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From: pixar!flip@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Flip Phillips)
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Subject: Re: Magic Clocks
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Date: 18 Mar 91 13:47:16 GMT
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In article <9943@uwm.edu> wmartin@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Will Martin) writes:

   Well, does anyone out there have anything to say about this business of
   digital clocks affecting the sound of a high-end system? In case this
   elicits the same "huh?" response I gave when I began reading the March '91
   Stereophile, let me elaborate. As I understand it, somebody began
[...]

A friend of mine owns a HiFi (serious hifi...) dealership and he got
one to try. I went over to his place and we hooked it into his system:
ProAc spkrs, Rodger Mojeski power amp, CAT preamp, SME TNT ttbl, SME
arm, Urushi cart. not a trivial system.

We played various source material (all from the TNT) and the clock was
in or out at various times in the listening. I was able to detect a
'change' exactly 50% of the time, and the 'change' for the better
correlated with the clock being in exactly 50% of the time, basically,
you could flip a coin and do as well as I did.

Now this may reflect 'poorly' on my less than golden ears, but,
believe me, I have heard more demonstratable differences with
interconnects speaker cables .

But hey, if you -think- it sounds better....


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