dCS Lina Master Clock Reviews

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“The Lina Clocker….essentially first impressions is it’s not a bang in your face night and day difference where you go wow straight away and notice a big margin in improvement…well wasn’t for me anyway. But as you hear each track you start to notice those old favourite tracks within just a few tracks sounding different. Just sounding more cohesive timing wise with the start/ stop of notes with the leading edges and trailing resonation of notes just seem to all align more precisely and accurately where your ears just make more sense of the information because it just sound so much more natural flow to the music than before. Because of this instruments with the extra detail in each note sound more vibrant, with more body and texture making it all just sound that more realistic in their tonal quality’s when a note is being played. These little incremental improvements of even smaller subtle details able to come to the fore all add up to a bigger difference over all and just seems to have a better clarity, accuracy and more transparency with a more locked in focus to the timing sounding even more involving (not that it wasn’t before, but it really does go another level with the clocker activated). This in turn the soundstage and imaging as a result can sound not just bigger but more enveloping and involving as it’s seems to fire notes more accurately into the different places in space between you and the speakers starts to make it more lively and memorising to listen to with this newly added layer of laser precision timing and placement of every note. It wasn’t until i turned off the clocker for a hour or so after having it for a few weeks it really is like a crikey moment! you can clearly hear what the clocker brings to the table or what it is missing without it. Good as the Lina Dac is on it’s own but without it in comparison it sounds disjointed, like you are willing certain notes to catch with the rest of the music as it feels out for sync and sluggish where notes should start and finish and becomes just a little muddy with the extra finer details not coming through as a result and the snap and rhythm in the dynamics of songs just feels lost and a song not so foot tappie and you feel not so connected to the music without it. With it those smaller details in the timing of notes really does make instruments just sound more realistic in their rendering with what you hear which in turns just brings you that much closer to how it should sound, real! When you are used to the clocker then take it away and £7500k is not exactly a cheap upgrade but for me from experience it is definitely worth the upgrade to the already excellent Lina Dac and actually under estimated how much this clocker really does do in terms of performance uplift and if you can do it as from now owning it for a few months i personally preferred this over the Bartok on it’s own unless you then have another £9k to upgrade on top of the Bartok price with the Clocker that goes with the Bartok to another level. This Lina combination is a definitely worth saving up the extra beans to have sitting next to or under your Lina Dac as it may look like a luxury add on or a lot of money for such an upgrade and probably for some the most boring hifi upgrade to look at doing that won’t exactly excite some but an external clocker for any Dac really can take it to that next level i personally glad ended up doing that for what was already a very good Lina Dac that was above a lot of other Dacs out there costing a lot of money so for anyone out there wandering who is looking at the Lina Dac or already has one do not over look the clocker and highly recommend having a very in depth listen and promise you will not go back! P.s. It’s good also to once in a blue moon to turn off the clocker just to remind ones self how much the clocker really does but not too often though as it takes 24-48 hours for the clocker to reset and settle down again as the clocks are that sensitive!”

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