Damn. Now I need an atomic clock for my 'studio'

It's not often that a Harmony Central headline makes me think anything but 'Oh'. Then along comes: "Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device" They go on to say: "At the heart of the Isochrone 10M is the chemical element rubidium, which thanks to the hyperfine structure of rubidium's energy levels produces a clock that is 100,000 times more stable than crystal oscillators." Because, you know, the only thing that's really wrong with my music is that my sample clocking is totally off. Anyway, perhaps this Wharton clock is a bit more what I'm looking for...

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

what? no nixie tubes? meh.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:32 pm

they need to incorporate some nano technology and quantum computer chips into this bitch before i would even think about buying one

# posted by

Awakened Yeti : 5:53 pm

deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-deheeeeeeeeeee dehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-dehrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
deh-deh-dehr-deheeeeeeeeeee dehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(by the way, that's me singing the intro to 'atomic' by blondie...)

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:14 pm

This would be good enough for my timing.

# posted by

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# posted by

Your Home Video :-) : 8:35 pm

Mr J L Smith, that was a highly amusing comment there, son.
cluedos [er... is that the word?].

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:54 pm

i call vaporware,the photo for that press release is the photo for their OSX-V master wordclock.they didnt even take the time to photoshop "10M" over the "OSX-V"LOL!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:22 pm

smith, you made me literally laugh out loud

# posted by

dan s. : 10:36 pm

I know I am ignorant about the elements, but why does the name rubidium remind me of the word RUBE?

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:49 pm

Rubidium crystals are a key component of the subdermal transponders injected into Capt. James T. Kirk and Cmdr. Spock before they beam down to the surface of Ekos in the Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force".

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:45 pm

I thought the candle was the best post until star trek.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:17 am

Music with this device = hit song, wealth, fame

Music without this device = homelessness, despair and bad teeth

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:18 pm

Antelope has a picture of the 10M on their website. As for the vaporware suggestion, NIST unveiled a chip-scale atomic clock that draws <75 mW three years ago; commercialization was (and is) one of the main goals of their program.

# posted by

Biff Whammy (aka ACMEsalesrep) : 6:39 pm

In the future, they'll say that it was the slight inconsistencies in early 20th century sample clocking that gave our digital music its folksy human warmth.

# posted by

Dave : 11:20 am