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In Reply to: RE: ...why would McGill U., known for medical controlled blind tests, agree to do one for some audio thing? posted by Doug Schneider on June 14, 2022 at 11:47:54
clearly you believe in science. Geoff sells snake oil audio tweeks. Some of the most absurd kinds which is saying a lot.
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Hi,
I don't know who Geoff actually is - but thanks for pointing that out.
Doug Schneider
So I feel a little foolish for actually taking part in a discussion with someone like that. To think, there are people who make products that actually work - and there are people who make products intended to take people's money and provide nothing else. It all makes sense.
At the end of the day, however, I feel sorry for people who make products that simply do nothing - because that's how their careers and businesses are remembered.
Doug Schneider
SoundStage!
The review is listed in the "Reviews and Awards" page of the Machina Dynamica web site,machinadynamica.com/machina7.htm
While the link is a dead link, I found this quote from the article online:
"After unwrapping the nondescript plastic timepiece and placing it on a side table, I noticed that the system's midrange performance had become more emphatic. It was as if the Cyber-800 had sprouted a brace of 845 triode tubes in place of its little 6CA7 power tubes. I was so impressed with the Clever Little Clock (CLC) that I ordered another one, which yielded additional midrange power and realism. (Recent photos of my room reveal a third clock, but it's there for overkill purposes only.)" "A Tweak Too Far" by James Saxon - Soundstage A/V
soundstage has another review that is less positive,
https://www.ultraaudio.com/equipment/machina_dynamica_clock_signature.htm
This one concludes:
"I was disappointed that the Signature Version of the Clever Little Clock didn't work for Jeff and me. But why didn't it work? We discussed this at length, and came up with the following. First, from a reasonable thinker's standpoint, is the question most readers of this review will ask themselves: Why would stickers on a pair of batteries, a preset Future Time, and a couple of rare-earth magnets on a $20 digital clock, make your audio system sound better?"
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Hi,
I don't know where that James Saxon quote came from, but he was never a "reviewer" for us. James wrote a column that often involved shows and other things, so maybe somewhere in there.
The review linked is a review and it says pretty clearly that the thing didn't do anything.
Doug Schneider
SoundStage!
I was set up by the two nitwits from Soundstage, two giggling teenage girls. Of many hundreds sold that was the only case where the clock didn't work. Draw your own conclusions. Soundstage is as far as I can tell very mediocre and it looks like you deserve each other. You don't know anything about me or the clock and yet you don't mind spreading this gossip, like little old ladies. You better read the headline of the OP again and take it to heart, dude.
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Hi,
You're a real "keyboard warrior," aren't you?
Well, it's OK that you think about us like that. Admittedly, with many magazines it's quite easy to get a great or "rave" review. Too easy. We just tell our writers to tell the truth.
Thanks,
Doug
You and your stumblebum magazine wouldn't know the truth if it walked up and peed on your legs. Re-read the title of this thread, "professional audio journalism is an oxymoron." Thanks for helping prove Scott's point.
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Exceptionally keen thinking on the Soundstage reviewers' parts.
"But why didn't it work? We discussed this at length, and came up with the following. First, from a reasonable thinker's standpoint, is the question most readers of this review will ask themselves: Why would stickers on a pair of batteries, a preset Future Time, and a couple of rare-earth magnets on a $20 digital clock, make your audio system sound better?"
You've obviously been at Soundstage too long. Talk about a bogus operation. This is what happens when you listen to Scott, our resident audiophile hater and conspiracy theorist.
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Thanks. I've been there too long, I guess, because I founded it.
And we do things like measurements on top of our listening, which I suspect is bogus to you too.
Let's agree to part ways.
Doug Schneider
Keep swinging, eventually you'll hit something.
Part ways? Not now that you are on his radar as a threat to his scams. Sorry about that. He will slander you, troll you and stalk you on Audio Asylum. It sucks that the forum moderators allow it. I suspect he donates money to the forum and they don't want to lose that.
Although even as a scammer he is second rate. His business looks like a back yard/garage operation. Not in the same league as Ted and Synergistic "research." Have to use quotes on the research part. No way they reseach anything other than marketing strategies and eye appeal design for his snake oil.
But anyway....
Cleanup on aisle 3.
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