Am I missing something?

I agree with Nsgarch.

I don't believe that battery powered clock could provide any improvement in an audio system other than letting you know how long you've been listening.

There was a "plug in" clock sold by Tice some years ago. Tice also built power conditioning products, the most famous were the Power Block and Titan.

After all the overblown claims for the Tice clock, an engineer friend of mine took one apart and discovered it had a similar (but lesser) effect than Quiet Lines. Basically it was a clock with a cap and resistor that loaded the AC line, providing a small amount of noise reduction.

I find the Quiet Line filters to be more effective, especially if you use enough of them.

Tice Clock owners are all going to say, "Told ya!!!!"

Not really.

I actually have a bag of lizard bones I hang over my preamp , a Walrus uterus that I place in the corners of my listening room to draw unwanted energy from the sweetspot and I had corpse hair cross stitched into the lining of my subs for damping effects . Sadly , none of these Voodoo tweaks made any real improvements. The " clocks " however have made a startling change that even the jaded would at least ... have to admit makes a difference . This isnt the moment to digress on this accessory suffice to say I am for one , engaged with its effects at present. Maybe one should try a thing before dismissing a thing.

The real issue is does it work? How it works, if it does, could be scientific (physical) or psychological (metaphysics.) Science-based devices work better for me, because I can relate to that kind of "how." But I'm perfectly willing to accept that some folks operate on a different "plane" than I do, and to recognize that suggestion can be a very powerful thing indeed.

Before each listening session a 98 year old Japanese woman peforms Reiki therapy on my speakers, not to mention that my record brush is made from the hair of a 16th century Castrato. So I guess a clock doesn't seem _that_ insane.