Old Vivaldi clock review

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

When you read the price in 2013 !!! And when you think it is exactly the same specification today…It is 2013, not 1913…But if it sells well, it is business management…

Hi @keiserrg

You are correct - it isn’t “orders of magnitude better” but the way that it is implemented in the Vivaldi Clock then it is “better” … I’m not sure that there is much we can do now on such an old review though.

Phil

Understood Phil and thank you. I’m not interested in correcting the article, just making sure my understanding is correct.

Same crystals in all three units, correct?

Same crystals, yes. The Vivaldi and Rossini Clocks are calibrated in the environmental chamber so have more accurate temperature compensation for the crystals. Physically the same VCXOs though.

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Thank you James.