DACs with word clock output??

Meridian made one in their 500 series about 7-8 yrs ago and I dDon't know what sampling rate it handles

I think the isocrone antelope would work for you...this is a proaudio device like the apogee

Thanks for the tips. I'll look into those dacs.

Shadorne, my music is all stored as flac files on a hard drive. It gets distributed via an ethernet network to various systems (great and small) in my home. One system involves the Transporter, and others use the Slim Devices Squeezebox. These gadgets are nice in that one can browse and select anything in the music collection from the listening chair. The system involving the Transporter is superior in that it permits me to put a digital signal into the EMM dac and have it clocked at the EMM dac. Theoretically, the sound should be identical to the sound from the EMM transport. In practice, the theory appears to me to be correct. And there is no noise from the spinning transport when I use the Transporter (the EMM transports I've had do make more noise than many others). Finally, this system will accomodate hi-rez digital downloads, if only I can find a quality dac that accepts the 24 bit word length and puts out a word clock. Hence the query.

Doug

Hmmmm. The Big Ben and the Isocrone appear to be external clock devices, similar to the dcs and Esoteric external clocks. They will do the job, but I'm hoping for a solution that doesn't require an outboard clock. Perhaps one day EMM will begin to use 24 bit dacs.

I'll post my query also on the Slim Devices forum. If a solution arises over there I'll be sure to post it here.

Thanks again.

Well, I'lll be a monkey's uncle. Reading the Esoteric and dcs web sites a bit more carefully tells me that the Esoteric and dcs dacs can be used exactly as I want...word sync out to the transport(er). And the Esoteric models (at least some of them) put out 44.1 and 48 kHz clocks, and multiples thereof, and they accept 24 bit word length. Soooo, well, uh, never mind about my question, I guess. Sorry.