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Description

The Apogee Big Ben is the worlds most revolutionary Master Clock, features Apogee's legendary clocking technology and much more into one standalone unit.

Supporting all sample rates and offering clocking technologies, "C777" and "Adaptive Loop Filtering" (ALF), Big Ben is the most stable, low jitter clock available. Big Ben will synchronize all digital equipment in the recording environment bringing clarity, depth and accuracy to recording and mixing that will be heard immediately.
Providing incredible flexibility with available formats of AES, S/PDIF, Optical, six (6) Word Clock outs and an expansion slot of the X-Video option card, Big Ben will synchronize any studio and provide format conversion simultaneously.

An Appoge Big Ben Question from a novice

Okay, I've added the big ben as the master in my clock chain all appears to be good, a/d's are clocking and all sounds fine.
So the question I have is that the blue 'narrow' led flickers periodically and not overly bright when it is stable, is this the default behavior?, I ran the led test and the led appears to be okay, The unit is well ventilated and cool to the touch..

Question on routing of Big Ben, Interface w/ FX Processors

I currently have a Big Ben master clock routing to my RME FF800.

My FX Processors dont have a dedicated WC input, so I assume I need to run my S/PDIF to my soundcard. However, is it critical that the soundcard would be a slave clock (from the Big Ben) or does it have to be a master?