Someone at CAF2025 has a 'get them while they are young' room and 'activity book' to bring young folks into the hobby. Someone
please stop by and see what sort of material is being provided to youths to grow the audiophile hobby.
This CAF2025 room is promoted on the Audiogon and What's Best forums, so I kinda doubt anything about honesty, math and measurements will be mentioned, but you never know. For some reason, the word 'grooming' now roams around my brain....
Please post photos of the activity book. And the 'Certified Audiophile-in-Training' badge, of course. I am really curious as to what sort of information they provide to the age group I educated professionally for 31 years.
I'll go ahead and paste
the Audiogon post below (MODS - let me know if I that's a no-no). All bold/italics as in original post.
"Every year, we gather at audio shows surrounded by extraordinary sound systems, passion, and artistry. Yet when I look around, I see mostly adults, and realize how rare it is to see a child or teenager experiencing this world with us.
If our goal is to keep music appreciation and high-fidelity listening alive, we have to open the door to the next generation. These shows can be more than extravagant displays of equipment; they can be classrooms of curiosity, places where parents and grandparents pass on what made them fall in love with sound in the first place.
That is why this year at
Capital Audiofest 2025 (Room 726), I am launching
Passport to Sound™, a free educational activity book designed for ages 8–16. It turns the show into a hands-on exploration of music and audio discovery. Kids complete fun listening challenges, learn how systems work, and earn their
Certified Audiophile-in-Training badge.
I invite every exhibitor and attendee to join this movement to help make audio shows inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring for young listeners.
Bring your children or grandchildren. Let them see, hear, and feel what real sound is like.
If you are attending the CAF show, I would love for you to stop by and talk with me in
Room 726. We need to come together as a community and collaborate to make this even better for the future.
Because if we want this hobby to have a future, we have to share it.
(Full disclosure: I am a family member of an exhibitor, but this initiative is independent and educational.)"
Addendum:
Passport to Sound™ is headquartered in a cable manufacturer's room, m101 cables.
Their website explains their cable "technology" (I added bold and red to what they know is "unambiguous"):
"Engineered for MHz — where audio electronics actually operate
Your music lives between
20 Hz and 20 kHz.
But the electronics that reproduce it operate far beyond that range — deep into the
MHz domain.
Inside your components, every stage interacts at higher frequencies:
Where MHz directly matters
- DAC master clocks: 10–50 MHz
- Digital streamers and processors: MHz domain
- Switching power supplies: 50–500 kHz with harmonics extending into MHz
Where MHz exists internally
- Op-amp circuits: 10–100 MHz bandwidth
- Feedback networks: operate in MHz even when the audio signal doesn’t
- Rectifier switching: produces MHz harmonics
The audible signal doesn’t reach those frequencies, but the systems that shape it do.
That is where M101 focuses its engineering.
Boundary Condition Stabilizer (BCS)
Conventional cables are built for
50/60 Hz power delivery.
We design for the
MHz range, where component behavior is actually defined.
Our patented
Boundary Condition Stabilizer (BCS) platform is engineered to control electromagnetic boundaries at the cable-to-component interface — the point where most signal instability begins.
BCS modifies how fields behave in this critical region, reducing unwanted reflections and improving energy transfer in the MHz domain — the same range where clocks, converters, and amplifiers interact.
What We Measure
Three independent experimental methods confirm that BCS creates measurable, reproducible physical differences:
- RF transmission characteristics — improved energy transfer and reduced loss at MHz frequencies.
- Electromagnetic field mapping — visibly altered field structure around the cable and connector boundary.
- Precision instrumentation response — consistent, quantifiable changes in electronic performance metrics.
All measurements were performed under controlled laboratory conditions with less than
2 % variance.
Honest Engineering
We measure the effects clearly.
The exact mechanism connecting MHz-domain optimization to audible improvements is still being explored — as it is throughout the cable industry.
What we know is unambiguous:
- Audio electronics operate in the MHz range.
- Boundary conditions influence their stability and precision.
- BCS directly controls those boundaries.
The data show physical change.
Listeners report audible benefits.
Your system — and your ears — decide how it matters to you.
A
peer-reviewed paper detailing the methodology and results is currently in preparation.
Once published, the full dataset and analysis will be available here.
Because high fidelity should be experienced, not marketed.
Tested, not claimed. Heard, not hyped."
The entire premise is tenuous. There are legions of young audiophiles. They buy headphones and the pricey party boxes, which actually sound pretty good.
Now I really wanna see how they train "junior audiophiles".... I may have to start a thread on this....
