Yes it's an April Fool. but as we've seen many times this is an industry that long since moved beyond man's ability to parody it.Quite a cool article dated 1 April
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Basically your room will change into the Tardis, cool
Norddeutsche Bodenständigkeit?
LOL.
I sometimes got this with some “smoothing” applied directly to the graphs of datasets — which led me to smooth the datasets first (similar to oversampling, in fact)
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top secret , idea was sound and it sprang a new idea , of course , top secret
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HAR. That's quite a good trick!
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We are way deep in this thread, but it's been on my mind.
I divide my snake oil into different servings.
There is 'honest snake oil,' where a believer shares thoughts and crazy notions and theories and is trying to find the heart of the mysteries of sound and reproduction. They tense to freely share ideas and want to see what others think. I like them. That doesn't mean it's reality based, but we all have our foibles, and there can be people who are really nice and interesting in their view of the Universe.
These tweaks are in the, "I find putting pizza box tripods on my amplifiers, and pine cones on my speakers to enhance my enjoyment..." and let's listen together.
Who am I to want to hurt them or call them evil? They also usually like to talk about things other than themselves and enjoy a beverage with other people.
They also don't want my money. I'm good with that.
Then, there are the dirty low down lower than a snake belly types who try to monetize their fictions and insist everybody who doesn't fall for their shpiel must be deaf "debunkers" fixated on hiding the 'truth' that they are peddling.
Thems are beneath my contempt.
I have an audio buddy who is gullible that way, I think because he has some deeply implanted FOMO in his brain. I love him, but he loves tossing money at some of these guys and will never be dissuaded. I think it actually spurs him on if you try! After buying little bags of stuff to hook up to his speaker terminals, or whatever, his appreciation drifts and those things go into his cabinet of audio curiosities. But, he's happy being told what to hear - and this brings another rambling point for me: Some people like being told what to hear and the snake oil salesman seem to be really good at some sort of weird hypnotic skill that makes people belief their crap. Svengali-ism is fascinating. A for my friend, I fear that as he gets old, he's gonna fall into a trap set by a Nigerian prince, or one of those pop-up computer security scams and he will end up living in my basement.
Thanks, I feel better.
I divide my snake oil into different servings.
There is 'honest snake oil,' where a believer shares thoughts and crazy notions and theories and is trying to find the heart of the mysteries of sound and reproduction. They tense to freely share ideas and want to see what others think. I like them. That doesn't mean it's reality based, but we all have our foibles, and there can be people who are really nice and interesting in their view of the Universe.
These tweaks are in the, "I find putting pizza box tripods on my amplifiers, and pine cones on my speakers to enhance my enjoyment..." and let's listen together.
Who am I to want to hurt them or call them evil? They also usually like to talk about things other than themselves and enjoy a beverage with other people.
They also don't want my money. I'm good with that.
Then, there are the dirty low down lower than a snake belly types who try to monetize their fictions and insist everybody who doesn't fall for their shpiel must be deaf "debunkers" fixated on hiding the 'truth' that they are peddling.
Thems are beneath my contempt.
I have an audio buddy who is gullible that way, I think because he has some deeply implanted FOMO in his brain. I love him, but he loves tossing money at some of these guys and will never be dissuaded. I think it actually spurs him on if you try! After buying little bags of stuff to hook up to his speaker terminals, or whatever, his appreciation drifts and those things go into his cabinet of audio curiosities. But, he's happy being told what to hear - and this brings another rambling point for me: Some people like being told what to hear and the snake oil salesman seem to be really good at some sort of weird hypnotic skill that makes people belief their crap. Svengali-ism is fascinating. A for my friend, I fear that as he gets old, he's gonna fall into a trap set by a Nigerian prince, or one of those pop-up computer security scams and he will end up living in my basement.
Thanks, I feel better.
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That sounds like LSD trips.
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So it must be LSD traced snake oil... gosh, not even the snake oil is safe anymore.
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The clinical term for this is 'delusions'. In this case, they are of a particular type called "Bizarre delusions".
- "Delusions are false beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality that persist despite the evidence to the contrary; these beliefs are not ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture."
- "Bizarre delusions are clearly implausible and reflect beliefs that would be physically impossible."
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Maybe saying is it audible is a far better statement. If not, who cares? We can measure stuff all day long that is not audible. Even a sloppy blind test can prove it. Engineering level testing NOT required. This stuff has been settled decades ago by many engineers working for companies with serious money to invest in finding out the truth. Many audiophiles want to keep retesting the same old stuff decade after decade. Luckily most "real" testing has stopped as the science is settled. Oh well. That's a hobby for you, lots of speculation and not much based in reality. I always think of JJ and all his research. So many don't know about it that they ask the same questions over and over year after year.
What's lower than a snake's belly is whale dung at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. That's my benchmark for low. Politicians can often be found there.
195MHz? Clearly those clueless analog EEs has no idea what science on conductors actually are when they made my 4650MHz Ryzen CPU right?
And these AMD guys are only asking $150 for it, despite needing hundreds of billions of dollars of the most sophisticated manufacturing equipment known to man, so these guys are complete charities versus cable peddlers.
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Yes. There is delusion and ignorance on one side, and malice and exploitation on the other one. The first ones can be perhaps educated. The second ones are just fraudsters.
Not sure if this is snake oil yet...
Will tell you once I get them installed... but first I need to strengthen my flooring.
At only $US 456 per kilo they are a bargain.
I am told the Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) is also very high so thats a plus.
Will tell you once I get them installed... but first I need to strengthen my flooring.
At only $US 456 per kilo they are a bargain.
I am told the Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) is also very high so thats a plus.
I would venture that this is not necessarily snake oil. Pricey? Yes.
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That's not Mama Moya; that's Mama Mia! And You'll probably need one of these to have it delivered
