Power conditioner

@seymour-krelborn 

That's lingo common in Audiogon Threads. +1 is similar to a thumbs up- means respondent agrees with post in question. I've had similar positive experiences with the Berkely Alpha Design Alpha USB interface. Plan to post about it separately when I have time. Will provide link in this thread when I do.

@bosssound 

Thanks.  The part that threw me was you wrote "BAD".

I thought that perhaps you meant that the Alpha box was bad or its USB interface was bad.

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I've had similar positive experiences with the Berkely Alpha Design Alpha USB interface.

@seymour-krelborn 

My streamer uses an asynchronous chip, which means the clock is on the chip. It does not use the clock on the CD player's transport, so I can't really put anything in between them.

@audio-b-dog 

I am trying to figure this out.  But I do not think that your streamer's clock is what you will ultimately hear, because the streamer will feed the re-clocker, and the re-clocker feeds your DAC.

Your streamer is just another hop along the way from some internet based music service.  Ultimately, the device / re-clocker / transport that is connected directly to your DAC would have the final say on clocking and affect the sound quality of your DAC.

Where I had written "your streamer (any model) will sound much better", I should have written: "your DAC (any model) will sound much better, regardless of the streamer"

That is my understanding.  But I am still learning.  Please correct me if I am mistaken.

I think it's more complicated with an asynchronus DAC. I don't think my CD player's clock is used. I heard that from my dealer, but I haven't had a chance to check out all the technical stuff.