It seems it does work Arun, at least if this poster over on the Antipodes forum is to be believed. He claims to have successfully connected his dCS Bartók to the K50 clock output (we’ll have to take his word for it that he configured it correctly and wasn’t in fact using the embedded AES word clock).
However it is quite striking the lengths Antipodes goes to to avoid providing information about their clock output. Their website offers no information at all about the clock output other than that it is an output on BNC, and Mark’s answers on the forum only confirm that it is a Word Clock intended to be used as a Master. The Stereophile review of the Oladra (which also notes the incompatibility with the dCS clock architecture) additionally states that the clock output is 75 Ω and TTL (i.e. square wave). Nowhere have I been able to find details of the actual frequencies it provides.
As happenstance would have it Absolute Sounds (our UK distributor) was running a pair of Olandra in their two demo rooms at Ascot Show - I’ll try to get them to send me down one to take a look at as we did experience some setup “quirks” that I’d like to get to the bottom of if I can…
I had ASSUMED that the wordclock output were the same frequency as the sample rate from what I’d read but I hadn’t dug too deeply so obviously I had assumed wrongly!
It’ll be interesting to hear of what you guys learn.
And that’s the logical assumption.
Strangely, it seems Antipodes sees things differently. It’s unclear who they designed that Word Clock output for exactly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any (AES capable) DAC with Word Clock input able to receive a 512FS TTL signal
