MAPLESHADE USB-TO-S/PDIF RECLOCKING ADAPTER
Jitter-Removing Computer-To-DAC Interface

Want to play your laptop or desktop computer music files through your great-sounding big rig? A straight USB-to-DAC cable will limit you with severely compromised sound: the USB port’s data stream is jitter laden and even the best of the USB cables degrade the sound further. We have come up with a $189 solution whose sound rivals $20,000 music servers: just plug our Reclocking Adapter into your computer’s USB port, then hook up one of our superb Clearview Digital Interconnects between the dongle’s coax output jack (S/PDIF) and the digital coax input on your present DAC (or any CDP with coax input). The Reclocking Adapter plays any file format up through hi-res 192/24. Its brilliant USB-to-S/PDIF reformatting/reclocking circuit, by audiophile designer Marco Manunta, features two superbly low-jitter clocks that asynchronously buffer and reclock the data to eliminate the USB port’s nasty-sounding jitter. We’ve improved on his gem with 1) a low-dielectric-absorption enclosure (maple) to replace the usual sound-degrading plastic shell and 2) cryogenic treatment of the circuit board.

If you don’t already have a DAC, add our incredibly dynamic Modded DacMagic to the Mapleshade Reclocking Adapter for a truly world class computer-based audio system. If that setup doesn’t match or exceed the sound of the Sooloos, Olive, Linn Klimax or SD Transporter music servers for a fraction of their cost, then you get your money back.