"Malman, do I look like I care what you think? 🙄 Your post is not only a drive-by shooting but it’s a hijacking. You can’t even stay on topic. And stop stalking me. "
Well evidently the answer to do you care is yes and like clockwork the guy with 18,000+ comments shows up.
The amusing thing about stuff you say can best be illustrated like this. You accuse me of being a thread hijacker but two comments above say
" Yes, beveling the outer edge of the CD to make the disc perfectly round is a good idea since it reduces the CD flutter and vibration. The disc still needs to be stiffened, I have a solution but it’s secret, it’s the Mystery Tweak. "
++ to atdavid for his correct summation of your contributions. Oh and please quit stalking me if you have nothing worthwhile to say.
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Geoffkait I have to say to me you come off like someone with way to much time on their hands and enough knowledge and buzz word coherence to be dangerously misleading to people actually looking for answers. atdavid has you pegged correctly.
atdavid I have a question unrelated to this thread but maybe you would know. I am looking for speaker box constructing software that would include the ability to model in deflectors to stop standing wave problems. Do you have any ideas?
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For a drive-by shooting, his aim was incredibly accurate.
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Well it is a big slow moving target to hit so there is that to consider too.
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So you don't have anything to show eh?
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" True, but it is always "spinning" so that does increase the level of difficulty. "
I see 5 threads started and 18,520 comments so we know he can’t be a serious inquiring mind about audio. I went to see what he was selling and lo and behold I see "Brilliant Pebbles" in the list."Blue Meanies" too and I think you will enjoy his for sale list. Not exactly what I would expect from a pedigreed engineer and self anointed master of all things audio.
I wanted to have a look at his system and still hunting for that. OK just did a search under"geoffkait" in "Virtual Systems" for his system and he does not have one there he cares to share or talk about. I wonder why?
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So GK what are you running for your personal system and where can we go to see pictures of it?
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I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
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Look for Mahlman under Virtual Systems and I am there.
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This is, kind of, unfair.
Everybody, at least almost everybody,
picks on geoffkait’s wares for being, ummm, slightly questionable. He is
the joke of audiogon never taken seriously.
At the same time,
you have companies that have products with similarly bizarre claims and
they do not get that much bad attention as geoffkait’s. They actually
have supporters while geoffkait is fighting alone.
He may have a
bit abrasive way of communicating and may not be a sweet-talker as some
of the other voodoo artists are, but his products are no more outrageous
and laughable.
I am not, in any way, trying to imply that geoffkait should be taken seriously."
He is not the only one I laugh at here as there are more preposterous dumb things offered through Audiogon than the mind can comprehend. It was a bit surprising though to see GK selling these kinds of things and in my mind is a serious strike against his credibility in anything audio. Beeswax fuses and Blackout Paint are two of my favorites for theater of the audio absurd. Cable cookers is another. I had no idea he was involved in selling that kind of nonsense until I looked today.
In a way I do admire the entrepreneurial spirit that offers these things to people that buy them and I believe it was PT Barnum that said there was a sucker born every minute. If people insist on throwing their money away someone needs to collect it.
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(you edited to offer the buffing comment) "
Ended up having to buff the top only because the engraving left a bit of roughness to the edges for one and I like the satin look it gives as a contrast to the shiny cavity.
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You aren't the only one selling things. I machine tweeter lenses called MAHL tweeter lenses as replacements for two of Klipsch's tweeters. I just never pushed them here because this is not a very big Klipsch site.Look up MAHL on ebay to see.
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" I may be the only one around who has never visited that famous geoffkait’s website, but I thought that Cable Cooker was someone else’s. I actually visited that website.
Overall, it seems that geoffkait gets the most laughs for silly products while others’ are at times discussed with some seriousness and fierce defense of them. geoffkait at least stays relatively low-key with his advertisements. Others go full attack on anyone not bowing.
That is not to say he is correct, etc., but he is no worse than many.
No the cable cooker is not GK’s I was lumping silly things together. I don't think the beeswax fuses or Blackout Paint is his either.
" >>>>Be that as it may I am no. 1 in sales and feedback. Have been for a great many years here. Guess I get to have the last laugh, cowboy. When I was in school I told people I was going to be a comedian one day and they all laughed at me. Well, noone’s laughing now! As for looking at your virtual system I’ve think I’ve seen enough. But thanks, anyway. "
I have no idea of your sales volume but you fill an niche with willing seller willing buyer products that no one was forced to buy. I am in awe of the chutzpah you have for doing this and I have to imagine the many hours of laughter accompanied R&D as you pondered how to part fools from their money. It kind of puts your regular commentaries in perspective and while I am not going to take you as serious I am going to be quietly amused and a tip of the hat to you for being an entrepreneur. Comedy as you say is the bonus.
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" Looked it up, pretty neat stuff. Trying to get a better impedance match on the air vs the throat and dome?
machining the throat/horn is a bit of a bear, I’ll wager. that’s some painful bit of CNC work, probably with some notable finishing work. (I bought a 5 axis CNC set up a while back)"
It is a migration from the older tweeters used by Klipsch in many Heritage speakers to a modern tractix curve inside the lens cavity. Also meant to allow for mounting more than one type of driver if you choose to experiment. The best drivers so far keeping costs contained to reasonable levels have been the B&C DE10 and DE120.
Don’t know how to answer your impedence match comment but this was tested with TrueRTA and REW to curve much better than existing Klipsch Vintage tweeters and so far measures very well against anything else offered to fit as an OEM replacement for K-77 and K-76,79,792etc too.
Machining is a breeze just using HSM and a ,007 step over with a .5" .09" corner round bull nose end mill. Stickout is 1.625 inches flute length so plenty of reach to cut it all. Modeled in Solid Edge and cut on a Haas VF4. There is no hand finishing required inside the cavity. I do buff the top with scotchbrite as I think it looks better that way.
Learning how to model this kind of part was the big problem.
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Say I do have some questions on one of the topics brought up in this thread. RE the Teleportation Tweak. I figure since we have been promised some info on it I was wondering about a couple of things.
Will the Solar Minimum allow for better or lesser quality installs over time?
Does the constant shifting of the true Magnetic North change the install of TT at all?
I worry about ice buildup or shrinkage at the North and South Poles and Greenland and if current levels change and the Earths roundness is distorted from this will it effect the Van Allen Belts and how would this effect TT?
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Hey GK, I only get like a half bar on my phone and what would the bar level be on average with the TT?
Have you ever thought about adding solar flare protection to the tweak?
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atdavid, You appear to be blissfully ignorant of the Loudness Wars. But
that’s OK, it’s a common newbie mistake. What I’m referring to isn’t
simply dynamic range compression which a great many recordings have
always exhibited to some degree. It’s aggressive dynamic range compression I’m referring to. You know, the suffocation of the music. 🥵
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OK how do you reverse such a thing, if it can be done? Have you tried Audacity? For my purposes it does seem to make things better most of the time.
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