Machina Dynamica

You can buy a clock for $200 for super dooper fidelity. No, not a word clock,
an actual clock:
If this looks like a $10 Timex clock with a red sticker on it, that’s because it
is. Oh all right then, it’s not, it’s Machina Dynamica’s Clever Little Clock. How
clever? Clever enough to sell for $199 a piece. How can they justify this
2000% price increase? Why, because it’s been “extensively modified”, of
course. According to his website, Geoff Kait is able to do this using “concepts
and techniques originally developed by PWB Electronics“. Most likely, this
means the technique of buying something that costs very little money (e.g. a
crocodile clip) and selling it for very much money (e.g. £500).

But what does it do? Everything!
Remove the Clock from its clear bubble pack and place it anywhere in the
listening room. The sound will be considerably more musical and live
sounding. There will be less distortion, more information and a deep,
coherent soundstage. Low frequencies will be articulate, extended and
dynamic, high frequencies exceptionally smooth with phenomenal inner
detail. In other words, More of Everything!! Found this online

More stuff onlineJust incase you dont know the word an Audiophile is someone that obsesses over the sound quality of their stereo system, usually starting off by improving the large components like amplifiers and speakers and then eventually becoming so obsessive that they will spend ridiculous amounts of money on things that make very little or absolutly no difference at all to sound quality.

The companies that sell the usually back up their products with ridiculously convoluted semi scientific explanations of how they work and how effective they are.

Here are a few of my favourites I wanted to share with you, All from the same company www.machinadynamica.com...

Blue Meanies
Machina Dynamica's latest product, Codename Blue Meanies, is a set of 4 adhesive-backed 3/4" blue dots that are attached to the walls of the listening room, one dot per wall. If there are only three walls in the room, two blue dots should be placed on one of the walls. Codename Green Meanies are now available for the ceiling of the listening room, one or more per ceiling

Yours for the very reasonable price of $99 and if sticking 4 blue dots to your wall doesnt quite make your stereo sound good enough then they also do Green ones for $100

Top Banana

It might look like some yellow paper that you stick to the inside of your dvd tray, but it isn't that simple. Actually its a $64 bit of yellow paper you stick to the inside of your dvd tray

Brilliant Pebbles
A truly marvellous bit of nonsense described as follows
Brilliant Pebbles addresses specific resonance control and RFI/EMI absorption problems associated with audio electronics, speakers and cables, as well as acoustic wave problems associated with the listening room boundaries and the 3-dimensional space within the boundaries. Brilliant Pebbles comprises a number of precious and semi-precious stones (crystals) selected for their effectiveness. The original glass bottles for Brilliant Pebbles have been replaced by clear zip lock bags, which have a more linear response than glass.


The price? $39-$160
Im speechless

Found online always got a huge kick out of his gear.

The "clever little clock" is hilarious. It's a normal little battery powered digital clock with a...dolls eye or something similar on it.

There is also this "phone hack" he sells. You give him his number and he calls you, you pick up your phone and he does something on his end to improve the sound of your system.

At least, that's what I recall. I'll have to check the link again. It's been a while...

Brand New Product!! - CD Re-Animator

Machina Dynamica's CD Re-Animator Multicolor Stroboscopic Light Gun

Machina Dynamica's amazing new product - the CD Re-Animator - a palm size Multicolor, Multibeam stroboscopic Light Gun. The CD Re-Animator is a highly modified, battery-powered 12 LED light gun that permanently upgrades CDs, DVDs, SACDs or Blu Ray discs. The CD is upgraded by selecting MODE 1 of the CD Re-Animator and placing it directly over the data side of the CD for 3 minutes. MODE 1 sequentially fires Red, Green and Blue LEDs. Batteries included. Price $179

Geoff made it in ,Ripoff Report,The following is from James Randi's website (http://www.randi.org/joom/content/view/127/1/). Do not fall for this scam. Read everything Randi has to say about this company!

See randi.org/joom/content/view/121/#i7 to refresh your memory of a major silly scam being used to extract cash from na've audio fans. As I've told readers before, I often get involved in trying to establish a correspondence with the scammers, and that sometimes results in protracted exchanges. With that in mind, read the following emails between reader Matt Schaffner and Geoff Kait, the genius behind this whole Machina Dynamica farce. Matt wrote me:

I teach music technology at an accredited university in Louisville, Kentucky. When I read your blurb on the inventions at Machina Dynamica, I was stunned at their awesome claims. Knowing full well that they are a total fraud, I've been baiting the company's creator with emails. All of the classic signs of woo'woo are here: no reputable references, no outside testing, devices work by mysteriously harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics, etc. I thought you might be interested in our ongoing email exchange. This man is stealing people's money. Please let me know if I can donate to your cause by helping to expose this man.

The email exchange follows. First, Matt approached the Machina Dynamica CEO:

Geoff, I teach classes on music technology at an accredited university. I would like to test some of your products and publish materials on them. I am very excited about the possibility of seeing and hearing some of your devices. Is there any way we might discuss this further?

A prompt response followed from Geoff Kait:

Hello, Matt, thanks for your interest in Machina Dynamica. I respectfully decline to submit any of our products for testing.

Persisting, Matt wrote back:

Do you have any published materials on the testing and performance of your products?

Geoff countered with a desperate alibi:

Matt – All testing information is proprietary. Performance data is also proprietary. All information that we deem relevant is published on Machina Dynamica’s web site.

Translated: No. Matt, ever patient, asked:

Ok, I understand. I wanted to perform an in-class comparison of your goods with other well known audio products. Additionally, I was going to publish some materials concerning comparisons between high–end sound technologies. How can I get information on your data? Have there been any reviews of your products in magazines or online?

In a somewhat ominous tone, Machina Dynamica answered:

I don't think you realize what you're getting yourself into. There is so much information available on-line you won't have enough time in a year or two to thoroughly examine it all, much less come to conclusions on the effectiveness of these products or how they compare to other products.

There was a review of Intelligent Chip by 2 PhDs at 6 Moons in Jan 07: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/photoncannons/photoncannons.html. There was a review of Clever Little Clock in Positive Feedback last year: positive feedback.com/Issue23/clock_nespa.htm. I have a white paper on Brilliant Pebbles at: machinadynamica.com/machina17.htm. I have a paper on Intelligent Chip at: machinadynamica.com/machina64.htm. Review of Intelligent Box by 2 PhDs at 6moons.com/audioreviews/machinadynamica2/ib.html.

Despite the mass of data contained in these references, our only interest at the JREF is: does the thing work? Similarly, Matt assured Geoff that he was undeterred:

I have students that can filter through much of this information. Also, reading things like this is what I do for a living. I have plenty of time to read, and if I only spend a single year doing research then I'm happy. Any additional material you have would be helpful. Do you have any other websites?

Geoff fired back:

Matt, my website has many pages; there is navigation at the top of the main page. www.machinadynamica.com

Ever gracious, Matt wrote:

Thanks, the pages on your site helped. None of the writing seems to describe the mechanisms of your inventions. Do you have the patent number for these devices so that I might see how exactly they work? I am very interested in the Intelligent Box and Card. I'm not seeing exactly what these do, and especially how they might work. I'm curious as to what exactly is changed on a CD to enhance its sound, as a CD contains data in the form of a dye. Do you change the dye somehow?

Thanks for all your help!

Then this salvo was fired off by Geoff:

Patents too expensive, furthermore I don’t wish to reveal certain information so I don't go that route. Ironically, much safer not to have patent in these cases.

The Intelligent Box/Intelligent Card is the evolution of the Intelligent Chip, which does the same thing as the Box. The box replicates the CD player laser and gets the active material very close to the CD, one thing the Intelligent Chip did not do the Chip was placed on top of the player chassis while the CD played for 2 seconds. But the effects of the Chip and the Box are the same. The explanation of the Box is the same as for the Chip – quantum mechanics photon interaction with the CD material. It's all explained in excruciating detail in my paper on the Intelligent Chip.

This is just blather, with no science factor at all, only buzz-words and fakery. And, obviously, a patent on such devices would not be too expensive, at all if they worked.. The USPTO [United States Patent and Trademark Office] tends to award patents to just about any devices mentioned to them, whether they actually exist or not, and whether they work at all. However, I find two things here with which I and Matt Schaffner can enthusiastically agree. First, I'm sure, as Geoff Kait wrote, that the effects of the Chip and the Box are the same. The Intelligent Chip does exactly the same thing that the Intelligent Box does exactly nothing. Second, yes, I'm sure that there is “excruciating detail in that learned paper.

Ah, but as we go to press, Matt reports:

Here's the latest from Geoff Kait at Machina Dynamics. Apparently he has now created a CD cleaner using "fake" atoms name brand atoms are so expensive. This is his response to my email:

Begin response:

The Box has a dedicated laser in it (so the box simulates the CD player "box" and laser). The advantage of the Intelligent Box is that the active material in the card is inserted into the interior of the Box so the active ingredient is very close to the laser and the CD, which is placed on top of the Intelligent Box when treating it. The top of the Box is clear so the CD is exposed to the photons of the laser and the photons emitted by the card when the laser strikes it. The active ingredient is contained in a thin layer spread out in the card's interior, like a sandwich. The simultaneous interaction of the laser photons and the Card photons with the polycarbonate layer of the CD improves the transparency of the layer so that when the CD is played the CD player laser "reads" the embedded data more accurately.

Comments Matt:

The active ingredient in the Card as for the Chip is actually artificial atoms! Pretty innovative for an audio product, wouldn't you say?

Oh, very

Paul
Bozeman, Montana
U.S.A.