Ping Quint! - geoffkait - Tweakers' Asylum

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Ping Quint!

From your post on this forum of 4/30/10

"Back when I was much more tweak happy, I tried a couple of Geoff’s products. They didn’t really work for me, so I sold them, but at least I tried them for myself instead of just bashing them out of hand."

Rather odd that you go out of your way to say that because I have these comments from you back in 2005. How soon they forget!

"Those of you who've read my posts on Audio Asylum over the years know that I'm into tweaks. Sometimes they've worked, sometimes they haven't. But I've been on a big winning streak lately: Extreme SST, Herbie's Grungebuster2, RealityCheck and - perhaps most controversal of all - Machina Dynamica's Magic Pebbles (Brilliant Pebbles) and Clever Little Clock. But let me cut to the chase: the much-maligned Pebbles and Clock work as advertised! -- at least in my system. I'm the furthest thing from a techie, so I have absolutely no clue how these things work, but they do! I auditioned two Clocks and two Large Magic Pebbles. First the Clock. My reference track of late has been "Water of Love" off Dire Strait's impeccably recorded first album. Burned onto a CD-R using George Louis' RealityCheck, this track sounds as good as I've ever heard it. Enter the Clever Little Clocks. After listening to "Water of Love" sans magic timepieces, I placed the Clocks in my listening room -- one on a window sill, the other on my computer desk. Then I replayed "Water of Love." Damned if I didn't hear an immediate improvement -- and I mean an IMPROVEMENT, not just a change. At the beginning of "Water of Love" there's a very low-level percussion section that lasts about 7 seconds; with the Clocks in place, the rhythm/pace of this section was much more discernable... and previously unheard details emerged. Later on, Mark Knopfler's vocals were clearer and weightier, and dynamics were noticeably superior. Again, don't ask me how these wacky things work, but they do! And I'm not imagining it, either. I pride myself on having pretty good ears -- maybe not golden, but at least burnished copper :) -- and I know what I heard. And it was repeatable." - Quint, Nov 2005

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Topic - Ping Quint! - geoffkait 10:28:07 05/15/10 (13)

RE: Ping Quint! - Quint 12:38:34 05/15/10 (11)

Similar experiences - Norm 07:31:27 05/16/10 (10)

RE: Similar experiences - David Aiken 13:51:46 05/16/10 (0)

Surprise, surprise! - geoffkait 08:53:49 05/16/10 (8)

Geoff, that is not entirely true. - Norm 13:49:25 05/16/10 (7)

And who's fault is that? - geoffkait 03:24:37 05/17/10 (6)

So you say. I can understand that. nt - Norm 06:12:48 05/17/10 (5)

Look, I'll handle the jokes around here... - geoffkait 06:56:07 05/17/10 (4)

I did that and decided it was boring. - Norm 11:25:13 05/18/10 (3)

RE: "Who knows, maybe the wax helps. " Ah, sweet lemon.... - geoffkait 06:55:47 05/19/10 (2)

Of course not, but it may reduce the impact of loud noises. - Norm 07:11:30 05/19/10 (1)

Oh, you mean reduce dynamic range? Isn't that a bad thing? :-) nt - geoffkait 12:20:06 05/19/10 (0)

RE: Ping Quint! - wirewizard 11:18:09 05/15/10 (0)

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