Well, it's your industry to the extent that you're part of the pro audio industry. In the neighborhood where I live anyone who is unfamiliar with Geoff Kait, Peter and May Belt and their products, you know, Brilliant Pebbles, the Clever Little Clock, Silver Rainbow Foil, Cream Electret, and the Clever Little Clock and the Teleportation Tweak other high end audio products such as Schumann Frequency Generators, Mpingo Discs, Green Pen, Shakti Stone, Shakti Hallographs, SteinMusic Harmonizer, Argent Room Lens, Franck Acoustic Resonators (aka tiny little bowl resonators), mu metal, Nordost anti static spray, Essence of Music CD treatment! Shun Mook Cable Jacket, Marigo VTS Dots and negative ion guns has been living in a cave for the last 30 years. The war is over time to come out and join the party. As things stand you're no more a part of high end audio than my Aunt Sally and are obviously a troll for the pro audio industry.

Geoff Kait
Machina Dramatica

Mg :-
>>> “as well as give advice on their products and also how to tweak your systems in their very unique way.” <<<

Michael. I have already told you why I don’t post about our products. I will tell you again in case you have forgotten so quickly. I follow certain guidelines for manufacturers being allowed to participate in general chat forums and I don’t wish to show disrespect to Stereophile by breaking those guidelines and constantly ‘posting about our own products or techniques’.

YOU obviously have never read Ariel Bitran’s “Note to manufacturers”.

>>> “The Stereophile forum is not to be used by manufacturers as a pulpit to promote their products or discredit the products of others.” <<<

I, personally, do not promote our products on Stereophile and nor do I discredit the products of others !!

If I challenge anything you do at all, Michael, it is on your claim that your “variable tuning” is THE answer and on your claim that your “variable tuning” is THE method. As opposed to them being just ONE of many answers and methods !!

Mg:-
>>> “you'll see my focus on audio being variable and the methods we us to tune them. We don't want to marginalize the "fixed" tweaks as May & geoff suggest we do. However we do believe that the audio signal and soundstage is a vast playground with many opportunities to explore.” <<<

You DO marginalize “fixed” tweaks as soon as you claim that your “variable tuning” is THE answer and that your “variable tuning” is THE method !! The capital letters of THE which you have used means ‘the one and only’.

A “vast playground with many opportunities to explore” ??? Don’t tell me, Michael, that at long last you are ACTUALLY finally admitting that ‘variable tuning’ is NOT “THE” answer, that ‘variable tuning’ is NOT “THE” method (which is what you HAVE claimed) but are only ONE answer and ONE method of MANY “opportunities to explore” ????????????

Yipee !!!! We are actually getting somewhere !! NOW, let’s bring into the discussion SOME of these “other opportunities” shall we !!

Regards,
May Belt,
PWB Electronics.

All of this jibber jabber is coming from the guy who claims he can tell what a system sounds like by looking at a photo of the room or by seeing what someone lists as his system. That's probably one of the biggest differences between pro audio dudes and advanced audiophiles, actually, that advanced audiophiles aren't blinded by some room configuration, the brand names or prices of system components or the media involved. Now, if someone wants to pass himself off as the Great Carnac and claim to know what a system sounds like through some sort of mental telepathy that's fine with me. In TunnelLand's world eveything is predictable and known. In the advanced audiophile's world, on the other hand, things are not so predictable and set in their ways at all. Eveything is not known in the advanced audiophile's world and progress is made through careful analysis and discovery. Problems are identified and solutions are found. You know, just like in real Science. Not some contrived, self taught, self perpetuating house of cards.

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

Can't do a simple scientific comparison...

Geoffy wrote...

"Take a cable with a black jacket and listen to it so younger [sic] an idea what it sounds like. Then wrap the outside of the black jacket say 1/4 the length with WHITE electrical tape. Listen to the cable again. You should be able to hear the sound is better with the white tape around the jacket."

Go back to http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml and read where you went wrong here.

Are you smarter than a 5th Grader, Geoffy?

Nope.

If you mean by jester someone who has a sense of humor, you are correct, sir! Unlike yourself, who's proven to be a dour, uninformed liar. Maybe you can pick up Jokes for the John or something. In case case, please attempt to be just a little more entertaining and jovial as I tire of your year long tirade. Have a nice hair day,

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

If you mean by jester someone who has a sense of humor, you are correct, sir! Unlike yourself, who's proven to be a dour, uninformed liar. Maybe you can pick up Jokes for the John or something. Be that as it may can I make a suggestion? Try to be a little bit more entertaining and jovial as I tire of your year long sourpuss tirade. As usual, everything's topsy, turvy. Me topsy, you turvy.

Have a nice hair day,

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

Michael, no need for sarcasm or snarkiness. You are not the arbiter of sound or the arbiter of what a system should be composed of or any such thing. I have described in detail my previous audio already. You know, the one with the modded Oppo and the Sennheiser 600s and the pure Class A tube headphone amp. Hel-looo! And I have described my current portable systems in detail. Many times. You know, the Sony Cassette Walkman with Sony ultralight headphones and Sony CD Walkman with Sony Ultralight headphones. You remember now? The World's Lowest Mass System. Eat more fish. Take some Ambien. Feel better.

There are many reasons to have a very small portable Cassette or CD system. We've been through this before many times but I will summarize briefly for your benefit. There is no room to interfere with the sound. There is no house AC power to distort and corrupt the sound. There are no power cords to distort the sound. There are no bulky speaker cables or interconnects to distort the sound. There are no speakers with big magnetic structures to distort the sound. There are no circuit no boards to vibrate. There is no metal chassis to vibrate. There are no transformers to corrupt and distort the sound. There are no large capacitors to distort the sound. There is no large CD transport motor to distort the sound. Most portable players have their own built in vibration isolation system, you know, so you can walk while playing them. Hel-loo!

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Worlds Lowest Mass System

Geoff:

I am interested to learn more about your modded Oppo..which model was it, and what were the modifications?

I seriously considered Oppo before changing my mind and going the different route of NAD 516 as just a transport, to my Bryston DAC.

Best Regards,

Ron

rrstesiak wrote:

Geoff:

I am interested to learn more about your modded Oppo..which model was it, and what were the modifications?

I seriously considered Oppo before changing my mind and going the different route of NAD 516 as just a transport, to my Bryston DAC.

Best Regards,

Ron

Excellent, now we're getting somewhere! The Oppo was the 103 and mods were done by Ric Schultz at Electronic Visionary Systems. The mods he did were all the digital mods and all the analog mods, which included super clock, the uniquitous Audio Magic Pulse Gen ZX, the linear power supply from OPPOMODS including the big honking toroidal transformer that was the subject of my mu metal and cork experiments a couple years ago. The generic Linear Power Supply capacitors were replaced by Panasonic caps by Ric. Extensive mods by your humble scribe included special ceramic tiles and spring iso system using heavy masses and special cryo'd high carbon springs of my own design for the modded Oppo 103, extensive use of WA quantum chips, mucho PWB Electonics devices such as cream electret, various foils, AC power corrector and colored magnadiscs, constrained layer damping of my design for the CD transport mechanism, also for the transformer and the top plate of iso stand, extensive use of 3M AB5100S EMI/RFI absorbing material, Marigo VTS dots (dampers) on all capacitors, mumetal on the steel chassis ( ! ), Animal Magnetism cable collars on power cord and interconnects, cover removed and replaced with clear flexiglass, Dark Matter for tray on top of color coded dots (Codename Turquoise) for the tray. Also should probably mention silver plated Acme Audio duplex wall outlet, my own Tru Tone Duplex Cover for the wall outlet, corked all circuit boards with my Quark! music cork. Another overlooked thing I did with my Oppo is to use mu metal and 3M AB 5100S to cover all of those tiny ribbon connectors found inside modern components.

Cheerios,

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

Geoff:

That is a very extensive and serious mod to an already great player..

In a few words, could you describe the changes in sound you noticed after the mods?

And yes, now we are getting somewhere! Thanks for your detailed reply.

Best Regards,

Ron

rrstesiak wrote:

Geoff:

That is a very extensive and serious mod to an already great player..

In a few words, could you describe the changes in sound you noticed after the mods?

And yes, now we are getting somewhere! Thanks for your detailed reply.

Best Regards,

Ron

I wouldn't call the stock Oppo a great player but it's difficult to quantify these things. The various mods and tweaks to the Oppo affect the sound in a number of ways, honestly I do not sit down and evaluate every single mod, that would be impossible. What we strive for, you could say, the reason I do these mods and tweaks is to retrieve to the maximum extent possible or feasible the information that is already on the discs, something a stock player is not really capable of. The mods and tweaks on the Oppo lower distortion, improve signal to noise ratio and dynamic range and reduce noise. Subjectively that results in greater naturalness, greater musicality, a more engaging sound, more warmth and sweetness, thise sorts of things. More like cassettes or vinyl, to use an analogy.

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

geoffkait wrote:

The mods and tweaks on the Oppo lower distortion, improve signal to noise ratio and dynamic range and reduce noise. Subjectively that results in greater naturalness, greater musicality, a more engaging sound, more warmth and sweetness, thise sorts of things. More like cassettes or vinyl, to use an analogy.
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

That's exactly what I was looking for..your overall impression. Sounds like it was a success.

Have you ever tried the tube mod?

Cheers,

Ron

"...it's difficult to quantify these things. The various mods and tweaks to the Oppo affect the sound in a number of ways, honestly I do not sit down and evaluate every single mod..."

Geoffy doesn't listen!

rrstesiak wrote:

geoffkait wrote:

The mods and tweaks on the Oppo lower distortion, improve signal to noise ratio and dynamic range and reduce noise. Subjectively that results in greater naturalness, greater musicality, a more engaging sound, more warmth and sweetness, thise sorts of things. More like cassettes or vinyl, to use an analogy.
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica

That's exactly what I was looking for..your overall impression. Sounds like it was a success.

Have you ever tried the tube mod?

Cheers,

Ron

Each modder has his own specialty, Ric doesn't do any tube mods as far as I know. Of the handful of dudes that do Oppo mods only one or two will do tube mods. Nothing against tubes. Not at all. I have had tube gear like forever. A really big advantage of the Oppo is you can run it directly into the amp. Very transparent sound.

Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica