dCS Bartok Review

[ShiZo]

The fact that he actually purchased those or ted gave them to him are both red flags.

 

[frogmeat69]

" I ran a Synergistic Research Galileo USB cable"

Sorry, I stopped reading there. Do you know where you posting? Not the right place to advertise for the biggest rip offs in all of audio, aside from white van speakers.

They literally come with little tuning modules, peices of metal that slip into a piece of the cable (beyond strange) to change the sound signature

I just looked that cable up, and have now lost all faith in humanity.

 

[Zog]

" I ran a Synergistic Research Galileo USB cable"

From the website you will see an amazing feature set:

2nd Generation UEF Filter Wow. Nice!
SR Ground Plane technology Very Impressive
Spotify ... sounds like high resolution analog master tapes Cripes! I had to go and get this!

I have since tested the said Galileo USB cable and it does all that is claimed. And so much more:

1. It plugs itself in automatically - you just open the box. It is the Optisense Technology that does this.
2. The color of the braid changes according to the frequency of signal;
3. It adds up all the bits and does a checksum to let you know your transmission is bit perfect.
4. It can also be used as a necklace.
5. It refuses to play Diana Krall. (My favourite feature)

 

[FrantzM]

Can we just choose to ignore this thread from that point on? The more we post on and about it ... the more we encourage what is IMHO, trolling.

not one more electron would be spent by me on this. I’m off.

 

[ahofer]

“Ground plane technology”. In case your listening room is a tent?

 

[ahofer]

Hey @TwoTrack there is a LOT of money on offer here, for charity and perhaps for you. Are you going to take anyone up on it?

if you don’t, what should we assume about your confidence in your listening skills?

 

[BillG]

The fact that he actually purchased those or ted gave them to him are both red flags.

I had the pleasure of banning Ted from our streaming group some months ago after he attempted to run his confidence game on our members...

 

[digicidal]

From the website you will see an amazing feature set:

2nd Generation UEF Filter Wow. Nice!
SR Ground Plane technology Very Impressive
Spotify ... sounds like high resolution analog master tapes Cripes! I had to go and get this!

I have since tested the said Galileo USB cable and it does all that is claimed. And so much more:

1. It plugs itself in automatically - you just open the box. It is the Optisense Technology that does this.
2. The color of the braid changes according to the frequency of signal;
3. It adds up all the bits and does a checksum to let you know your transmission is bit perfect.
4. It can also be used as a necklace.
5. It refuses to play Diana Krall. (My favourite feature)

If you weren't joking - I would have already placed my order. In fact, all it would have to do is change it's braid color... that alone would get my dollars - if it actually passed data, that would just be a bonus!

I thought while we're on this topic... I'd throw in a bit of satirical prose in the form of a computer review:

The ByteMonster XL by BadAssSystems was impressive from the moment I removed it from the packaging. It came wrapped in a luxurious velvet bag, and was a sleek block of machined aluminum with powerful components inside. Naturally it had a CPU, MB, RAM, 3 GPUs and some cables... but enough about that. What really impressed me was the large, billet power button which had a strong tactile feedback when first powering it on. And the silence... I could hear my cat purring on the other side of the office, undisturbed by the digital monster I'd unleashed. My wife was passing by and asked me when I was going to turn it on - yes, it's that quiet!

When handling business tasks, no job was too much. Spreadsheets calculated with unimaginable aplomb even more accurately than I'd become accustomed to with my Mac Pro. Documents practically wrote themselves - I was saddened when I completed one, wishing there were a few more pages I could write. However, what really sets the ByteMonster XL apart from the competition is to be found in the gaming. Regardless of operating system, you are positive the baddies are coming from behind you and are physically present in the room! The colors are deeper, richer, and more dynamic than I've ever seen on my monitor. The action was more papable, and the sounds even more submersive and realistic. I noticed distinct improvements on both the HDMI and Display Port connections - this monster just dominated everything.

I didn't bother to run any benchmarks, nor will I bore you with the component specifications - it's just so impressively fast that no matter what you do on it... it will never break a sweat! It came with a very nice power cord, but naturally I used my own cables for this review... I already have them broken in after all. Regardless, I think a system like this deserves the best, so that's where I would seek improvements should you want any.

At $32,599 it's definitely not the cheapest way of updating your FB profile or arguing on the Internet with lesser humans... but I can easily say it's worth every penny of it.

 

[BillG]

I thought while we're on this topic... I'd throw in a bit of satirical prose in the form of a computer review:

Hahahaha! Any tech reviewer that published such a thing what get absolutely slaughtered by IT professionals. I wish audiophiles would do the same to industry reviewers...

 

[bunkbail]

The review almost reads like satire to me.

 

[Blumlein 88]

From the website you will see an amazing feature set:

2nd Generation UEF Filter Wow. Nice!
SR Ground Plane technology Very Impressive
Spotify ... sounds like high resolution analog master tapes Cripes! I had to go and get this!

I have since tested the said Galileo USB cable and it does all that is claimed. And so much more:

1. It plugs itself in automatically - you just open the box. It is the Optisense Technology that does this.
2. The color of the braid changes according to the frequency of signal;
3. It adds up all the bits and does a checksum to let you know your transmission is bit perfect.
4. It can also be used as a necklace.
5. It refuses to play Diana Krall. (My favourite feature)

Lovely review.

Listen up guys. You've possibly read the tremendous reviews of some of AQ's most expensive cables on Amazon. Especially their HDMI cables. Well guess what? Synergistic Research sells some items on Amazon. They mostly lack reviews. Seems a shame really.....that they lack reviews!

Just a sampling.
https://www.amazon.com/PowerCell-Po...1571120100&sprefix=synergysti,aps,165&sr=8-24

$1995 power conditioner. You could be the first to review. I nominate Zog.

https://www.amazon.com/Synergistic-...1571120100&sprefix=synergysti,aps,165&sr=8-23

A high frequency transducer speaker/room upgrade. Uncommon affordability from SR at only $299. Man if you buy one get it to Amir or Ray to measure its effects.

https://www.amazon.com/Synergistic-...1571120100&sprefix=synergysti,aps,165&sr=8-22
The ever popular Blue Quantum fuses. Only $149 a pop. Nary a review yet.

Quoting a snippet from the description:

• Today physicists understand electrons don’t flow at all but rather propagate in a wave of energy that moves along a conductor with a multitude of factors that alters this wave at the quantum level. To understand how electricity travels without electrons ever leaving their respective atoms it is helpful to consider the spectator ‘wave’ at a football match.

They reach full effectiveness after only 200-300 hrs of break in/burn in. Yet out of the box outperform prior models of the Black SR fuses. They tell you they are directional, but no where do I see that this only applies to DC. If you are using them in an AC fusing situation I wonder how that works? You won't be able to watch the wave like in a football match.

Please step up and review these products.

 

[Zog]

Just a sampling.
https://www.amazon.com/PowerCell-Power-Conditioner-Teslaplex-Duplexes/dp/B075ZB8ZKW/ref=sr_1_24?crid=2AGR0CDJEZJ8V&keywords=synergistic+research&qid=1571120100&sprefix=synergysti,aps,165&sr=8-24

$1995 power conditioner. You could be the first to review. I nominate Zog.

Challenge accepted sir! You are in luck as I already own this exceptional product. The feature set includes from the white paper (or is that the spiel? -sorry I am easily confused) and I paraphrase with my appreciation in italics and parenthesis)

• It is a non-currant limiting (Great! I hate currants - they cock-up my ketogenic diet)
• It is driven by performance. (Way to go!)
• Powered by an onboard, Swiss-made (Virgins to be sure!) power supply
• This Power Supply provides musical imagery (Holy crapucles! this has advanced power supply technology by 50 years.)
• This Power Supply provides holographic 3D realism unlike any other power conditioner (Yes! This really IS true - no other power conditioner provides 3D realism. And to go further I prophesy that no other power supply ever will.)
• Includes a power cord ($495 value). (This was the swinger for me. Wanna know a dirty little secret? I bought them all! $495 value add on - like yeah man! - sucks to all you losers who missed out!)

But wait there is more. There is an ultra secret technology involved. It is called 'Recall'. Recall is the way of the future. It works like this: In propagating the sign wave average technologies will lose electrons. So the audio signal is compromised. With Recall if any of the electrons get lost, or killed or missing in action or AWOL then Recall will actually go back in time and fetch the lazy little fuckers who could not bother turning up. Too good to be true? No, the red colour on the power conditioner actually proves the technology works.

 

[Thomas savage]

What a fucking dope you are.

You have received a ban for this explicit insult.

Such conduct is not tolerated here.

 

[digicidal]

You have received a ban for this explicit insult.
Such conduct is not tolerated here.

Be honest. It was because he used the singular and there's more than one dope on this forum, right?

Hahahaha! Any tech reviewer that published such a thing what get absolutely slaughtered by IT professionals. I wish audiophiles would do the same to industry reviewers...

For real... originally I started declaring components in my piece... then realized that would be like a reviewer cracking the case and discussing the SMC's... which isn't likely to happen in a subjective review. At least not unless they're sponsored by an exotic capacitor manufacturer or something.

 

[BDWoody]

What a fucking dope you are.

Uh oh... Somebody has a potty mouth. And so well thought out otherwise...

 

[BDWoody]

You have received a ban for this explicit insult.

Such conduct is not tolerated here.

Is that a new record? Banned on his second post?

 

[Thomas savage]

Be honest. It was because he used the singular and there's more than one dope on this forum, right?


For real... originally I started declaring components in my piece... then realized that would be like a reviewer cracking the case and discussing the SMC's... which isn't likely to happen in a subjective review. At least not unless they're sponsored by an exotic capacitor manufacturer or something.

Maybe he ment to say " your so fucking dope" as in your so cool great super dooper ...

Ah blast I can't ask him now ha ha

 

[graz_lag]

 

[AudioSceptic]

From the website you will see an amazing feature set:

2nd Generation UEF Filter Wow. Nice!
SR Ground Plane technology Very Impressive
Spotify ... sounds like high resolution analog master tapes Cripes! I had to go and get this!

I have since tested the said Galileo USB cable and it does all that is claimed. And so much more:

1. It plugs itself in automatically - you just open the box. It is the Optisense Technology that does this.
2. The color of the braid changes according to the frequency of signal;
3. It adds up all the bits and does a checksum to let you know your transmission is bit perfect.
4. It can also be used as a necklace.
5. It refuses to play Diana Krall. (My favourite feature)

A bargain at $3,000 for one metre! How could anyone resist?

 

[AudioSceptic]

I just looked that cable up, and have now lost all faith in humanity.

Hey, it's cheaper than Nordost's Valhalla USB cable!