Synchro-Mesh Reclocker

About the Synchro-Mesh Reclocker

The Empirical Audio Synchro-Mesh is an outboard two-channel PCM S/PDIF/Toslink reclocker and asynchronous sample-rate converter (ASRC). It sits between a digital source—such as a CD transport, streamer, Sonos unit, Apple TV, or similar source—and a DAC, processor, or receiver. Rather than passing the incoming stream bit-perfectly, it resamples the signal to one factory-specified output rate and regenerates timing from its internal low-jitter clock. Empirical Audio specifies approximately 7 ps jitter at the end of a 4 ft coaxial cable for the later/improved version. It is offered in 44.1 kHz or 96 kHz output-rate configurations, with a front-panel 16-/24-bit output selection. The current Empirical Audio product page still lists the Synchro-Mesh, so it should not be considered discontinued, although connector arrangements vary by production revision: the original documentation lists RCA, BNC, and Toslink outputs, while a later revision reportedly replaced the RCA output with BNC only and supplied a 75-ohm BNC-to-RCA adapter.