Reference Audio used to distribute replacement wooden knobs for your favorite audiophile components. They were imported from a company in Switzerland, I think called "Silver Rock". One volume control knob was $500. I guess they didn't find enough gullible folks willing to buy one since their no longer being imported or made. I noticed that the same company is making some wooden isoloation feet, which are basically three small turned pieces of hardwood called
woodlens (look under "DIY". They charge 320 CHF for the set of three (about $300) so I guess the price of turned wood has gone down a bit. The $500 knob was hard to beat, even by Geoff Kait's standards. The Teleportation Tweak does take the cake though, I must say. I'm surprised Kait has taken up my suggestion of the Machina Dynamica Magic Brick Tweak: for the price of airfare, room and board + $3900, Kait himself would come to your listening room and cut a brick right there in the middle of the room. The improvements? Well, they make the Teleportation Tweak seem as primitive as a wooden knob! He's probably worried about being sued by VPI for infringement on their own "Magic Brick" tweak. Perhaps he could go with "Magic Cable". Wouldn't you drop a few grand to have some genuine, bonified ex-NASA engineer come and lay some cable in your sound room?
