The link is the easy bit.
What's inside?
At those prices? Snake oil and fairy dust. No DAC / streamer is worth that much.
The link is the easy bit.
What's inside?
So why did you leave it out?The link is the easy bit.
Don’t know. Stopped reading after tape decks.What's inside?
You can't be serious.USD 15k.
Anyone got any inside info? Any details of design and similar? What's in the box? Snake oil and marketeering, or something worth further investigation?
(Disclaimer - I don't have $15k for a PC in a fancy case.)
What's in the box, you ask? I would guess Ted's soul, since he sells it every chance he gets.
Giving Thed too much credit.What's in the box, you ask? I would guess Ted's soul, since he sells it every chance he gets.
Clearly, you guys forgot to tag meSynergistic Research Voodoo Streaming Server
What's inside?
Probably for future upgrade at 3k$ or soBTW, single-channel memory.. WTF!
Is there a whole PC inside, do I really see an actual removable RAM stick and a CPU? Lmao.USD 15k.
Anyone got any inside info? Any details of design and similar? What's in the box? Snake oil and marketeering, or something worth further investigation?
(Disclaimer - I don't have $15k for a PC in a fancy case.)
That's not strange,that's what a streamer is,a PC,big or small,etc.Is there a whole PC inside, do I really see an actual removable RAM stick and a CPU? Lmao.
Edit: An M2 NVME too. My sides.
I’m an academic clinician/educator in internal medicine and infectious diseases and I find it reprehensible that he would exploit those living with chronic illness by promoting false hopes and desperate measures to improve their wellbeing through the purchase of outlandishly priced pseudoscience. I’ve never seen anything like this—I wonder if the supposed psychiatrist he ran this by truly knows what he’s up to. I too posted a nasty reprisal on this video’s comments. This is just the worst. GOD.I just reported this video and the Daniel Hertz website to the FDA for making false medical claims.
Seriously, F this guy. Someone dying from liver failure could buy one of these amps based on his BS. Then they'd be dying and $12K poorer. This is not just the normal snake oil, this is pushing the boundaries of honest-to-god criminality IMO.
I also left a mean comment on the youtube video. That'll show him!
The worst part... he claims that digital audio harms your health and his "c-wave" fixes it. And yes, you guessed it, the "C-wave process" is... digital.
Where to start...
Matt, your not used to dealing with people with severe mental problems. Many decades ago when I was a police officer I would get a call by concerned neighbors and or family members to check on someone. When I went into the house and saw any aluminum foil action or other weirdness, I would arrest them and take them to the county mental health building. Then the nurses there would give them a starter shot of Thorazine which slows them down so much they become docile little lambs. After a few days of that they would get other medications and be released. They were always good until they went off their meds and then I would have to start the process all over. In today's world they just start selling audiophile woo. Very sad.I was reading a post on another website in a thread devoted to tweaks, and here was one listener's tweak routine...just to listen to music on headphones:
My current short list of tweaks for headphone optimization, I can proudly say I have an outside the headphones soundstage that’s up to ten or twenty feet out in front and all around me.
1. Play Schumann 7.83 Hz streamed from YouTube (isochronic tone) 15 minutes prior to listening.iPad at distance of 3 feet. synchronize the neurons!
2. play Schumann 7.83 Hz while listening with headphones. Distance of iPad 3 feet.
3. CD Purity CD spray to reduce effects of polycarbonate porosity. Polycarbonate is only about 91% transparent. Also reduces laser scattering.
4. 3 strips of 3M Super 88 tape 1.5” long and cut in half lengthwise on label side of CD, radially. For disc stability.
5. All CDs twice quasi cryo‘d QC’d in freezer 2x48 hours.
6. Demag/Destatic CD prior to playing - rotate disc with thumb of one hand whilst holding demag steady over totaling disc with other hand, rotate disc 3 times. Also rotate CD perpendicular to demag to get the outer edge… better safe than sorry.
Imagine your neurosis driving you to those lengths!
Then I saw the signature at the bottom of the post:
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Well, of course. I know Geoff has come up before in the forum as a snake oil salesman. Probably his notorious tweak is the Teleportation Tweak, where he tweaks the sound of your system over the phone in 20 seconds:
How the Teleportation Tweak Works
Teleportation Tweak explanation How it Works
TELEPORTATION TWEAK EXPLANATION, MORPHIC FIELDS, AUDIOwww.machinadynamica.com
I'm curious if he ever managed to find a dupe who paid for that. I interacted with Kait quite a bit on audiogon, and it was a real POE's Law problem, especially as he had a very jokey, sarcastic nature that made him seem unserious. In the end I concluded he was generally serious about the tweaky stuff. He lists his professional education:
Geoff Kait, education: Aerospace Engineering (theoretical fluid dynamics, propulsion, statistical thermodynamics, nuclear physics, indeterminate structures). Work experience: NASA satellite operations and radar data analysis; aerodynamics of high-performance aircraft and reentry vehicles; radio and satellite communications; spread spectrum communications.
Which makes me wonder what the truth is. It's always possible someone with that experience could go way off the beaten path.
There was another member on audiogon who would talk about the wildest tweaks, lots of stuff similar to Kait, lots of weird materials, pebbles, tin foil or whatever. At one point he had a bunch of photos of his "reference system" and it as THE most bizarre set of audiophile photos I've ever seen. It looked like the unkept bare cement walled basement of a serial killer, with sparkly or silvery bits of tape and material hangind and taped everywhere (to align the right "fields"), weird things placed on pipes, cables, with a bizzare cheap set of little speakers in nearfield. Words don't do justice, but unfortunately those photos are no longer there.
Matt, your not used to dealing with people with severe mental problems. Many decades ago when I was a police officer I would get a call by concerned neighbors and or family members to check on someone. When I went into the house and saw any aluminum foil action or other weirdness, I would arrest them and take them to the county mental health building. Then the nurses there would give them a starter shot of Thorazine which slows them down so much they become docile little lambs. After a few days of that they would get other medications and be released. They were always good until they went off their meds and then I would have to start the process all over. In today's world they just start selling audiophile woo. Very sad.
To @Spkrdctr 's point, when you can't tell "genuine" audiophile tweaks from serious mental illness, well... who's to say whether the audiophile in question is mostly audiophile or just mostly in need of medical intervention.I was reading a post on another website in a thread devoted to tweaks, and here was one listener's tweak routine...just to listen to music on headphones:
My current short list of tweaks for headphone optimization, I can proudly say I have an outside the headphones soundstage that’s up to ten or twenty feet out in front and all around me.
1. Play Schumann 7.83 Hz streamed from YouTube (isochronic tone) 15 minutes prior to listening.iPad at distance of 3 feet. synchronize the neurons!
2. play Schumann 7.83 Hz while listening with headphones. Distance of iPad 3 feet.
3. CD Purity CD spray to reduce effects of polycarbonate porosity. Polycarbonate is only about 91% transparent. Also reduces laser scattering.
4. 3 strips of 3M Super 88 tape 1.5” long and cut in half lengthwise on label side of CD, radially. For disc stability.
5. All CDs twice quasi cryo‘d QC’d in freezer 2x48 hours.
6. Demag/Destatic CD prior to playing - rotate disc with thumb of one hand whilst holding demag steady over totaling disc with other hand, rotate disc 3 times. Also rotate CD perpendicular to demag to get the outer edge… better safe than sorry.
Imagine your neurosis driving you to those lengths!
Then I saw the signature at the bottom of the post:
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Well, of course. I know Geoff has come up before in the forum as a snake oil salesman. Probably his notorious tweak is the Teleportation Tweak, where he tweaks the sound of your system over the phone in 20 seconds:
How the Teleportation Tweak Works
Teleportation Tweak explanation How it Works
TELEPORTATION TWEAK EXPLANATION, MORPHIC FIELDS, AUDIOwww.machinadynamica.com
I'm curious if he ever managed to find a dupe who paid for that. I interacted with Kait quite a bit on audiogon, and it was a real POE's Law problem, especially as he had a very jokey, sarcastic nature that made him seem unserious. In the end I concluded he was generally serious about the tweaky stuff. He lists his professional education:
Geoff Kait, education: Aerospace Engineering (theoretical fluid dynamics, propulsion, statistical thermodynamics, nuclear physics, indeterminate structures). Work experience: NASA satellite operations and radar data analysis; aerodynamics of high-performance aircraft and reentry vehicles; radio and satellite communications; spread spectrum communications.
Which makes me wonder what the truth is. It's always possible someone with that experience could go way off the beaten path.
There was another member on audiogon who would talk about the wildest tweaks, lots of stuff similar to Kait, lots of weird materials, pebbles, tin foil or whatever. At one point he had a bunch of photos of his "reference system" and it as THE most bizarre set of audiophile photos I've ever seen. It looked like the unkept bare cement walled basement of a serial killer, with sparkly or silvery bits of tape and material hangind and taped everywhere (to align the right "fields"), weird things placed on pipes, cables, with a bizzare cheap set of little speakers in nearfield. Words don't do justice, but unfortunately those photos are no longer there.
Place the headphones on your head with the active diaphragms facing away from your ears.Actually, only quoted by MattHooper: "My current short list of tweaks for headphone optimization, I can proudly say I have an outside the headphones soundstage that’s up to ten or twenty feet out in front and all around me."