Just doing some more reading about the Vivaldi clock and came across this old review (below).
In it, it contains this paragraph:
“The Master Clock is a far more precise way of synchronizing the musical flow through the Vivaldi components. It sits outside the signal path regulating the beating heart of the system by performing all the clocking in one place (when just the transport and DAC are in use the former is slaved to the clock in the DAC). This locks all the digital operations within the three other boxes to the single, highly accurate master clock that is orders of magnitude more precise than those built into each component.”
@Phil : This last clause is incorrect, isn’t it? Aren’t the clock units identical in the Vivaldi DAC, the Rossini, and the Vivaldi Master clock, but it is the further isolation of the clock outside of the same box as the DAC, and other factors, that contribute to the higher resolution?
In any event, an “order of magnitude” means a difference, for example, between 1 error per million accuracy, and 1 error per ten million, which I know not to be the case from the spec sheet.
Thank you!
Richard