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Mutec
Website:https://mutec-net.com/
Est. year: 1989
Mutec is a Berlin company founded in 1989 by Christian Peters that builds master clocks, audio reclockers, format and sample rate converters, USB interfaces and digital cables. Its equipment works in radio and television facilities, recording and mastering studios, theatres, concert venues and universities, and in a growing number of home systems where the same timing hardware feeds a DAC or streamer.
Range & what it's known for
The MC series forms the core. The MC3+, released in 2013, was the first externally synchronizable model in the series and introduced the company's 1G-Clock technology, aimed at very low jitter. In 2016 the MC3+ USB added a USB input and opened the hi-fi market, and it has become the best-selling product in the catalogue. The REF10 reference master clock followed in 2019 as a 10 MHz generator, and the REF10 SE120 of 2021 pushes phase noise lower still. Smaller models such as the MC1.2+, the MC3.2 HD and the REF10 NANO sit alongside multi-output distributors from the MC2 to the MC8 and the ASTRALIUS.
Who owns it and where it's made
Peters started Mutec while studying precision mechanics and electronic equipment engineering in Berlin, first making memory expansion cards and interfaces for Akai samplers and MPC drum computers. Standalone studio devices for synchronisation and format conversion came next, and clock generators followed after the firm became a limited liability company in 2001. Peters remains managing director, and production stays in Germany with local specialist suppliers.
The lineup in this catalog
Clocks and reclockers for home systems. About USD 1,000 buys the least costly Mutec unit, and the most expensive exceeds USD 5,000.
Who it's for
Mutec makes sense for owners of a digital front end who want a separate timing reference, or a reclocker placed between a computer or streamer and a DAC. The MC3+ USB is the model most buyers start with. A REF10 or REF10 SE120 can later be added as a 10 MHz reference above it, which lets a system grow step by step with hardware from the same maker, built to the same tolerances that broadcast and studio users rely on.
Range & what it's known for
The MC series forms the core. The MC3+, released in 2013, was the first externally synchronizable model in the series and introduced the company's 1G-Clock technology, aimed at very low jitter. In 2016 the MC3+ USB added a USB input and opened the hi-fi market, and it has become the best-selling product in the catalogue. The REF10 reference master clock followed in 2019 as a 10 MHz generator, and the REF10 SE120 of 2021 pushes phase noise lower still. Smaller models such as the MC1.2+, the MC3.2 HD and the REF10 NANO sit alongside multi-output distributors from the MC2 to the MC8 and the ASTRALIUS.
Who owns it and where it's made
Peters started Mutec while studying precision mechanics and electronic equipment engineering in Berlin, first making memory expansion cards and interfaces for Akai samplers and MPC drum computers. Standalone studio devices for synchronisation and format conversion came next, and clock generators followed after the firm became a limited liability company in 2001. Peters remains managing director, and production stays in Germany with local specialist suppliers.
The lineup in this catalog
Clocks and reclockers for home systems. About USD 1,000 buys the least costly Mutec unit, and the most expensive exceeds USD 5,000.
Who it's for
Mutec makes sense for owners of a digital front end who want a separate timing reference, or a reclocker placed between a computer or streamer and a DAC. The MC3+ USB is the model most buyers start with. A REF10 or REF10 SE120 can later be added as a 10 MHz reference above it, which lets a system grow step by step with hardware from the same maker, built to the same tolerances that broadcast and studio users rely on.
