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manisandher wrote:

Surely, you're not going to find anyone more knowledgeable than Keith Johnson in this respect... and he uses the Model Two in Master mode (with the Lynx card)!

Which does not necessarily mean everything in my view.

manisandher wrote:

You know, I'm really surprised at your attitude. I understand that if experimenting were to be costly that you'd want to ask 'experts' first to make certain that your investments might be worthwhile. Now, it seems you've spent an inordinate amount of time experimenting in other areas of audio and yet in this case you're reluctant to. But trying Master mode would cost you nothing. NOTHING! Why not just try it and see what happens? Then by all means see if you can explain the result by asking the 'experts'. This seems a complete 'no-brainer' to me.

Sure, it is valid argument and I will definitely try, all that I need to do it going to storage and find my custom Lynx cable with clock lead that I ordered for a while back. There are however some “minor things” that I question.

Lynx card in a way is freaky. Whoever the cloaking mode the card is it switches to internal clock if the external clock is not there. They did it very nicely and very transparent and it is in way a main bitch. When Lynx locks the external clock with it’s SynchroLock (it takes 30-40 seconds) then it is fine. Then when the external clock is switched the Lynx turned to run from own internal clock and the SynchroLock is still stay engaged. My point is that the configuration and indication of Lynx suggests that it use external clock but in really it is not. In the mode what the outputs the signals everything is even more confusing as I have no clear reference where the Lynx’s clock sourced from. The fact that I have the cable connected from Pacific is NOT an assurance that Lynx USES Pacific’s clock. What I would like to see in Lynx is that when the externals clock is no good then the card shall not work and throw some kind of error. Lynx does not do it. Furthermore when I switch Lynx in high resolution clock tracing then you might see different rate of the clocks variation between Lynx and Pacific. So, when I see the Pacific’s AES line clock variation then I presume that Lynx clock in slave mode shall inherent the same variations. But it does not and the variation more like the Lynx’s internal clock Lynx. That all makes me doubt with what is doing on.

Anyhow, here is Lynx’s clocking diagrams, as you can see they do not treat external clock any different from any other clock. BTW, the recording mode (and I tested it many times in 1X mode) the LINE 1 clocking has no disadvantage over external clock from Pacific.

Anyhow, I agree that I need to try it…

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