What's the deal with the Machina Dynamica Clock?

Freemand, I simply don't believe you.

And no, I have no intention of coming to your house for a demonstration.

I can go to Las Vegas and see David Copperfield for much less.

Freemand, do you mind expanding - what did your sound sound like when the clock was, lets say, in the bathroom as opposed to your kitchen?

What artifact in the sound that you heard from your audio system made you know the clock was in the kitchen rather than the bathroom - more detail, more dynamics, better soundstage?

thanks
Paul

Actually, considering that Geoff told me that the clock had to be outside the house for it no longer to be effective, I'd be curious to know how the sound would change with the clock in various places in the house. FWIW, I did not hear any effect of the clock, both during our NJSO "scientific" test of its effect a couple of years ago and my experimentation before and after that meeting.

Agreed RC. I appreciate your candidness and I strongly suspect you will never hear the effects of the clock.

But if you read between the lines what Freemand is stating, he seems to be claiming that not only can he recognize from artifacts in his sound system where the clock is, but he was able to do so the very first time the clock was placed in a room! How would that be possible?

As an analogy, it like saying I can identify between Grey Goose, Absolut and Skyy in a blind test without ever having tasted them before. That is simply not plausible. One would need to associate the taste with the brand before one can identify them in a blind test. (And in my analogy, there is an actual difference in taste between the brands.)

Freemand claims to have made an association before he had ever heard it. Clearly Freemand is embellishing, and at that, not doing a particular good job at it.

I find it rather sad that when some folks get taken for a ride like he has been, they feel a need to save face, and then engage in perpetrating the same fraud upon others.

Regards
Paul

I certainly never will hear the effects, as I had gotten it on a lark for our audio society meeting both for the test and for a door prize, which no one took until the next year's holiday meeting. That person, incidentally, a profound skeptic, has not reported any changes in his system from the clock, but he only took it really to use it to tell what time it was.