Quote Originally Posted by Telstar View Post
Hey Leo,

Did you replace the XO? The supplied one is of very low quality. With 20-50$ you should have already something v. good.

The 80mhz crystek XO isn't bad, problem is finding a suitable SMD replacement type.
Using a through hole XO on a separate board sounded worse even when it was wired as close as possible to the dac, I have tried it

I've compared XO's from Tent and Trichord before when modding cdp's , using a high quality low noise regulator the different XO's only made a small difference , much smaller than the differences between regulation