Apogee Big Ben C777 (year unknown)
Surviving information on the Apogee Big Ben C777 is thin. The name is part of the problem, but the record consistently identifies it as the Apogee Big Ben C777, a master clock. Apogee's own launch advertising in Mix (2003, p.29) called the C777 an all-new standalone digital clock - so advanced, so essential that Apogee put it in its own box. The company also claimed it was "the most revolutionary master clock in the world" and that "like music and life, good digital audio depends on time." Those are marketing claims. No substantial independent review commentary survives in the archive's sources.
A later Mix technical article (June 2014, p.43) is more useful. It described the C777 as using direct digital synthesis for clock generation, which Apogee said avoided analog overshoot/undershoot, settling time, component aging, and temperature drift. The C777 also used Apogee's ASP-based Adaptive Loop Filter, which handled incoming external clock in the digital domain. EQ (October 2003, p.82) listed the Big Ben as a master digital clock - a 132 kHz master word clock source/distribution system - priced at $1,495. One collector-market trace turned up: an undated classified listing from Kyiv, asking 1,000 with the currency unspecified.
Beyond that, the record goes quiet. No full spec sheet, no manual, and no confirmed production years have surfaced.
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