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Extreme Snake Oil

Awesome idea!
If we price it at the low price of$4999.99 do we risk them not treating it seriously?

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That would be OK as long as it's just a starting price for the base offering. You should also offer an upgraded version for $19,999/ft with cryogenically treated 0.999999999999 pure copper and quantum immersion coating to stop the electrons from leaking into the dielectric (that is well known to destroy soundstage and cause darker darks to become greyish greys.)
 
That would be OK as long as it's just a starting price for the base offering. You should also offer an upgraded version for $19,999/ft with cryogenically treated 0.999999999999 pure copper and quantum immersion coating to stop the electrons from leaking into the dielectric (that is well known to destroy soundstage and cause darker darks to become greyish greys.)
I was thinking more along the lines of downloadable upgrades. Such as a Certificate of Exemption to remove the negative effects of Maxwell–Heaviside equations.
 
There was a general reluctance to accept that CD players could not be tweaked like turntables.

Now CD is mostly abandoned people are wanting to tweak their ethernet.

You gotta be able to tweak something!

Yes, audiophiles are going to audiophile.

The one major change I have seen in regard to this, was in Home Theater. Before HDMI, analog video cables were reviewed much like audio cables in the more subjective oriented Home Theatre magazines “deeper blacks, more lush color.” And most of the high-end cable companies were offering expensive video cables too.

One HDMI took over pretty much killed that off.

Not 100%. You still see companies offering expensive boutique HDMI cables. But reviews and videophile ravings about such cables are quite rare now.
 
I have a number of late 80s-early 90s bought CDs with green or black pen marks round the edges. There was supposed to be some benefit in laser light 'scatter' or some-such. Thank the Lord I'm out of that stuff now ;)
Back in the 90s I remember having a discussion with a friend where I was earnestly trying to come up with an explanation for why the green pen was a good idea. Fortunately sanity was restored a week or two later :)
 
$1k - $2k for midline "performance-oriented" cables.

TAS waxing lyrical word salads over more Shunyata snake oil:

Reads like every cable review, ever. They're totally interchangeable. They could just have copied a review of some other cable from 20 years ago instead of paying this bloke to write another one. No-one would notice. In fact, maybe they did?
 
Reads like every cable review, ever. They're totally interchangeable. They could just have copied a review of some other cable from 20 years ago instead of paying this bloke to write another one. No-one would notice. In fact, maybe they did?
Like an AI trained solely with audiofile stuff :D
 
Like an AI trained solely with audiofile stuff :D
A.I could easily take over these pin money gigs.

Cut and paste in the manufacturer's own blurb (which in most reviews, as with this one, is about fifty percent of the total text of the review) then have A.I write the rest.

I'm usually not much for AI but with things like this it's going to be total twaddle whether it's written by a human or an algorithm so I can't see that it matters.
 
A.I could easily take over these pin money gigs.

Cut and paste in the manufacturer's own blurb (which in most reviews, as with this one, is about fifty percent of the total text of the review) then have A.I write the rest.

I'm usually not much for AI but with things like this it's going to be total twaddle whether it's written by a human or an algorithm so I can't see that it matters.

The whole writing staff at TAS et al can silently be replaced by AI as they die off of natural causes .

Advertisers can upload products descriptions and the fairy tale technobabble they want to be quoted in the “test” , pay in a tiered levels for how positive the reviews should bee ,component of the years status is and optional fee .

The journal could then have web crawlers that suck up the latest trends from web forums Reddit etc so it follows trends and write “articles” about the latest fad .

It could also offer summaries as a service to advertisers so they know what’s the new worries in audiophile land are so they could “invent” suitable products to cure these .
:)
 
The whole writing staff at TAS et al can silently be replaced by AI as they die off of natural causes .

Advertisers can upload products descriptions and the fairy tale technobabble they want to be quoted in the “test” , pay in a tiered levels for how positive the reviews should bee ,component of the years status is and optional fee .

The journal could then have web crawlers that suck up the latest trends from web forums Reddit etc so it follows trends and write “articles” about the latest fad .

It could also offer summaries as a service to advertisers so they know what’s the new worries in audiophile land are so they could “invent” suitable products to cure these .
:)
You write in the subjunctive. How sure are you that you're not a little late?
 
The whole writing staff at TAS et al can silently be replaced by AI as they die off of natural causes .

Advertisers can upload products descriptions and the fairy tale technobabble they want to be quoted in the “test” , pay in a tiered levels for how positive the reviews should bee ,component of the years status is and optional fee .

The journal could then have web crawlers that suck up the latest trends from web forums Reddit etc so it follows trends and write “articles” about the latest fad .

It could also offer summaries as a service to advertisers so they know what’s the new worries in audiophile land are so they could “invent” suitable products to cure these .
:)
I like the idea. The whole thing could be totally automated, just pay the website fee each month and it takes care of itself, the advertisers just self-serve. They can even upload their own photos which saves you doing any of that too.

You create four or five fictional reviewer/gurus - a la 'Gorillaz' - each with a back story, and the A.I just randomly allocates each article or review to one of them.
 
Our friends at SR are always innovating. Love the "Multi-stage Quantum tunnel treatment" -- how cool is that???

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Who wouldn't spend $13k on a grounding device like this?

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And it can generate four harmonics of Earth's Schumann Resonance? With four color LEDs? Take my money now!

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The trick is to let someone else do all the tweaks and then let them sell it when they upgrade. I just picked up a pair of great speakers with
2K of upgraded internal wire, bracing, @Soundcoat, caps, inductors, resistors, out-riggers, drivers, waveguides, speaker terminals, an option
to use a First Watt active XO, and some spendy external speaker cables. I paid less than 450.00 USD which is 1/4 what they sold for new,
with ZERO upgrades. As far as snake oil, I got the empty bottle.

Regards
 
Our friends at SR are always innovating. Love the "Multi-stage Quantum tunnel treatment" -- how cool is that???

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Who wouldn't spend $13k on a grounding device like this?

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And it can generate four harmonics of Earth's Schumann Resonance? With four color LEDs? Take my money now!

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They say ‘multi stage quantum tunnels’ but how many? 3 is multi stage, but 6 is twice as good. I wouldn’t buy unless it was at least 6 :cool:
 
6 is for the common people. You know Range Rover and even below. 12 is what you should go for.
 
Yes, audiophiles are going to audiophile.

The one major change I have seen in regard to this, was in Home Theater. Before HDMI, analog video cables were reviewed much like audio cables in the more subjective oriented Home Theatre magazines “deeper blacks, more lush color.” And most of the high-end cable companies were offering expensive video cables too.

One HDMI took over pretty much killed that off.

Not 100%. You still see companies offering expensive boutique HDMI cables. But reviews and videophile ravings about such cables are quite rare now.
When HDMI first took over, they were the same with there hdmi cables. It took a year or two for it to be snuffed out.
There are still a few out there as you say. Most of which aren’t certified
 
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