'Stock' clocks in some digital devices could be jittery enough to degrade fidelity. The introduction of that at the time newer clock technology was a big deal back then.

Sorry I cannot be more specific and I hope this helps in some way. With all that said I use Big Ben daily and I love it and my clocking needs are more than efficient. I believe when Big Ben was released it did everything you would want it to do as far as clocks are concerned and much hasn't changed since. Other clocks just place the jitter randomly with no attention to sound enhancement. Personally I don't think the Apogee Big Ben is going to be the holy grail of conversion improvement.ДЄpogee and depending on who you talk to there will say something along the lines that our clock (Big Ben) places the jitter in the sound spectrum where it's most pleasing to the ear than other clocks. I hear they make your converters run more efficiently thus making your rig sound better (more headroom, better highs and lows etc etc) My question is, with the gear I have do you guys think it would be worth it to clock off the Apogee? I know they are a good clock because I see them in a lot of commercial studios. Of course Im always looking into stuff to make my rig sound better and there are a TON of Apogee big bens going for $400-500 used online. Im using the Ferrofish as my main clock (slaving the motu off that). Im also using a Ferrofish pulse 16 for my analog hardware I/O conversion.

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