[time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
Golleee. http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Antelope-Audio-Isochrone-10M.html I'm trying to decide if there's even the slightest chance that this actually has any justification, or if it's just the latest successor to the $500 wooden knobs and Tube-o-lator chip lacquer. ... http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4309/P20/ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/altmann_tube_o_lator_lacquer -- Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP, SCWCD http://voicenet.com/~maggie AOPA 925383 - Amateur Radio Station K3XS - ARRL 39280 - AMSAT 32844 The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.-A.N.Whitehead ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magg ie Leber writes: http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Antelope-Audio-Isochrone-10M.html Somebody will buy it, you can sell anything to hifi-nuts. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
Thanks for making my day, Maggie! While there's some value, I guess, in an accurate, stable, and low jitter clock source for audio work, I suspect the fancy panel and pretentious title add a nice multiplier to the price of a low-end Rb! By the way -- the $500 knob is one of my favorites. If you ever are bored, google for audiophile and you'll soon find yourself in a world of the most amazing hogwash -- multi-kilobuck power cables, and $30K speaker cables! I sometimes worry about our obsession, but at least what we do can actually be measured. :-) 73, John Maggie Leber said the following on 04/19/2007 09:35 AM: Golleee. http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Antelope-Audio-Isochrone-10M.html I'm trying to decide if there's even the slightest chance that this actually has any justification, or if it's just the latest successor to the $500 wooden knobs and Tube-o-lator chip lacquer. ... http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4309/P20/ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/altmann_tube_o_lator_lacquer -- Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP, SCWCD http://voicenet.com/~maggie AOPA 925383 - Amateur Radio Station K3XS - ARRL 39280 - AMSAT 32844 The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.-A.N.Whitehead ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Ackermann N8UR writes: and $30K speaker cables! The most amazing thing about this, is that the magnetic field in a coil is proportional to the current through it, not the voltage across it, yet all loudspeakers and amplifiers are designed to control the voltage and not the current. Once you fix that (and it's pretty trivial on any amplifier with a feedback loop) the cables suddenly doesn't matter and you get _much_ better definition in the reproduction. I dit that to my set 20 years ago, and hasn't bothered since :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:24 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Ackermann N8UR writes: and $30K speaker cables! The most amazing thing about this, is that the magnetic field in a coil is proportional to the current through it, not the voltage across it, yet all loudspeakers and amplifiers are designed to control the voltage and not the current. Once you fix that (and it's pretty trivial on any amplifier with a feedback loop) the cables suddenly doesn't matter and you get _much_ better definition in the reproduction. Certainly. This is so true. You need to consider one thing thought, you want an over voltage/current protection to nicely handle unplugging of connectors etc. I dit that to my set 20 years ago, and hasn't bothered since :-) It is *still* too new methology, even if it has been known for ages. Conservative fools. Cheers, Magnus - who used to work with PAs. ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
Re: [time-nuts] Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device
At 9:35 AM -0400 4/19/07, Maggie Leber wrote: Golleee. http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Antelope-Audio-Isochrone-10M.html I'm trying to decide if there's even the slightest chance that this actually has any justification, or if it's just the latest successor to the $500 wooden knobs and Tube-o-lator chip lacquer. ... Maggie, The only thing missing from that expensive box is a 12 digit frequency display to show all the zeroes that the customer just paid so much money for. An accurate clock is somewhat useful, but the audiophile way is to spend a lot of money to optimize some unimportant parameter way too far while ignoring the basic things. Considering that only rarely is a recording more than an hour long, having sample timing accuracy for an eight-day-long recording is overkill. Also, it's hard to find a person capable of detecting the pitch error caused by any crystal oscillator being out of whack by the typical .01% of a cheap microprocessor crystal. That's less than a tenth of a Hertz at middle A! However, if you want the best for your mastering studio, a $100 ebay surplus ovenized crystal will get you to .1% accuracy easily, with lower jitter than a phase-locked rubidium oscillator. -- --David Forbes, Tucson, AZ http://www.cathodecorner.com/ ___ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
