What's the deal with the Machina Dynamica Clock?


Just my uninformed and untested opinion, and maybe I am wrong, but this Clever Little Clock sounds more like a Clever Little CROCK to me. Any true believers are welcome to enlighten me, but don't expect me to whip out the credit card just yet. Don't mean to "tick" anyone off. Note: sarcastic skeptical scoffers are also very welcome to post to this thread. :)
mdhoover

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You all will not believe this but check this out.

I am a doctoral physics student and when i came accross these clocks for the first time i just blew it off as B.S. but i got to thinking about it. I had just been reading an excellent article on the trans-metral implications of Shastkovski's theorem. There really could be some basis on this (the effect of the clocks on aural sensation) if you examine it using the string-theory interpretation. (you have to use the 11 dimensional manifold for it to really make sense)

I went down to my local Pamida and bought two travel alarm clocks, different brands. I then went to office depot and bought a pack of round orange stickers. In my home laboratory i carefully washed the clocks with lab-grade ethanol and then placed the two clocks on a properly grounded ESD mat. I then bathed the clocks in de-ionized air for about an hour. (27 deg C) Then, using a pair of stainless steel tweezers (i store these in ethanol) i carefully removed two of the round orange stickers from the sheets they are affixed to in the package.
I have a light grid that i can project onto a work surface - makes it easy to center stuff although the shadows are annoying. (edmund sells them) I carefully centered the stickers on the LCD displays of the clocks and then inserted the batteries. (stock batteries that came with the clocks).

I did not set the time or make any other adjustments.

I have two audiophile friends that have some serious systems. Just to give you an idea, one uses a MacIntosh for a power amp the other a pair of Dynaco's. We tried out my "clocks" and you would not believe the improvement in the listening experience. The sense of space, the clarity of vocal renderings was unreal. You could actually feel the vibration in Pavarotti's throat! It was like he was there in the room breathing.

I won't go into detail just yet but there is a conceiveable reaction between the metallic atoms in the ink of the paper (that's why they need to be orange) and the ground plane of the circuit board in the clock. This experiment seems to prove it out. Too bad i already have a thesis in place but this could be one of my first publications.

Try it! You will not be disappointed!
Shastkovski was a Belo-Russian brought up in Estonia. His original paper that was cited in the article was written while he was incarcerated on the Kolya peninsula. His work is based on work first pioneered by Nikola Tesla in his later years. String theory had not been discovered when the original paper was written, however applications of string theory to his work have yielded very interesting results.

As to this being my first post - true - i was drawn to this site by discussion of the clocks. Affording great audio equipment is still a few years in my future, but i can't wait! For now i have to live with my Bose wave radio/cd. I expect as i become more familiar with the site i will be posting more.

I admit my "experiment" was far from scientific in execution but the results were phenomenal. I will also admit that my friends had heard of these clocks and when i presented my clocks to them (as early christmas presents) i misrepresented to my friends that they were "originals". They were even more astounded when i revealed the truth.

What i'm really getting at is that you can make these clocks yourself and they really work!
My friends have done some further trials and found that while the de-ionized air adds just that extra bit of piquancy to the sound is is not strictly necessary as long as the sticker is applied directly after removing the unit from it's manufacturing package. The plastic protective sticker that the manufacturer put on the display should be removed slowly to help minimize any triboelectric charge that would build up on the surface of the display. They have also found that possibly green stickers will work even better than the orange ones. Do not use blue or red however.
The air de-ionizer is standard equipment for any ESD controlled workstation when you are working with sensitive circuitry. I borrowed mine from the university. (the research grant paid for it)