

But for a modest black box, it does its job incredibly well, and at a price that is unheard of for this level of performance! It has no lights, no frequency display, and none of the usual visual appeal that might be the envy of your friends. It is housed in a rugged 3 “x4” case that provides optimal RF shielding. The Micro Clock MKII is simple and probably even boring looking to most. It is best to do an A/B listening comparison to know if the external clock has a positive effect on the sound or not. Whether an external word clock can improve the sound quality of a receiving device depends entirely on how the receiving device accepts an external word clock signal, and depends on the quality of the receiving device’s internal clock. In the case of the Micro Clock MKII, it outputs a high bandwidth signal rarely found in internal clocks. It’s incredibly rare to find one that can do both at the same time.


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Many PLLs in professional audio are designed to filter out unwanted signals outside the desired bandwidth, although some are configured to filter out unwanted harmonics that are within the frequency band of the signal. The biggest problem with this theory is that we know nothing about the PLL filter in question it is entirely hypothetical. In addition, the simple process of taking the incoming signal and generating a new, in-phase signal adds some jitter. The reason is that the device being externally clocked simply filters the incoming clock signal through its phase-locked loop, eliminating any benefit from the higher-level clock. Some people claim that there is no basis for it, that it is a kind of modern “the emperor’s new clothes”. External clocking is certainly a hot potato. When we launched the Micro Clock MKII, we had no idea how much demand and controversy it would generate.
