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Doublehelix 25 March 2003

I am looking at a couple of Word Clock generators, namely the Lucid, Drawmer and Apogee offerings. I am looking in the US$1,000 price range.

For the Apogee unit, I see the spec to be +/- 10% at 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96K... That seems high to me. Was this a typo, or is that considered good?

http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/prod_bigben.html

The new Drawmer M-Clock looks pretty sweet for the price...(~US$1,000).

http://www.drawmer.com/m_clock.htm

Then the bargain price-wise is the Lucid Genx6-96 ($600 for the 96K version and $350 for the 44.1/48K version):

http://www.lucidaudio.com/products/product_genx6-96_info.htm

and

http://www.lucidaudio.com/products/product_genx6_info.htm

Of course everyone talks about the Aardsync II, but that is twice the price new, but I have seen them for closer to $1000 on Ebay.

Any opinons on these 3 (or 4) clocks? I am syncing a digital mixer, 2 mic preamps with A/D converters, and a digital i/o card to the computer (RME).

Comments

Opus2000 Wed, 03/26/2003 - 19:38

Well James,
Since I'm an Apogee employee you know my answer..

First of all I will look into this +/- 10% listing you were talking about..
I'll get back to you on that one..

Second, the Big Ben is going to be the most amazing clock box out there....ALF..Adaptive Loop Filtering...amazing stuff I tell you!

Third...virtually Jitter FREE!! This is no joke! This clock will make any system run super tight on the clock side..plus any clock you feed into it will be tightened up even more so than it could ever be!

Two word clock output of the six total can be changed to output any form you so desire!

AES/SPDIF and Optical input and output ports for real time format conversion!!

If you're looking for a killer clock box, look no further! Be patient man...when this thing ships...it's going to be a hot, hot, hot item!

Cheers
Opus :D

Opus2000 Mon, 04/07/2003 - 19:32

ok James

the +/- 10% basically means that the Big Ben can send or receive any sampling rate that is within that deviant.

In other words it is tolerant of loose smapling rate devices and will correct them as need be or follow them as well!

Pretty cool eh?! So if you have a shitty device that drifts a bit...is no problem!!

That help?!

Opus :D

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