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Extreme Snake Oil
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HedgeHog
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I think Christmas ornaments would be offended with that...lol. They are supposed to be room tuning devices. It was a free trial so I took it. Made measurements, saw no difference. Heard no difference.
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Vibratron, Gravitron, Magnetron, and Bass Station: the sci-fi names alone are enough to raise eyebrows. But when you add in the fantastic appearance of the resonating bowls, and the claims that they can tune your listening room and ameliorate most commonly encountered speaker-room interactions...
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Now that I think about which company made it, I should have known better.
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It is made by synergistic research, a well known and long term scammer, rip off artist and cheater of people in audio products. They have a reputation as being one of the top few companies in selling massive amounts of rip off, senseless, and worthless gear. It is a shame they are still in business.
DSJR
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There's a UK forum where the owner swears by stuff like this, starting with the fuses. I've rarely ventured back, as the forum regulars mostly seem to follow a similar trend and I'd rather walk away in these more recent days than offer a challenge. They can afford to and they obviously love playing with the gear, so there ya go
There used to be a pet dealer who preyed on them and others, making himself out to be an expert, always with a fantastic tweak or two in his goodie box on customer visits.
All U.K. forums swear by this stuff, it’s the usual story no technical knowledge, seemingly no desire to learn any and forty plus years of at best misinformation. ( lies ).
It’s a pity once upon a time contrary opinions were allowed but objective posters were gradually driven out, Google doesn’t like discord I guess and well revenue .
Keith
It’s a pity once upon a time contrary opinions were allowed but objective posters were gradually driven out, Google doesn’t like discord I guess and well revenue .
Keith
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That'll be the same place that reckoned ultimate digital replay required a spend of at least ten grand?There's a UK forum where the owner swears by stuff like this, starting with the fuses. I've rarely ventured back, as the forum regulars mostly seem to follow a similar trend and I'd rather walk away in these more recent days than offer a challenge. They can afford to and they obviously love playing with the gear, so there ya go
Although in fairness there's forums where they'd quote you ten times that.
That much better than taking my garden refuse to the recycling center . I encase in a ply box and sells it for 20k neat
Charge a premium for it being organicThat much better than taking my garden refuse to the recycling center . I encase in a ply box and sells it for 20k neat
This high-end music streamer aims to deliver "unparalleled" natural digital sound
German brand MBL wants to eliminate sonic distortion from your music
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Even companys that once where deeply rooted in science and solid products, have realized that stupidity of the average customer has increased some 100% over the last decades. This while basic education, the will to learn solid facts and drawing a clean line between right and wrong have vanished.
So they adapt to the wealthy idiot and serve them the sensation he deserves. Just clean quality and facts bore the modern customer, he wants something extraordinary, impossible and mystic.
It is like selling goods to primitives in the jungle, that never have seen a mirror or camera before. You can not get them with facts, physics and science, you have to stage yourself as the mighty medicine man, making all other medicine men look powerless. That is what we have today as the new, modern customer, primitives not knowing how anything works, tapping on their i-phones and driving around in electric cars.
So they adapt to the wealthy idiot and serve them the sensation he deserves. Just clean quality and facts bore the modern customer, he wants something extraordinary, impossible and mystic.
It is like selling goods to primitives in the jungle, that never have seen a mirror or camera before. You can not get them with facts, physics and science, you have to stage yourself as the mighty medicine man, making all other medicine men look powerless. That is what we have today as the new, modern customer, primitives not knowing how anything works, tapping on their i-phones and driving around in electric cars.
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Killingbeans
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Yeah, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke's third law)
That's probably why so many audio companies try to make a lot of the aspects of audio reproduction seem way more advanced than they really are. As long as the customer believe it's magic, they'll buy just about anything.
Sadly, Audio snake-oil was thriving long before smartphones came along. I don't think people have become less critically thinking. To me it just seems like the part of the industy, that focuses on exploiting loopholes in the human psyche, has become more streamlined and organized. Doesn't help that the internet has made it extremely easy to make BS spread like wildfire.
That's probably why so many audio companies try to make a lot of the aspects of audio reproduction seem way more advanced than they really are. As long as the customer believe it's magic, they'll buy just about anything.
Sadly, Audio snake-oil was thriving long before smartphones came along. I don't think people have become less critically thinking. To me it just seems like the part of the industy, that focuses on exploiting loopholes in the human psyche, has become more streamlined and organized. Doesn't help that the internet has made it extremely easy to make BS spread like wildfire.
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That is one our society's biggest problem. So much BS on the internet that people believe anything. Then it is parroted by those ignorant people and it spreads around the net as "fact", The more it is restated the more it is an undisputed fact! We are all doomed by stupidity. To say it in a much nicer way, we are led astray by people who don't know any better.
If you got a decend life, a nice family and a good jod, you probaply do not find interest and time making videos of your self doing stupid things, telling stupid things or promoting stupid stuff. So what we find on the net, in many cases, are the products of frustrated, unsuccessful people that try to convince others from things they don't belive in by them selves and idiots talking about things they don't understand. The bad thing is, they meet the nerve of other even more frustrated, unsuccessful idiots . Those have allways been an easily to manipulate mass. I better stop here.
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Good ol' BS! There's a lot of it about. At least I never have to worry about a shortage of it.
It use to be that one had to put up significant money and/or effort in order to be in a position to publish or disseminate information. The money and effort may have been expended getting education, experience and credentials for a specific field. Now any idiot with access to an internet connection can push their wacko ideas about any subject to the masses in 30 seconds.
I fail to see the problem with this. You also get great content that would have never reached you when there was expense and gatekeeping.
Separating the wheat from the chaff is on you. "Nobody needs 28 brands of shampoo," said one particular would-be dictator. Thank you, I prefer having ME be able to make the choices.
edit: and having costs and gatekeeping did not exactly prevent the massive spread of stupidity. See: Jean Hiraga, Absolute Sound...
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Yes, we have access to a broader spectrum of ideas now and that's great for those who are capable of "separating the wheat from the chaff". The problem is not everyone can do that and some simply don't want to do that. Many of those people have the opportunity to vote, teach, govern, give advice, etc.
Having 28 brands of shampoo is only good if the ingredient labels don't lie.
Besides the gatekeeping which had its merit when flat earthers wrote the local paper about chemtrials or vaccines, no one else got contaminated by the meme . As these ramblings went to the bin ( mostly) if not the damage was limited as the spread was not worldwide.
There is was not much cross communication at the lunatic fringe you had to subscribe to Fortean times or absolute sound .
Every village had its idiot that was it , but nowadays the village idiots communicate on the net and fester .
There simply no end and no bottom.
With only the written word on paper there was quantitative limit of the bs , now it costs nothing and the treashold is very low ?
There is was not much cross communication at the lunatic fringe you had to subscribe to Fortean times or absolute sound .
Every village had its idiot that was it , but nowadays the village idiots communicate on the net and fester .
There simply no end and no bottom.
With only the written word on paper there was quantitative limit of the bs , now it costs nothing and the treashold is very low ?
I think the angle is that there was skin in the game to espousing your perspective. It took real effort and investment to get it out there... Whereas now, someone can wax poetic over crap as quickly and easily as we've typed these words to each other.
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