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Maybe a special “woo woo” forum section
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There is at least one very long Snake Oil thread that would be a good ghetto for them
Some very trollish behavior. Repetitive an really questionable subjects.
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Whenever I see Ansuz , I see it as an ad for donation.
Like the quoted ad, asking for $840 donation, and they will give you that nice looking RCA connector as a token of appreciation
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There are things, such as common-mode chokes, that actually use the idea of countering noise and transients using inductors. But by no stretch of imagination do they have anything to do with Tesla coils and how they operate.
You are on the internet, the largest and most accessible collection of knowledge in history. I suggest it requires an extreme amount of laziness and gullibilty to not do at least a tiny bit of research before polluting a scientific forum with this nonsense. No offense intended...
You are on the internet, the largest and most accessible collection of knowledge in history. I suggest it requires an extreme amount of laziness and gullibilty to not do at least a tiny bit of research before polluting a scientific forum with this nonsense. No offense intended...
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Well actually no
Why? Exactly because it's a science based forum
And there are experts here that their opinion I appreciate much more than any Google search
So I don't see what's wrong here
There are experts here. They get drowned out by all of the random opinions when you solicit information in such a random and provocative format.
That ASR is a science based forum doesn’t prevent many of the answers you get using this method from being scattershot and uncritical.
Repeating the same question over and over, not participating in the discussion (and no, answering posts with nothing but more marketing pictures isn't participation
), it's clear you aren't learning much using this method.Apologies for resurrecting this somewhat controversial thread but I wanted to share my recent experience and get members' thoughts on it. I went to a recent demo hosted by Audio Group Denmark where a rep went through a range of their products. The system was a basic DAC-streamer-amp with floor standing speakers. It started by sounding quite poor and I was ready to walk. But, by seemingly adding various of their Anzus "noise reduction" products as listed in the posts above, I have to say the system started to sound pretty nice. Now, I like to think I can spot a "Barker" when I see one! And I fully appreciate that from an EE point of view their Anzus products suggest first rate snake oil. So by adding in these snake oil products, how are they able to improve the SQ of their basic system? I did hear an SQ improvement as did all nine of the other audience members in the demo and we were all pretty skeptical. So what's going on? Mass delusion or a conjuring trick? To be clear I am not advocating the brand, just wondering what is at play as I really resent their outrageous pricing and dumbed down marketing. Thanks in advance of any thoughts.
Turned up the volume, that is the traditional method.
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No it wasn't as blatant as that! We were measuring room sound level with a phone app and the volume setting of the amp was fixed and on display. The SQ "improvement" was heard in terms of imaging, resolution, realism, etc. All the usual hifi tropes. But it was a noticeable effect for everyone regardless of where they were sitting - I wish it wasn't!
More recently another US snake oil company company were using a disc player to demonstrate their ‘upgrades’ Mark Waldrep of AIX noticed that the same track wasn’t being used for each demonstration it was the same tune but each iteration had been burned a little louder.
Much more ingenious.
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Much more ingenious.
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No the effect was not down to loudness. They were streaming from Qobuz so same tracks being used each time. Something else more subtle was at play which is why I am reaching out to this illustrious group.
Mass hysteria then, group psychology is really interesting.
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Barkers come in many forms. Hard to spot. Looks like you and nine other people failed to recognize the audio carnival. Barker technique is effective when working groups of people, causes a lack of criticality and group hysteria. The presence of a difference isn't even necessary, and the trick works on people who are experts, like the Sapphire Group:
Audio Listening Test That Fooled the Hollywood Sapphire Group
Some of the most highly trained audiophiles in the industry were asked to do a blind “A-B” listening comparison test of two audio circuits. Were they able to hear a difference, or were they fooled?
www.audioholics.com
As always with products like these: they work because they do work.
Microphones are way more sensitive than our ears, and are not subject to being fooled by sales-people (who often fully believe that they too hear these differences). If you had a mic and measured you would have found no difference in sound due to the Anzus technologies.
What does that mean?As always with products like these: they work because they do work.
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