Well, based on a review from stereophile or stereo times or something like that, a reccomendation from doug oade, and some thoughts ive been tossing around for a few months now, i decided to buy an Apogee Big Ben master word clock. Not for studio use, but for my home system. I think it would vastly improve my system to have a master word clock to sync everything to.
I'll review the difference in a month or so, it should be here next week. This apogee product has never, to my knowledge or the knowledge of anyone else, caught fire.
I figure if I don't like it I can always sell it on gearslutz.