Thank you. I forgot to ask about the WC, but I guess it is similar to MADI, right?

Best,
Thomas

I thought the WC BNC was transformer isolated on RME products?

Ah - That likely explains an odd BNC grounding/clocking issue I was having a while back :-)  And by "Socket" - I assume you mean the threaded portion of the BNC receptacle?

Thanks for the clarification, MC.

Additional Q:  I'm not in front of my MADI cards at the moment, so I'm not 100% sure of their BNC configuration.  If one of my older PCI MADI cards (a spare) has the transformer on the Wordclock board, and my newer primary PCIe MADI card doesn't have a transformer, can I simply swap the WordClock boards between them and get the BNC isolation on the PCIe MADI card?

Thanks!
Randy V.

Why was this change made? I have been having issues with using an Apogee Word Clock to pass the M-32DAs clock to another audio device. Simply  connecting the WC cable from the Apogee to the M-32DA creates a change to the M-32DA outcomes. After reading this, it seems that I need to completely revise my rack grounding.

Cheers,

Ian

Bump - My suspicions were confirmed.  My PCIe HDSPe MADI Card has the Wordclock transformer yet has metal BNC Jacks (right), where my older PCI HDSP MADI Card has the Wordclock Transformer and Plastic BNC Jacks (left).  Both are labeled as "rev 1.1.2".

What is the rationale for this other than RME might have run out of plastic BNC Jacks before they ran out of Transformers (before doing away with the transformer isolated wordclock circuit altogether)?

In the meanwhile, my old PCI card is in a spare backup DAW, so I swapped the wordclock cards to give my main DAW the galvanic isolation I need.  The metal jacks and lack of galvanic isolation of my original wordclock card seem to be the reason I was having odd sync issues with one of my my slave DAW's over BNC - the slave DAW sync's fine over ADAT.  I recall the old PCI HDSP equipped DAW not having this same issue (swapped primary DAW's including the metal BNC card, but was using the same slaves).  I'll try this again with the cards swapped and see what happens later this week...

Ok. Since transformers no longer exist on WordClock-Ins:

Whats the manufacturer / part-no. of the previously built-in pieces?

Then I could built my own galvanic isolation direct into the WC-cable if necessary!

Thanks and Regards,
Daniel

Understood.  Just thought there might be some other rationale for this odd conundrum.

One more clarification: Seeing just the 1 transformer, does this isolate the BNC Wordclock input or output?  (I assume the input since its closest to it).  And then: is it is assumed any devices connected to the WC Out would deal with galvanic isolation on their respective inputs?

Finally, does/will the MADIface-XT have transformer isolated wordclock connections (Input or Output or both)?

Thanks