This person maybe right up your alley with his review and seems align close to M0N so I deem it trustworthy without hearing the May myself.
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I really liked the may but unfortunately it kinda only was on my desk for like 4 to 5 weeks, because I ended up scoring some deals on higher tier dacs, and the may just didn’t compare lol, but I really liked it when I had it, was very solid
I had my spring 2 kte for longer though previously and it served me well
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What’s interesting to me. Is that the Terminator plus has an internal clock it uses that can also export out to other dacs/devices that have clock inputs.
I mean when you put a high tier clock in there, you might as well give people the option to use it with their other components lol. I recently added a master clock to my main living room setup and it was a fairly sizable difference (also an oven clock like the plus lol)
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Yeah, I was thinking about getting the terminator Plus and that Sotm USB thing that can reclock with a 75Ohm input and use that with my chord Dac
Sometimes usb reclockers can help, sometimes they don’t, I would check to see what other people experience before going with one of those. Personally I’ve found that going to a really nice streamer or network bridge really helps out sound quality, worthwhile investment sound wise
The holo stuff does recommend using their other tools for USB to whatever source. I’m going to hold back on that personally on the Spring 2 (eventually).
The spring 2 and may had pretty good usb though, the spring 1 did not lol. But if you have a nice DDC that can improve sound quality later on, but you aren’t missing out on much with only usb on the spring 2 or may imo
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We used a high end master clock for our encoders at work. It would sync rhe encodes and the camera times. Im guessing its aomething different but you didnt go out and get an evertz master clock did you?
Also what does badly clocked audio sound like? Clicks and artifacts or just not as clean?
It’s an auralic leo gx.1 and it’s really damn good. A good clock can really improve sound quality in a dac, so typically clock upgrade are pretty worthwhile if you have the option to (but it really depends on the clock, the dac, and the situation)
I mean typically if you have poorly clocked enough you will just get errors or garbage, but a mediocre but not terrible clock might add some artifacts that aren’t apparent at first listen but you realize that you get poor spatial recreation and time domain issues, just generally doesn’t sound as good and sounds more spatially lifeless. For studio a master clock is important so you can properly make sure they are all working together lol
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Yeah on set we have clocks built into our audio recorders to sync time code and video via limo so assistant editors can automatically sync stuff for edit. Where before that you had to do it via Clapper board
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That sounds painful lol
Eh I’ve done it before so long as the clap is loud there is a spike on the waveform to match to the strike point via markers
It takes longer but you get into a rhythm
In avid you just mark the peak on the wave
Mark when the Clapper strikes in the video and there is a sync to markers function in a sub menu somewhere.
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I’ve had to do that, I just have a really shit mouse and I tend to be a bit shaky so I would line it up just right then screw it up later on, which would piss me off more than it should lol, but I was just using an older copy of vegas so no cool features
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Oh god I hate Vegas so much lol
But yeah. Each nle has it’s own quirks
Avid is submenus and customization to the nth degree and break everything if you flip the wrong switch
Premiere is fluidity between the Adobe ecosystem and ease of use and break everything if you flip the wrong switch
Davinci resolve is complex integration with ecosystem and deep control of the image chain and absolutely break everything if you flip the wrong switch
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Yeah no idea about video editing lol I just had to use what I had on hand, for audio I mainly use magix sequoia, steinberg wavelab and sometimes audition lol
I’ve used protools and audition myself
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Gotcha, i know the ones we use are 30-60k and i know youre really into this but that into it?
At the mlb we had to sync cam feeds from the stadiums to a strobe light. Crews on site had to turn all cams on and look at the light which blinked ever few seconds. That light could only be turned on for 2 minutes and it was a manual switch. We then had to line up the frames so they were in sync with the blinks. This was their master idea. No clue on the on/off light decay, camera walk, etc that made it very troublesome
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I can’t really see myself needing another clock anytime soon lol, although perhaps I might need one for my desk (prob not lol)