OT: Audiophoolery
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope Audio, I feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one of the peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:21:28 -0700, "Bruce Lane"
kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com wrote:
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
That's absurd but if you want to delve into the tin-foil hat areas,
google for "speaker cable ager." I just can't bring myself to do so.
In short, some of the tin-foil hat types claim that a speaker cable
has to be aged with pink noise (the spectrum of which is vigorously
debated) before connecting to the system. A few companies sell aging
boxes and several others offer the 'service'. There also seems to be
some debate on whether the pink noise has to actually pass a current
through the cable or if its just being there is enough to do the
aging.
At that same altitude of looniness - waaaaaay out there - is the $50K
turntable where the works float on a pool of mercury contained in a
hollowed out lake on the top of about 2 tons of solid marble block. I
used to have the URL to this thing but I can't seem to find it.
Oh, and while we're at it, there's a company manufacturing (for about
$80 each) beeswax paper capacitors like we grew to know and hate in
old tube-type stuff. When I do a period-correct restoration of an old
radio I hollow out these damnable caps and put something modern
inside. The loonies claim these old paper caps are more "colorful"
even if it's only used as a screen bypass cap.
John
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Neon John wrote:
At that same altitude of looniness - waaaaaay out there - is the $50K
turntable where the works float on a pool of mercury contained in a
hollowed out lake on the top of about 2 tons of solid marble block. I
used to have the URL to this thing but I can't seem to find it.
John
Whoever devised that had probably breathed too much mercury vapour.
Mercury pools are exquisitely sensitive to seismic and traffic vibrations.
The usual way around this is to use a thin layer of mercury possibly with an oil film on top.
When used in a parabolic dish and spun up using airbearing drive a thin mercury film makes a high quality transit telescope.
Bruce
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 02:21, Bruce Lane wrote:
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope Audio, I feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one of the peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
Take a look at this "Aromatherapy and Audiophools" which appeared in
Electronics World and Wireless World, October 1999. I thought it was so
funny I scanned it and stuck it on my web site.
Thanks, Dave. Archived and stored. ;-)
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On 20-Apr-07 at 03:32 Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 02:21, Bruce Lane wrote:
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things
like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never
fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope Audio, I
feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one of the
peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
Take a look at this "Aromatherapy and Audiophools" which appeared in
Electronics World and Wireless World, October 1999. I thought it was so
funny I scanned it and stuck it on my web site.
http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/audiophools.pdf
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 02:21, Bruce Lane wrote:
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope Audio, I feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one of the peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
Take a look at this "Aromatherapy and Audiophools" which appeared in
Electronics World and Wireless World, October 1999. I thought it was so
funny I scanned it and stuck it on my web site.
I still remember the mercury filled speaker wires post - see also
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/hall/8701/Audio_BS.htm
and in case anybody still needs convincing
http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/632/v/3/sp/332683698431330268420
"*Harmonic Technology Fantasy
*In our test system Fantasy proved to be an extremely charming cable, it
is extremely fine and smooth while being able to resolve detail with
ease. Acoustic space is well defined and instrument tone is pretty good
too."
Excuse me while I gag. $900 for a par of 3m wires!
John
Take a look at this "Aromatherapy and Audiophools" which appeared in
Electronics World and Wireless World, October 1999. I thought it was so
funny I scanned it and stuck it on my web site.
Wonderful! Many thanks for that.
My favorite story in this department involved a visit to a friend who
was one of 'those people'.
So, to test his critical listening skills vis-a-vis the quality of his
multi-thousands of dollars in equipment,
we had him put on his favorite, best source, sit and listen while we
adjusted the controls on the set until he
said we had gotten the sound just perfect.
We switched back and forth, once we had the setting he thought sounded
best, to what he had argued was best.
The debate had been between whether the tone settings should be flat or
not. Didn't matter.
The setting he thought sounded far and away the best? Mono
We were never regaled with stories of his superb equipment or critical
listening again.
Tom Frank
At 10:03 PM -0700 4/19/07, John Pettitt wrote:
Excuse me while I gag. $900 for a par of 3m wires!
John
I actually have heard a difference in speaker cables once - albeit in
a system with six woofers wired in parallel. The resulting 2 ohm
impedance required a serious Phase Linear 800 watt amplifier and some
really big speaker cables to sound half-decent. These speakers,
driven by a 100W consumer Kenwood amp and/or 16 gauge zip cord,
sounded rather thin.
Of course, the solution was 12 gauge zip cord that cost 15 cents per foot.
--
--David Forbes, Tucson, AZ
http://www.cathodecorner.com/
Wow, got to get one!!!!
:-)
Rob K
PS just goes to show how stupid a lot of people are out there in ga ga land.
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To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] OT: Audiophoolery
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things
like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never
fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope
Audio, I feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one
of the peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies --
http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If
Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal
ports?"
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From: John Pettitt jpp@cloudview.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: Audiophoolery
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:03:22 -0700
Message-ID: 4628499A.7070206@cloudview.com
Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 02:21, Bruce Lane wrote:
Discussions involving audiphoolery, particularly where silly things like $500 knobs and "atomic" references for CD writing are involved, never fail to amuse me.
With that in mind, and given the current thread about Antelope Audio, I feel compelled to point out a link which, I think, illustrates one of the peaks to which "audiophools" will go to satisfy their obsessions.
http://www.monstercable.com/productDisplay.asp?pin=195
I invite all to have a good chuckle over this one. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
Take a look at this "Aromatherapy and Audiophools" which appeared in
Electronics World and Wireless World, October 1999. I thought it was so
funny I scanned it and stuck it on my web site.
I still remember the mercury filled speaker wires post - see also
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/hall/8701/Audio_BS.htm
and in case anybody still needs convincing
http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/632/v/3/sp/332683698431330268420
"*Harmonic Technology Fantasy
*In our test system Fantasy proved to be an extremely charming cable, it
is extremely fine and smooth while being able to resolve detail with
ease. Acoustic space is well defined and instrument tone is pretty good
too."
Excuse me while I gag. $900 for a par of 3m wires!
I'm just awaiting that the heavy water cables is showing up. $900 for a pair of
3m wires is a bargain! :P
Dead-sea saltwater would probably make better conductors thought.
Cheers,
Magnus