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There was one of those PC Audio demo show in CA. The AA guy, John Swenson, when there, posted his comments

http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/5/55409.html

I do not extend a lot of credit to those demos; I also do not extend a lot of credit to Mr. Swenson as he is declaratively associated with Chris Connaker, who is a stinky high resolution hi-fi whore. Still, there were 2 interesting moments that picked my attention in John’s comments.

First I was wondering why the Berkeley Boys who were in there did not run their new converter but used the 10 years old Pacific DAC? That is against the rule!

Second, John Swenson wrote:

“This consisted of 4 systems, a Matan server (custum built server) a silent PC running XP, a G5 Mac and a modern MacPro. All the systems had Lynx AES 16 cards (the MacPro was PCIe, the others were PCI) each connected to its own Pacific Microsonics Model 2 machine via AES. The model 2s sent a clock back to the Lynx cards so the Model 2 was the master.”

This was the exact subject of my interest as in this case the following component – DAC driver the source component (Lynx card). With all assurance that Pacific’s clock is better I still do not feel comfortable to put the carriages ahead of horns. If Pacific and Lynx support asynchronous type of interface then the location of the clock I presume would not be a mater. In the AES case however, I do not know…

Sure, Keith Johnson knows what he does…but why in fact he does? There are many alternative voices of his level of expertise that would find this view controversial. Still, it looks like Mr. Johnson is another person who runs Pacific in master clock configuration is D/A mode…

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