Apogee Big Ben Master Digital Clock

Apogee Big Ben Master Digital Clock

Apogee Electronics’ Big Ben Master Digital Clock provides a complete clock synchronization solution for the digital production studio. Each feature of Big Ben has been carefully designed to ensure the highest quality, stability and simplicity when synchronizing your studio.

Features :

• At the heart of Big Ben, Apogee’s C777 Clock Technology uses Direct Digital Synthesis to generate ultra-stable clock frequencies whose jitter is virtually un-measurable regardless of the clock source. Big Ben operates at frequencies up to 192 kHz, including common pull up/pull down frequencies and VSO (varispeed) functionality.
• Adaptive Loop Filtering (ALF) optimizes clock performance and attenuates jitter, so that even poor reference clock sources won’t degrade Big Ben’s performance.
• A wide range of input and output connections simplifies studio configuration; included are AES, S/PDIF and Optical I/O, plus 6 Word Clock outputs and 1 Word Clock/Video input. An Option Card slot, for “emerging” digital formats such as FireWire, offers the ability to update Big Ben’s functionality. Format conversion is available between AES, S/PDIF, Optical and Option formats.
• Sure Lock ensures a fail safe lock to external sources, thereby stabilizing the entire clock configuration. Word Clock termination sensing verifies that all Word Clock connections are properly terminated, thus avoiding transmission mis-matches which lead to hard-to-find clocking errors.