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Post by jdc on May 27, 2015 13:08:35 GMT -6
6 BNC
1 optical
1 S/PDIF
1 AES
Digital display on the front for selecting the frequency.
is $999 too steep?
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Post by dandeurloo on May 27, 2015 15:34:51 GMT -6
I want to try one for sure.
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Post by kcatthedog on May 27, 2015 15:41:32 GMT -6
I'd say yes too expensive. With X change rate I doubt they'll sell many in cdn at over $1300 cdn ?
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Post by tonycamphd on May 27, 2015 16:02:53 GMT -6
yeah, i'm a total fan of BLA stuff, it always sounds great, but this is way overpriced, they aren't going to move any units at that number, i could care less what's in it.
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Post by dandeurloo on May 27, 2015 18:38:03 GMT -6
Someone should send me a Micro Clock II or the new III so I can test it! Just a thought.
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Post by svart on May 27, 2015 22:28:52 GMT -6
Hmm. The AES and SPDIF coax/optical are all coming from the same driver chip I'm guessing. The clock source is likely just a high frequency oscillator with programmable prescalers for division down to usable frequencies. Dividing down like this has the effect of reducing deterministic jitter.
Honestly the easiest way would be using a cheap A/D chip as a dummy clock source driving a digital output driver IC. A lot of A/D chips accept an external clock of much higher frequency, and output your wordclock and such for you. You can use a signal transformer to split AES and SPDIF coax, and then an optical transmitter from the coax feed. The word clock is supplied by the A/D chip to the driver IC so you could simply buffer that out to BNC connectors..
You get all that above up to 192K for about 200$ including the chassis.
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Post by Johnkenn on May 27, 2015 22:33:02 GMT -6
Um...yeah...exactly what I was gonna say...
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Post by drbill on May 27, 2015 22:37:47 GMT -6
For a grand, they at least should have given it a full rack chassis, and maybe no cheesy wall wart......
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Post by terryrocks on May 27, 2015 23:28:51 GMT -6
What's funny is that they made their name by being the cheaper solution to hifi.
Now, they are just another one of the boys.
Not so special anymore.
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Post by WKG on May 28, 2015 9:18:43 GMT -6
I'd be interested to hear it. I had a microclock II for awhile and I could pick it in a blind test. $999 seems a bit steep though.
I had a chance to speak with the founder Matt at their old location some years back and he lost me in about 2 minutes. Nice guy and he was certainly not afraid to think/venture outside the box. I heard he has since sold the company but many of the same guys still work there.
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Post by tonycamphd on May 28, 2015 10:21:48 GMT -6
I'd be interested to hear it. I had a microclock II for awhile and I could pick it in a blind test. $999 seems a bit steep though. I had a chance to speak with the founder Matt at their old location some years back and he lost me in about 2 minutes. Nice guy and he was certainly not afraid to think/venture outside the box. I heard he has since sold the company but many of the same guys still work there. Matt is now Dizengoff audio |
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Post by kcatthedog on May 28, 2015 10:29:17 GMT -6
and still a nice guy, who could lose some of us (me) in a minute but doesn't:) does anyone know the original material in the pultec inductor ?  |
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Post by WKG on May 28, 2015 11:30:26 GMT -6
To be honest it may have been well less than two minutes...
Good to know he's still in business, I didn't know he was Dizengoff now.
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