Extreme Snake Oil

[David Harper]

This place is such a breath of fresh air compared to some other popular sites where to question snake oil subjects one to public derision.

that's why I quit every other audiophile forum.

 

[audio2design]

Gee, I haven’t seen so many logical fallacies in one place since I left Kalamazoo.

Have you read any of your own posts? You still claiming to be a physicist? Rocket scientist? It was hard to keep up.

 

[SIY]

Have you read any of your own posts? You still claiming to be a physicist? Rocket scientist? It was hard to keep up.

As Yoda would say, "Feed it you mustn't."

 

[Katji]

The problem I have with replying to these is that I am forced to evade mentioning the obvious.

 

[pads]

If anything Mr. Kait is solid entertainment value, his teleportation, little clocks, dots and crystal tweaks are legend. The man is a master troll.

 

[Geoffkait]

Aerospace Engineering, the first class in AE at Virginia right around Kennedy’s announcement of US space program - theoretical propulsion, fluid mechanics, indeterminate structures, statistical thermodynamics, atomic physics, quantum mechanics came later. It’s really not that difficult.

 

[pads]

 

[egellings]

I read reviews of audiophool products just for laffs[sic] and entertainment. What surprises me is that people can actually believe that stuff. Likely, they've made audio into some kind of a religion, where beliefs rule.

 

[Katji]

How dare you insult one of our 45 sponsors that pay to put tiled adverts littered upon our free and open discussion forum slash review site!

Every time I go to one of those sites, I just keep thinking to myself how distasteful it all really is.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if we had ads like that here. ...I suppose some of the advertisers would just stop advertising here.

 

[Geoffkait]

Geoffkait said:
Gee, I haven’t seen so many logical fallacies in one place since I left Kalamazoo.

Audio2design replied,
Have you read any of your own posts? You still claiming to be a physicist? Rocket scientist? It was hard to keep up.

>>>I don’t doubt that it was hard for you to keep up.

 

[audio2design]

Oh Geoff, we have had this dance before. It is so easy to get you riled up. This ain't Audiogon. Actual engineers and physicists here, with advanced degrees and practical experience in this field. It won't be just me calling you out, but I am up to the task. They see your educational claims and recognize it as typical Bachelor level engineering courses. They won't find any papers authored by you (high school does not count), and certainly no contributions to audio or electronics. To quote Shania Twain, "that don't impress me much". You are not even a rocket scientist, though you have attempted to play one on the internet.

 

[Katji]

You could start with learning [basic thing] how to quote replies, before talking about "hard to keep up."

 

[Mart68]

Yes and no, as I said some recording studios do better than others. Moment! and Water Lilly spring to mind, I’m 100% sure other studios are also interested in these sorts of things, you know, how to get the best sound. I also suspect the main problems in sound generally at at home, there‘s much to be done.

So in that case you only need all this crazy crap if you want to get the best out of the recordings made in a handful of studios. So with anything recorded anywhere else, or recorded there before they put all the crazy crap in, then the replay system is fine without it too?

Even if it were true I don't see that it's worth going to the time or the expense just for that.

 

[AdamG]

It would be interesting to see what would happen if we had ads like that here. ...I suppose some of the advertisers would just stop advertising here.

We don’t have adds here. None, as in Zero, Nada, nilch.

 

[egellings]

What about subtracts?

 

[David Harper]

Geoff isn't all bad. He was a source of great entertainment for me in his prolonged antagonism against a guy who is infinitely more annoying. The guy is Michael Green. A guy who is more full of it than anyone I've ever experienced in my life. No exaggeration. You would have to read the stereophile forums of 10-20 years ago to understand just how full of it this guy is.

 

[FrantzM]

Several years ago a person who used to be on a forum he and I frequented ( He went to found another forum who is devoted to the Highest End Audio ) maintained that when he moved his cables it would take weeks for the system to settle and, of course, he could hear the differences...

 

[FrantzM]

Geoff isn't all bad. He was a source of great entertainment for me in his prolonged antagonism against a guy who is infinitely more annoying. The guy is Michael Green. A guy who is more full of it than anyone I've ever experienced in my life. No exaggeration. You would have to read the Stereophile forums of 10-20 years ago to understand just how full of it this guy is.

Michael Green with the Fabio hair? I remember him ... He had a line of stands...

 

[audio2design]

Michael Green with the Fabio hair? I remember him ... He had a line of stands...

Is that the Maple Audio guy?

Audio Cable vendors today are claiming you need to let the cables sit for a week for best sound. Just one more excuse to not be able to properly test them.

 

[MaxBuck]

Aerospace Engineering, the first class in AE at Virginia right around Kennedy’s announcement of US space program - theoretical propulsion, fluid mechanics, indeterminate structures, statistical thermodynamics, atomic physics, quantum mechanics came later. It’s really not that difficult.

Good grief, you're even older than I am. And you still do this stuff?