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Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

Guys, seriously, can someone please explain to me how the Clever Little Clock (http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm) actually imporves the sound inside the litening room?
audioari1
lrsky
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Oy??? Help me out here, I just learned the other day that YMMV means "Your mileage may vary."

Larry
aggielaw
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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!
guidocorona
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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.
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geoffkait
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Guidocorona - while I am pleased you're considering evaluating the CLC, I respectfully decline your terms on the principle that it would be unfair to my customers who did agree to my terms, which are quite reasonable as they stand. We also do not wish to get into the habit of loaning out the CLC or any other of our other products. Hope you understand and that you will agree to the following:

I am perfectly willing to provide one clock - or two clocks - for the usual 30-day period, with the proviso that payment be made up front as per usual.

We have found that, in reality, the 30-day evaluation period is quite unnecessary, and a bit ridiculous, as the effects of placing the clock in the room are quite audible within 5 seconds, in almost all cases.

What have you got to lose (except your mind)? ha ha ha ha

Geoff Kait, Machina Dynamica
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
Entirely your choice Geoffkait, I have no problem putting out good money for reasonably priced products based on mainstream science and technology, and whose principles of operation conform to it. I am even willing to stretch my credulity a little where pragmatic implementation seems to be preceeding sound theoretical frameworks, such as in many PCs, ICs and the like. Unfortunately, the CLC and various other related devices are stretching my admittedly secular humanistic mental strictures far beyond the bursting point. They claim to operate under principles that--while utilizing some of the raw words of science--bind these freely out of context in clauses, sentences, paragraphs and rambling explanations which have all the obscure semantic trappings of the magic of old, and defy commonly accepted norms of inductive and deductive logic. Not denying the effects of CLC on its proponents and fans, I strongly suggest such undeniable effect has merely psychological causes. . . illusion, self delusion and mass hysteria on which the tenuous world of the miraculous is based.
If you wished to prove me wrong. . . you know what to do.
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