This thread has made my jaw drop in utter disbelief a few times, cable elevators marketing BS is exquisitely crafted marketing vomit on par with the bowl resonators from a buddhist temple. I can't believe there are people that buy into this stuff.
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Sounds more like a Steven Wright line to me...
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Gallagher was more into smashing foodstuffs with his Sledge-O-Matic.
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It wasn't Steven Wright, who (and y'all probably won't be surprised by this) is one of my very most favoritest of all.
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In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 'Cut it out.'
It was a someone with a much more manic personality. I really do believe it was very early Gallagher (it was a long time ago).
EDIT: Steven Wright's style is more evocative of Eeyore on Quāāludes, I'd opine.
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You're right... Or these results are wrong... Or Gallagher stole it from Steven...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Don...k.&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Maybe they string their guitars with power cords.Over on audiogon they bestow magical properties on power cords by calling them power chords. They must have heard of this term in a review of some classic rock band
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Thanks!
You know -- and I am not being facetious! -- I never thought of googling it!
I do like the joke, though, no matter where it came from.
as an aside: Steven Wright is a national treasure, in my book -- but, then again, I was a
Hmmm... probably time to get back to the serious business of making fun of audiophiles!
I would posit that, on the average, no one was better at it than Charles Rodrigues (speaking of Bay Staters).
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Quite cheap, Ansuz make a $40k power cord. Not joking, they actually charge that. But then you get almost 10 feet of cable...
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Swing and a miss. Those are all real.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussi...endgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=website
in which one can hear a difference between cables....
in which one can hear a difference between cables....
Poor fellow confused if his cables will only sound right playing one genre of music.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/burn-in-the-age-old-question-cables-components-and-speakers
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/burn-in-the-age-old-question-cables-components-and-speakers
I dunno, he should try undoing that loop
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So basically... a "CD demagnetizer", except they're not even claiming that it changes any real physical properties at all? Well, at least their claims cannot be refuted as such, thanks to placebo effect and expectation bias.
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Actually, the manufacturer makes this silly claim (my translation): "CD, DVD and bluray discs are made of polycarbonate, which has dipole groups that can be polarized, which affects the refractive index, ie an optical property that affects the disc so that it becomes easier to read for record players with the obvious sound improvement that occurs."
Sadly enough, about five local esoteric hifi/audiophoolery retailers carry this junk, sells at about USD 150.
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