Extreme Snake Oil

[BeeKay]

In the case of alternative medicine, natural selection might eventually resolve the issue.

Yep. Let Darwin do his job. He is good at that.

 

[Speedskater]

The only impact that uncoiling the cables after shipping is:
It will undo the extremely small effect of cryoing the cables.

 

[IPunchCholla]

Yep. Let Darwin do his job. He is good at that.

Depends on definition of good. Evolution is excellent for local maximum, terrible at general maximum. If the variation that would allow a species to continue doesn’t exist, it goes extinct without regard to if ANY other species has that variation.

 

[egellings]

Like a different version of Alex Jones. Just for High-End purposes. About as useful as the real felon.

Overblown as they are, at least they do bring electricity to the devices they're used in. The, um, personality is as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

 

[Punter]

I have no words...

 

[egellings]

I s'poze; why not, hey? Look at the bragging rights you get.

 

[Mart68]

I have no words...

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Cable made out of giant tampons. It had to happen.

Especially good for those moments of exceptionally heavy musical flow.

 

[antcollinet]

I have no words...

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What's he done? Just pulled the intestine out of a T-Rex?

 

[Salt]

Do not need a T-Rex, an inflated human adult's one does the job ... (or simply pig based, look at Wurst).

 

[xray]

The need for larger diameter and to get it up off the floor certainly sounds like compensation for something.

 

[Ken1951]

I have no words...

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What.The.Actual.Hell?

 

[antcollinet]

What.The.Actual.Hell?

They are actually trolling. "How utterly ridiculous can we make this stuff until no-one buys it"

I suspect there is no limit.

 

[SIY]

Since this is, of course, not something the hospital could guarantee the patient left without a simple life saving, or at least prolonging, measure.)

A famous quote from Niven and Pournelle comes to mind.

edit: I see I'm about the fourth person to think of the obvious...

 

[Palladium]

It is BS, but what if someone buys one and is completely satisfied with it? It's like the food supplement industry selling unless pills, some of which could be harmful, since the FDA has no oversight over that industry. People buy the usually useless supplements and swear by them. Maybe, like the labeling requirement on supplements that requires them to state that the product does not cure any disease, a similar warning should be required on dubious audio products, such as exotic cables. The warning would read, in part, that the product is not scientifically proven to have any beneficial effect on the audio equipment or experience.

The thing I noticed with these snake oil consumers is facts are very secondary to their primary motive of waving of their $$$ dicks, either consciously or subconsciously.

 

[Roland68]

I have no words...

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However, the cables in the first picture were built at the customer's special request. After the customer used the cables on his system at a trade fair, customer demand was so high that the cables were included as standard in the range. Without advertising and despite the price of a luxury sedan.

And let's be honest, how many pieces of jewelry are sold in the world for much higher prices?

 

[Platypus20]

Yep. Let Darwin do his job. He is good at that.

Hopefully before they breed

 

[antcollinet]

And let's be honest, how many pieces of jewelry are sold in the world for much higher prices?

But they are sold only on the basis that they cost the earth, and that they sparkle.

 

[BeeKay]

But they are sold only on the basis that cost the earth, and that they sparkle.

While deBeers are shitting their paints looking at the progress artificial alternatives make, turning their crazy efforts to control the markets by shortening supply into a train wreck.

 

[Mart68]

However, the cables in the first picture were built at the customer's special request. After the customer used the cables on his system at a trade fair, customer demand was so high that the cables were included as standard in the range. Without advertising and despite the price of a luxury sedan.

And let's be honest, how many pieces of jewelry are sold in the world for much higher prices?

Jewellery isn't marketed as a (pretend) upgrade to a hi-fi system though.

 

[AdrianusG]

What.The.Actual.Hell?

It's quite possible that those cables weigh more than his speakers, by the looks of it