Sonore opticalRendu

[aKnyght]

Let me say that there are various oscillators in play here and some have nothing to do with the other except as John has talked about in his white papers. There are two audio oscillators in your DAC for analog conversion. There is a oscillator in your DAC for the digital input. There are two different oscillators in the opticalRendu for USB/CPU and network. There is are oscillator in your other network gear. There are oscillators in your computer.

thanks for the reply but let me ask the question again without using the word “clock” as my question is about how the opticalRendu interacts with RAAT.

before:
[transport + ROCK] --> usb cable --> [t+a dac 8 dsd]

after:
[transport + ROCK] --> fiber --> [opticalRendu] --> usb cable --> [t+a dac 8 dsd]

in the before configuration, RAAT functions such that the DAC pulls the data from roon player running on the transport according to its (the DAC’s) internally generated timing.

in the after configuration, an opticalRendu is inserted into the signal path. my question is simply: will the opticalRendu in any way change how RAAT delivers the signal to my DAC in comparison to the before configuration? stated another way, is the opticalRendu simply passing through the signal making the after configuration functionally identical to the before configuration in terms of RAAT?

thanks!

quick implementation question: is it possible to assign the opticalRendu a static IP address?