Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

Hmmm...humor's becoming rather 'smelly' of late, maybe that gong was indicative of an expiration date's being passed...

Here's something funnier, Mr. Kait's "definitive explanation" for how the "Intelligent Chip" is supposed to work. After wading through all the pseudo-quantum gobbledygook (not an easy task, since it seems to have been written mainly with confusion and obfuscation in mind), it basically boils down to the assertion -- rather mundane in fact, were the alleged vector of causation not so fantabulous -- that placing the I.C. atop a player spinning a CD for 2 seconds will clarify the optical properties of the disc's polycarbonate layers and thereby "improve" its sound, forever. Naturally, no actual evidence is offered in support of what ought to be an eminently measurable phenomenon -- if it existed -- and so far as I could tell, the argument presented neglects to actually specify, despite its length, exactly how the means described is supposed to alter the polycarbonate for the better (among other logical flaws).

After you've attempted to digest this nonsense, I suggest following one of the links Mr. Kait has conveniently listed at the bottom and read the Wired Magazine article for an interesting and cleansing chaser (coincidentally enough, it contains a metaphor comparing one of the discussed technologies to CDs superceding vinyl records). Now, I'm no quantum physicist (and neither is Mr. Kait, with his claimed undergrad engineering degree), so I'm not going to pretend to qualify his rambling, cobbled-together "theory", but it did occur to me that some of the technical articles referenced contain email addresses, and I could write to some of the scientists whose work is cited and see if they might agree to check out the article and offer their expert opinions on the validity of Mr. Kait's expropriations...

Step Away from the Limburger........

i find the clc clock makes a good timer when using the clc cheddar version while making omlettes, particulaly the bacon cheddar omlette, something about the clocks wave pulses that makes the bacon crisp better and the fat drip off...

when i take the clock out of the kitchen, my eggs seem to run and my bacon is limp?!?

Wow, what a tremendous paper that was Mr. Kait. It looked to me like a pastiche of legitimate materials from disparate sources, tenuously bound by new age ramblings, intentional obfuscations and ill disguised misdirections, with a touch of abuse of inductive logic for good measure. And to top it all off. . . the introduction of a brand new product. . . the Intelligent BOX. . .Let's go get it folks, this one just got to be even better than the CLC! Or is it Lindberger which I am smelling? Or is it just a pedestrian overgrown rodent?

Laser light leaking out of CD players. . . . . . Billions and billions of photons bouncing off the walls and plunging miraculously into the Intelligent IC where they get [{perhaps sexually} entangled with coherent photons that got emitted by a couple hundred quantum emitting somethings that then shift toward the blue light and so they go back inside the CD player box because now everything affects everything else because particle entanglement says so than like it goes inside the policarbonate of the CD and like it becomes like real transparent like but it is more like an atomic bomb of light because it's really a photon chain reaction but the new Intelligent box is even more better because it is sealed but not quite and it has its own real laser not like that old IC before because that one had a pretend laser only because it had no power but may be only some tiny batteries but we are not quite sure of that but now it does not matter but the Intelligent box is bigger and does not run out of steam and it's real good and. . . it superimposes quantum states like the poor cat in Schrodinger's old box that was not dead nor it was alive but it was kind of something like both {and probably real pissed off because old Schrodinger was just farting around with equations and couldn't give a rat's ass about the feelings of his quantumly entangled felines} . . .

Oh just give me a bleeding break! This is the biggest pile of truly entertaining hogwash I have read in quite a spell!

PS: ramblings in curly braces {} are purely my own and are not intended to be paraphrases of concepts or thoughts expressed in Mr. Kait's excellent paper.

I am curious if you, Wellfed, have done the old A-B blind comparison, where someone takes the CLC outside the house and brings it back in without your knowledge. Just to make sure that there's nothing subconsciously going on.