Strong statement from Ed Meitner on external clocks
https://www.stereophile.com/content/...-digital-audio
Quote:
JVS: You don't believe in using an external word clock. Why?
EM: Because I think this is the most stupid thing I've ever heard in the audio business. That means you have a precision clock that you have to connect to a wire to connect to a DAC, when the clock should be straight away where it belongs, inside the DAC, beside the DAC chip, if there is such a thing—not through a cable in a different box. This is so idiotic, it's not even funny. It's a money grab.
JVS: I believe one of the arguments for an external clock is that it offers better shielding from power supplies, and will thus operate better.
EM: Yeah, especially with units [that] have a separate power supply. There's a lot of shielding there. The whole thing is funny.
MP: In our DACs, the reference clock is inside the product and an inherent part of the conversion circuitry. Anything that comes from the outside world, on whatever input we select, is buffered and reclocked, so we don't have to worry about the artifacts of an external clock. Everything is reclocked to our internal reference. That's what we mean by asynchronous clock design.