCM synchronous bit stream.

USB can be either synchronous or asynchronous and Wiim supports both modes. Async is most common.

 

[Vignus]

Even though I usually don't like to, I will join the chorus and declare that even in my case USB out (to my Gustard) sounds way better, richer, fuller, then coax or optical out into the same DAC