Naim DAC

Posted by: Mauricio Ichi on 13 October 2018

Why does DAC lose sync using cd player as transport?
Sound quality is perceptibly worse without synchronization.
I'm using Plinius CD-101 + Digtal Siltech Golden Eagle CD and Hi-Line cable to connect SN

Posted on: 14 October 2018 by Guinnless

Your post appears to be corrupt. Could you 're-write it please?

Posted on: 14 October 2018 by Simon-in-Suffolk

The Naim DAC will loose sync if the transport clock of your SPDIF source does not match closely enough the recognised SPDIF transport clocks for certain sample rates.. when this happens the Naim DAC will do is best to adapt to the source clock rate but this produces a less stable clock for the DSP and DAC chips and so SQ will be compromised.

Posted on: 14 October 2018 by MDS

And if it does this, I thought you can tell because the sync-lock light goes out?

Posted on: 14 October 2018 by Mauricio Ichi

Thank you for your support.
The sync-lock light goes out because the CD Player's clock does not match the DAC clock.
But what I would like to know is, how not to lose SQ using a synchronized transport or which transport / player works as syncronized in this case.