dCS Verona Master (Digital) Clock

This piece is a must if you're trying to assemble a reference quality digital playback system.

Tested and working as it should, and do note this will work with a dCS stack as well as other compatible CD transports/players.

No signs of use of wear visible. $7k MSRP when new  in 2005.

From a Stereophile review written by John Aktinson:

As a limited-production component manufactured in a country with a strong currency, the $6995 Verona is inevitably expensive in the US. Value for money? Fuggedaboudit! The Verona's applicability for use in non–dCS-based systems is almost zero, given that the Verdi is one of only two SACD/CD transports of which I am aware that has a word-clock input (the other is the new Esoteric X-01). But if you have a dCS Verdi-Elgar SACD player—and I know that, at $33,985, that's not going to be too many people—the Verona will take it a small but nonetheless important step forward in sound quality to achieve the best sound quality I have yet heard, not only from SACD but from CD as well.

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Specifications:
Device for distributing a master word-clock signal in a digital production/playback environment

Outputs:
5 word-clock on 75 ohm BNCs and 3 S/PDIF on RCAs, with switch-selectable dither

Input:
External reference clock on BNC, switchable between TTL and bipolar formats, will lock to external TTL clock signals ranging from 32kHz to 96kHz and bipolar 10MHz signals from, for example, a GPS clock.

Word-clock output frequencies:
44.1kHz, 48kHz

Word-clock accuracy/stability:
±1ppm guaranteed after six months

Typical power consumption:
16W

Dimensions:
8.15" (461mm) W x 16.2" (413mm) D x 2.7" (69mm) H

Weight:
18.7 lbs (8.5kg)

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