Genesis Time Lens

Ozzy, its an attempt but still lipstick on a pig. At least theyre trying. I prefer a good spdif direct from a good sound card or mother board. USB sputters and fails to squeeze out what I want to hear. The medium is plainly flawed for serious audio playback.

The Time Lens is an old product and not suited well to anything but CD players since it will overrun with long playlists. Much lower jitter clocks and faster logic interface technology is available now.

I used to mod several older reclockers, including the Monarchy DIP and Big Ben. With mods including a new clock, these were not bad, but nothing like the Synchro-Mesh. The resampling in the SM is a tiny SQ hit. Unless you use my USB interface in a very resolving, low-noise system to compare it to, you will not notice any SQ hit. It beats most transports and USB interfaces, except for my own.

Cerrot knows nothing of the Synchro-Mesh. He is only a constant irritant, like a bunion.

30-day money-back, less shipping so its low-risk to try one.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Hello Steve,

If my collection of music streaming from my laptop is ripped from my CD collection will upgrading from the Time Lens be worth it? I mentioned the Time Lens will overrun with long playlist. I am not sure I follow.

Thank you!

steve will offer no assistance to you other than
assisting you to purchase his products - 30 day money
back. At least bunions go away. The sychro mess is not
bit perfect - yet he never mentions it when he touts it.
says its not important. (sounds important) BUT, his more
expensive produts are bit perfect.

Rich - lower jitter will always make an improvement in the system sound, no matter what DAC you use.

The Time lens is designed as a large buffer that buffers an entire track, and multiple tracks. It is designed so that worst-case a full CD of tracks will still not overflow the buffer even if the difference in clock frequency between the CD player and the TL is at the maximum.

Playlists are another thing. There is no limit to the number of tracks that you can put in a playlist. Also, computer device outputs are often much further out of spec for frequency than CD players, based on my measurements, so it is fairly easy to overflow the buffer in the TL. IF this happens, you will not get jitter rejection and likely a lot of noise.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio