Bogus Tweaks

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:50 am

I know there was a topic relating to this in the past, but I just happened across a few more which I thought noteworthy.

Here's a clock which, though does not hook into any electronics within the room it's housed in, it supposedly sweetens the audio in the room....(but DON'T change the bateries.)

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Then, of course, there's the stones (err, pebbles) which you place throughout the room to magically (using the crystaline pattern of the rocks) makes the modes in your room disappear. I though if the rocks were bolders...then perhaps, but these are an inch or less.

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

Oh...and then don't forget the proximity chip, which, when you place any CD near it, it automatically optimizes your entire listening system. Confused

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina27.htm

This site is chock-full-of sh*t like this....I can't believe people actually pay for this!

Enjoy!
J

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:34 pm

If only I were enough of a prick to think up crap like that . Confused

Good lord!

I like the customer comment about the "non-magnetic" outlet covers clearing up their video, as well as improving audio in the room. I have a feeling the wife went through the TV room with a bottle of Windex the same day the bozo installed his $30 outlet cover.

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:12 pm

Cucco,
there is one way to look at the stuff that makes it really funny. Not sure this is the intended way, but I tend to smile at it. Assume this guy is a "performance artist" trying to see just where the limit is where the audiophile people will discover him. Looks like he has not reached that point yet. Shows that people love to be scammed.

Gunnar

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:34 pm

Yeah, I s'pose it does bear a certain resemblance to a circus side show.

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 5:32 pm

Probably just because people expect to hear and see better quality that they actually think they see and hear it. If you try it out as a skeptic (who probably wouldn't be dumb enough to actually buy it and try it) then you probably won't notice anything different. Someone should try this with something. Take a gullible friend/relative and tell them if they stick (whatever you choose) in the same room as their stereo, the music will sound better.

Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:04 pm

Sad to say but I've seen people take this stuff literally. One guy who suggested this special permanent ink marker could improve cd sound when used on the edge of the label side of the cd. The same guy who gave schematics for what essentially was an extremely expensive attenuator. Calling it a preamp and suggesting that it was "the best preamp you will ever hear". Now, this guy was not a total idiot. In fact he composed orchestral music that was quite stunning but where he got this "info" from, I'm not sure.

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:26 am

Well, the guy is a UVa AOE grad, so that explains a lot of things.

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:08 am

LOL! That's a funny site!

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:18 am

Magic Knobs

Mpingo Magic

Rainbow Foil

The ultra clarifier

Tube emulator lacquer

soundfield optimizer

cable cooker

Shakti Stones

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:17 pm

You guys laugh, but I bought a pair of The Clever Little Crock, and I was floored by the immediate increase in low frequency power. I mean, even as the UPS truck approached my place to deliver them, I could feel the bass shaking the room!
I set up each of the Clever Little Crocks next to my twin McIntosh 2105 power amps. These amps were made in the '70s, and are classics. They drive a pair of JBL 4310 monitors from that era, with all of their limitations. All of a sudden, the JBLs just opened up like never before. I could clearly hear Sting's breath whistling through his nose; the spit from Wynton Marsalis' trumpet smacking the mic's windscreen; and Barry Manilow's background singer's foot thumping a mic stand. And when I was watching the Beyonce Live In London DVD late one night (very late!), I could clearly hear one of the dancers breaking wind when she did a high kick! Awesome reality sound the way it should be. I think that it's money well spent! I can't wait for their companion product, The Z4 Oscillator to be released...it has just 1 big knob you turn to tune the sound system to the room...ANY room! I'll never have to use my ears again!

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:32 am

Brilliant. But it reminds me of the folks who lust after the limitations of old technology; that old skool analogue sound ("feel what I'm sayin'?") . Or the signature sound of a particular EQ or compressor which had artifacts then, but has warmth and colour now. They are even programming in the distortion these days. Patented ways to mangle a pristine signal path.

Hee-hee.

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:59 am

And one must not forget to take a green magic marker and cover the bottom of all of your CDs with it. It will make them sound so much better!

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Ms. Remy Ann David

And if you believe that one would you believe that we needed to go to war with Iraq??

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:50 am

RemyRAD wrote:

And if you believe that one would you believe that we needed to go to war with Iraq??

Ha...don't you know, they're the ones that blewed us up 5 years ago....they're a nation of "bad-men" and "evil-doers."

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:19 pm

a personal fav.... while managing an audiophool store... this guy assured me his mcintoshes sounded so much better now that he had moved and was no longer on atomic power (he was on a different grid)...

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:38 pm

RemyRAD wrote:

And if you believe that one would you believe that we needed to go to war with Iraq??

Absolutely. Id go again in a heartbeat. full speed ahead.

the audiophile stuff, however..... Rolling Eyes

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