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Grimm
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AUDIO
Studio engineered to the most exacting standards
CC1 Master Clock
We all know that you can simply put a low cost crystal clock
into a budget CD player and make it better. But how do you
improve on a £5K to £20K CD player? In Japan there are
external clocks, not just clocks, but low phase noise clocks,
they are £8,000 each! Bizarrely it was in Japan that we
discovered this £2K clock that is made in Europe! Although
originally designed for mastering studios, it performs equally
well in your own home. Simply plug into the back of any
compatible CD player and switch it on.
So what do you get?
The four points below are the main attributes, but you will hear
more, much more!
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Serenity.
With low jitter playback you can forget you are listening to a
box of electronics. It really makes the difference between
a pleasant sound and something so captivating you really
don't want to turn off before the music ends.
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Believable
rendering of the recording acoustics. From a psychoacoustic
point of view it is the most obvious improvement to expect.
Jitter in a record/replay chain equates to modulating the delay
between direct sound, first reflections and reverberant sound.
In a normal listening room the presence of wall and floor
reflections act as a "time reference" and it doesn't take a lot
of jitter to alert the ear to the fact that the various
reflections (reproduced and room-bound) do not make a consistent
picture. Effectively jitter gives the impression the size of the
recording venue is modulated (by the jitter). Since the real
listening room isn't, this is enough information for the ear to
tell the two apart. Low jitter makes the difference between
"listening to a recorded room in a real room" and a coherent
listening experience. Tests with anechoic recordings replayed in
live rooms and live recordings in anechoic rooms bear this out.
Either way jitter is less audible than in the normal situation
where both the recording venue and the listening room are live.
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Stunning
dynamics. Many people auditioning a CC1 respond immediately
to the strong impact of drum hits and the solid power in the
bass region. Sound engineers tell us they long to get back to
the mixing desk and rework their mixes to make better use of
this regained quality.
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Swing. When
using a rock solid clock, the 'pace & rhythm' properties of the
system seem to gain substantially. From unconscious foot tapping
to an irresistible desire for dancing, the music will act on you
better when its timing is authentic.
You can use the Grimm Low Phase Noise Clock on these and many
more high end CD players: Marantz SA-7S1, Esoteric
X-03SE, Esoteric X-05, Esoteric SA-10, Esoteric ES-60, Esoteric
X-01D2, dCS Puccini, dCS Paganini, dCS Scarlatti
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construction: steel and wood
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size: 434 x 220 x 55 mm
• weight: 3.2 kg
• packing list: CC1, white paper, manual, IEC mains lead,
75ohm BNC cable
Retail price £2,250.00 including UK VAT
Read the Hi Fi world review by
clicking here
Read the manual by
clicking here
Read the Grimm White Paper by
clicking here
Available output
clock frequencies
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44.1 |
48.00 |
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88.2 |
96.00 |
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176.40
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192.00
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