@mahgister eventually you will have to choose light or keep walking the path of Swiss neutrality, of course we all know how that ends...and end it shall Uber, because the truth almost always comes out in the end. Taxes, DNA samples, interpreters notes.... fill in the blank, we will know eventually tick tock...... |
Hating each other wont help anybody...... It is tiresome... I must even watch what i say now because 2 person i love much are against each other about a third.... «Hate is the baloney of the meek brain» -Groucho Marx Like it or not, geoffkait was probably tired to be glued on the ass by remoras....It is not always an easy spoken poerson but if someone dont hurt his feet he can be helpful.... Saying what is on our mind is one thing, harassing others another one, and hating someone a boring business indeed.... Read books that can help.... Try a prayer.... If you dont like to read or pray buy a mirror.... :) « Why owning a mirror? It is easy meditation for the poor» -Groucho Marx |
Excellent post, @jetter. Are you as amused as I by how using springs for isolation is now all the rage here, when GK had been singing it’s praises for years and was completely ignored? (Not by I; I have both models of his springs under various components.). I guess he has no one to blame but himself for that, considering some of the other items he offers on his Machina Dynamica website. Speaking of spring isolation: the Townshend Seismic line of products takes si to another level, but are considerably more expensive than simple springs. They too have been praised here on Audiogon, though GK posited that their damping function results in less isolation than bare springs. Those interested enough to investigate can easily find the Townshend Audio YouTube videos, wherein Max Townshend explains the theory behind and demonstrated the effectiveness of his Seismic Pod. |
I certainly do not wish GK any illwill at all and hope he is well. However he came across as very condescending in majority of our interactions and always seemed to think it was best to belittle anyone and everyone. Nobody had to " attack" him first. That's just the way he was. I hope AudioAsylum knows what it has let itself in for........ |
I happen to like Geoff. I always felt people attacked him 1st, and he went into defense mode, obviously, attacking back. The way I see it, A'gon is not the same as years ago. I am on other sites, and there is less crap, and more professionalism, on these other sites. Maybe, Geoff, wised up, and is less interested, or fed up, with what goes on here, on the A'gon. Enjoy, be well and stay safe....all ! |
as I recently said.. Come Back Geoff Kait! - Audiogon Discussion Forumforum.audiogon.com › come-back-geoff-kait › postI called Geoff and left a message of goodwill and concern sometime in early August. Look on line every couple of days in Virginia for any news.2 days ago Tom - 6 posts - 4 authors Nothing on line today. Tom |
At least one out of one hundred of GKs posts were funny and he came off knowledgeable. Your postings seems like the result of some kind of obsessive weirdness.. Why else would you make unlimited references to your virtual page? Why else would you repeat the same boring fanboy messages as if we didn’t have them memorized the second time? We’re talking about six thousand posts in 22 months. And you are one of the two posters on this site who wrote offensive, belittling things about Almarg’s system. GK treated Al with the respect he deserves. Why do I remember, because I couldn’t believe someone took the time to insult the most liked gentleman on A’gon. As far as I am concerned the wrong clown is gone from this site. For example millercarbon’s post about Al’s system in the "To good a post to waste" thread, even referencing us to Al’s system’s page to mock it: millercarbon OP6,028 posts07-04-2020 10:11pm The “genius” who lists “stock cables” on his profile Audiogon Systems. That says it all.No way. Yes way! https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/3676 Not only freebie rubber power cords, but lamp cord to the speakers. Nothing to do now but apologize. Sorry, almarg. I had no idea. Sorry. And, Al’s usual gentlemanly response: almarg9,670 posts07-05-2020 6:31amGentlemen (and others), this thread is not about me or my system. My initial lengthy post which precipitated much of the recent argument provided technical explanations supportive of the belief that cables can sound different depending on the application in which they are used. That belief being widely (and IMO correctly) held by many audiophiles. Subsequent responses insulting my system constitute "argumentum ad hominem." As stated in that Wikipedia writeup: ... argumentum ad hominem is a term that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue. Regards, -- Al How about this one by Al: almarg9,670 posts07-14-2019 3:28pmMillercarbon, was all that gratuitous nastiness really called for, and did it serve any useful purpose? Elizabeth has been a respected member here for vastly longer than you have, and her comments, while not invariably correct, have been helpful to countless people on countless occasions. Regards, -- Al Check around, you will see I am a mild mannered middle of the road person. I have never reported anyone in my 20 years here, but if I thought it would get you on your way I would do it in a heartbeat. |
As MC so eloquently stated earlier, we rarely agree on anything but it does appear GK is the exception.Simple, extreme views meets at the infinite.... But in regular projective geometry the infinite is embedded in the finite and the reverse in polar counter Euclidean geometry.... :) I like the word "embed" because in English it link the 3 activities i like the most : love, geometry and audio.... « But what separate the finite from the infinite? A common repulsive object» -Groucho Marx « Your bad metaphor are no more geometry»- Harpo Marx |
Why is this thread even still here? For weeks the mere mention of his name was enough to get a post removed. Now a whole thread devoted to him and its okay. What if we can now link to his crazy website? Used to be that was guaranteed to get removed. Let's see https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina5.htm Sadly, the Teleportation Tweak is taken down. Imagine that.
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We need more and more unreasonable men in high end audio, it seems. As we can’t let the trivial people wear us down. Otherwise... progress ends.I like your post....Thanks... My best to you.... By the way it is better most of the times to try to look for what is good in a man than underlining only what is bad.... In each of us good and bad are mixed like a pudding... And because of the second law of thermodynamics, nobody can unmix and underlining some of the ingredients without paying a price..... :) |
When I first came here, within a few posts GK was attacking me on the basis of science. Trying to correct me on basic science. High school stuff. He at first seemed like just a normal guy confused about a few things. Within one exchange though it was obvious something else was going on. I decided to do some due diligence. A little searching turned up a disturbing record. The only on-line reference from someone who actually met him was he enjoys making fun of audiophiles. The more serious you are about it the more he likes to make fun of you. I read through a bunch of his posts. Sure enough, zero helpful info, 100% jabs and barbs. All the humor is at others expense. Its relentless. I don't agree with uberwaltz about much, if anything, but when he says GK was insulting and degrading he is absolutely right on. Never once have I seen him actually offer genuine sincere help or guidance. I mean that. Posted a standing challenge to find a single post to prove me wrong. No takers. There is no such post. He sells springs, sure, and they may even work. But he also was charging hundreds of dollars claiming to make your stereo sound better over the phone. Its genuinely dispiriting to see anyone here thinking there was anything good about GK and his 20k posts. There were whole threads, dozens, hundreds, that devolved to nothing more than GK and his little band of babblers back and forthing the most childish insulting barbs. He may have helped a person here or there but for every one he helped, or entertained, I bet there's a dozen he hurt. I would be one. If anyone making a lick of sense had been pushing springs I would have been using them much, much earlier. Because the minute it was explained clearly by someone NOT a loon I latched right onto it. Who knows how many other bona fide great low cost tweaks were tainted and ruined by his incessant insulting "humor". I do hope he's alive, but that is all. If I never see another one of his posts anywhere ever it will be too soon. |
Recent posts on Audio Asylum...that's interesting. I do hope that he's well, and it seems that he is then. Maybe someone here angered him and he decided to take a break. We all have a right to post here, but I personally don't miss most of his posts. They weren't what I consider humorous most of the time. |
He should really be posting here. His ability to withstand the jabs and the pressures from the ’great mentally unwashed’ was/is unparalleled. As a metaphor, one might say he has a mental postive pH of 14 and the ’negative proofing’ mindset types (definitively not the invention types!) have a mental pH of negative14. When they mixed, the froth was immediate and continual. The negative would eventually expire or become the unrealized walking wounded (I’m fine, I’ll walk it off!)...and he would remain at +14. Three quotes from two of our best, that say it all: From Earnest Rutherford: "All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial." "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." Too many stamp collectors around here confuse themselves with the idea that they are in the knowing in physics. Physics as an exploration is not trivial. See the first quote for clarity. The trivial is the dogma part that is in the textbooks. It is there for engineers when they build bridges. Huge divide.... and the two cannot mix. Point: All of high end audio is an exploration. Therefore, keep one’s negative proofing and stamp collecting to one’s self. It has no place here. It is trivial. Let me re-phrase. One uses it to get up to pace or the edge. It’s a map. It is NOT the territory. From that point of being up to date (the book is a map to the edge) where, when arriving at the edge...the book and the data therein.. are all up to being questioned, changed, or even dismissed entirely. THAT is physics. THAT is high end audio. High end audio is an equation with multiple unknowns and the trivial cannot reach it, nor solve it. The big one being that few seem to understand that human hearing and how this translates to engineering, is very much an unsolved mystery. If this seems crazy, remember that no one here can explain what reality, or an atom is, or what gravity is, or what time is. The very basis of the carrier for your so called intelligence/being/self... is a giant freaking unknown. So stop it with the bloodclot crying about audio oddities. Jebus. George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” We need more and more unreasonable men in high end audio, it seems. As we can’t let the trivial people wear us down. Otherwise... progress ends. |
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Millercarbon and Uberwaltzwhaaaatttttt? In the same breath as MC? Must try harder......... But I am amused. Growing up is so yesterday Good to hear you came out of the hospital feeling much better Oldhvymec. And if anybody REALLY wants to know what happened to Katie do the obvious, as I did, ask Admin...duh! The End! |
They say nobody is indispensable, but GK comes close. Sure hope he hasn't retired or worse. I come here for high-level entertainment, dammit! Worth every penny. With GK aboard I'd feel downright guilty about reading it all for free. Brilliant. Yes so indispensable it took less than 3 months to notice he was old gnus. |
