Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

Theaudiotweak, I believe you about the wood of the cello having a temporary mechanical memory. Yet I do not believe we need to invoke the 4th dymention and the pangalactic sisterhood of Mother Gaya and all living planets quite yet. The poor cello is subjected to considerable mechanical stresses when played, prodded, protected, subjected to pressure, balanced over a nasty end-pin, compressed longitudinally from pegs to tailpiece. . . auch that nasty Yargar C string Forte, all connected to the latest ultra-dense Granadilla tail-piece. Oh but wait, while its toes are being pushed into its nose, that cruel soundpost is trying to burst its belly, simultaneously fighting with the bridge that is trying to bash the very same belly in. And the littlest change in stresses is going to modify the cello's balance of internal tensions. . . quite a feat it can survive being played at all! But the cello is not a 'perfectly elastic' object, being made from wood, a little metal and just a bit of boiled cow bones. . . so the poor thing does remember for a few minutes each time it is brutalized. Can you blame it? Would you behave differently if it were yourself being balanced on a razor-sharp Titanium end-pin, while all trussed up in an unnatural and unspeakable fashion? I would scream for unionization! A little mechanical memory is the least we can expect from the old tramp!

Guidocorona the sound of Titanium and carbon fiber end pins are detrimental to the transmission of vibrational energy..Really all of this comes down to having an open mind to ideas that maybe on the fringe...I am not saying I believe or understand that the clock works. A lot of people think that Jack Bybee's filters work..I don't know because I never tried one or many. I haven't tried the clock either and I never got to speak with Tesla though I wish I was around back then to do so.Tom

Nice ending to our thread over here re: the Clever Little Clock: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1132806939&read&3&4&5

Enjoy!

Theaudiotweak
, the beauty of endpins--Titanium Carbon Fiber, steel, metal ceramics, cardboard, or prestressed anchovies--is that their effect is largely measurable. One may like the effect they have on the sound of an instrument, one may not. Their behavior can be modelled, or at least approximated, through some complex function derived from acoustic and mechanics. Not so the CLC, or my WMC, which to be explained and appreciated--require a substantial suspension of disbelief. Yet, as I am a reasonable man, I do invite Mr. Kait to supply me an evaluation unit of his marvellous CLC for me to test for 45 days--of course at no charge. I would post all my findings here--positive, negative, or inconclusive--as they may be. At the end of the test period I will purchase the unit if I deem its sonic effect to warrant its price, and would otherwise return it to Mr. Kait.