Most high-end DACs suffer from "clock jitter," which smears transients and collapses the soundstage horizon. The Xsonoro 514 utilizes a triple-oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) array, stabilizing timing to a femtosecond level. This creates a temporal precision so acute that listeners report hearing the "air moving inside a flute" for the first time.
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