What's the deal with the Machina Dynamica Clock?

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.

Freemand: I have another experiment that you might try.

See if you can correctly tell the difference between the $200 MD Clever Little Clock and the exact same POS alarm clock that you could buy at Walgreens for $7. If you can do this 25 times in a row, you're ready to pay $30 for a MD Duplex Cover that you might have otherwise purchased at Home Depot for $4.

Paul, you won't answer the easy question. You keep dancing around the EASY question.

Question is, why am I able to guess perfectly 25 times by listening to a change in my system whether the clock was in or out of the house?

By the way, I had the clocks for a year in my system before doing that test. They went either out of the house or in the house for the test. I don't know why you'd ask how it sounded different in the kitchen instead of the bathroom. Never said a thing about those places.

PLEASE ANSWER JUST THE QUESTION.