Audiophoolery humour thread

[mhardy6647]

ahem. If we're going there...

I actually have that 45 -- from my father's broadcast radio days.

 

[ahofer]

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[egellings]

I especially like this: "In a reflective room we literally burn more calories just listening than we do in a dampened room."

This kind of thinking is actually not rare, despite it being utterly false. One quote I've never forgotten from a food science course: "The cleaning woman dusting one shelf of a genius professor's bookcase for three minutes burns far more calories than the great scholar who thinks great thoughts for eight hours."

I've had lots of people refuse to believe that, but it's true.

Only reason you might burn more calories in a reflective room is that if you are cringing on the loud parts of the music, that little bit of muscle tightening would consume a miniscule additional number of calories. It's tiny, though, and I wouldn't rely on it for a new weight loss technique.

 

[Audiofire]

Hard to take this brand seriously when it highlights the most ridiculous part of What Hi-fi's review:

Timing has always been one of the Fono Mini A2D’s defining talents - it delivers tracks with zest and enthusiasm without skipping a beat, and this latest revisiting only confirms it is yet to be bettered by its rivals.

Rega | Fono Mini A2D Phono Pre-amplifier with USB Interface

A high-quality phono pre-amplifier for use with any moving magnet cartridge. The addition of a USB interface allows you to transfer vinyl to your PC. Audio hi-fi made in England.

www.rega.co.uk

 

[MatrixS2000]

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[voodooless]

View attachment 451967

Everyone knows that you cannot have a sudden jump in cable thickness . The electrons get confused and the dark black backgrounds go to waste. What a shame

 

[mhardy6647]

Everyone knows that you cannot have a sudden jump in cable thickness . The electrons get confused and the dark black backgrounds go to waste. What a shame

That's right!
Those excess electrons slam into the constriction... there's Bremsstrahlung... Cerenkov radiation... itty-bitty black holes... not a pretty sight.
No wonder the transients get smeared.
No worries, though, QRONO'll straighten all that out*!


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* or is it ODORONO? I get confused...

 

[TankTop]

View attachment 451967

I glanced at the photo before zooming in and I was wondering what that frog was

 

[Sal1950]

That's right!
Those excess electrons slam into the constriction... there's Bremsstrahlung... Cerenkov radiation... itty-bitty black holes... not a pretty sight.
No wonder the transients get smeared.
No worries, though, QRONO'll straighten all that out*!


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* or is it ODORONO? I get confused...
View attachment 451979

OMG, there went my lunch.

 

[mhardy6647]

Yeah -- sorry about that.
Perhaps I should've put that vintage photo of Big T (from the cover of The Who Sell Out, arguably their best pre-Tommy album*) inside 'spoiler' tags.

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* which, admittedly, ain't saying much.
(there is some pretty good stuff on Sell Out, though)

 

[Ropeburn]

Everyone knows that you cannot have a sudden jump in cable thickness . The electrons get confused and the dark black backgrounds go to waste. What a shame

But but using the good old water in a pipe analogy, if electrons in a thick wire enter a thin part, they significantly speed up, which surely must help with bass speed something something! Make it really thin wire, and you get super speedy bass.

 

[Shorty]

Yeah -- sorry about that.
Perhaps I should've put that vintage photo of Big T (from the cover of The Who Sell Out, arguably their best pre-Tommy album*) inside 'spoiler' tags.

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* which, admittedly, ain't saying much.
(there is some pretty good stuff on Sell Out, though)

“Mary-Ann with the shaky hand”

 

[mhardy6647]

“Mary-Ann with the shaky hand”

I was thinking - predominantly - of Tattoo, which I think is a very good song -- with the possible exception of the rooty-toot-toot lyrics near the end.

 

[mhardy6647]

But but using the good old water in a pipe analogy, if electrons in a thick wire enter a thin part, they significantly speed up, which surely must help with bass speed something something! Make it really thin wire, and you get super speedy bass.

e.g., supersonic sub-bass -- the mind boggles.

 

[MatrixS2000]

But but using the good old water in a pipe analogy, if electrons in a thick wire enter a thin part, they significantly speed up, which surely must help with bass speed something something! Make it really thin wire, and you get super speedy bass.

Don’t forget where the wire gauge changes is an electron congestion point… so collisions must happen, like in particle accelerator, so the bass must go boom.

 

[Ropeburn]

Don’t forget where the wire gauge changes is an electron congestion point… so collisions must happen, like in particle accelerator, so the bass must go boom.

Yes. And any concerns about quality degradation are moot: the bigger the bass, the less any eventual additional noise matters.

 

[Ropeburn]

e.g., supersonic sub-bass -- the mind boggles.

If you take the effect to the extreme, this happens:

 

[Audiofire]

Hmm, supersonic electrons - now that's what I call science!

 

[Ropeburn]

Hmm, supersonic electrons - now that's what I call science!

If only we had a way of making electrons move near lightspeed... imagine the incredible bass!

 

[Audiofire]

If only we had a way of making electrons move near lightspeed... imagine the incredible bass!

No, quantum entanglement is the latest trend in audiophoolery, at least audiophools are trying to wrap their minds around it (and failing quite miserably)!