![]() ![]() It’s housed in a rugged 3” x 4” chassis that provides optimum RF shielding. The Micro Clock MKII is simple and probably even boring looking by most standards. It’s best to do an A/B listening comparison to know whether the external clock is making a positive impact on the sound or not. Whether or not an external word clock can improve the sound quality of a receiving device is completely dependent on how the receiving device accepts an external word clock signal, and is dependant on the quality of the receiving device’s internal clock. In the case of the Micro Clock MKII, it outputs a high bandwidth signal that is rare to find in internal clocks. It’s incredibly rare to find one that does both at the same time. Many PLL’s in pro audio are designed to filter out unwanted signals that are outside of the desired bandwidth, although some are configured to filter out unwanted harmonics that lie within the signal’s frequency band. The biggest problem with this theory is that we know nothing about the PLL filter in question it’s completely hypothetical. In addition, the simple act of accepting the incoming signal and creating a new signal that’s in phase will add some jitter. Some folks maintain that there’s no basis for it that it’s a sort of modern “emperor’s new clothes.” The reasoning behind this is that the device being clocked externally will simply filter the incoming clock signal through its phase locked loop, thereby eliminating any sort of benefit associated with the superior clock. External clocking is certainly a hot button issue. When we introduced the Micro Clock MKII, we didn’t anticipate the amount of demand and controversy that managed to accompany it. ![]()
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