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Extreme Snake Oil

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Like any other claimant, they can still win me over with proper evidence that their stuff works better. I guess I'll be waiting a long time, though.
Don't hold your breath.
 

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Two wrongs don't make a right but then this is the wacky world of audiophilia where the laws of physics are suspended and, like in 'Stingray', anything can happen in the next half hour.
But remember, 3 lefts do make a right! Totally scientific.
 

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A Gedankenexperiment: If one installs the fuse backwards and also installs one's one-way interconnect(s) backwards, is the net result silence?
Define 'silence'! Don't go to the forest and try to prove to me what happens when a tree falls...:facepalm:
Now how does that work for AC fuses?
AC, DC, LGBQTIA++: none of that matters. It should work for all the same!
 

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Two wrongs don't make a right but then this is the wacky world of audiophilia where the laws of physics are suspended and, like in 'Stingray', anything can happen in the next half hour.
Stingray...?!?

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Saw this Carver HR-895 in front walkway of some apartments.
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It's been there over the weekend and still no takers! Perhaps because it weighs ~40 pounds.
Was Bob Carver the best (snake oil?) salesman of his era (although, he offered people what (he thought) they wanted)?
 

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A 50000 Euro DAC.
I asked if they would kindly provide me with some measurement results.
I have now from my sarcasm.
I was taken seriously and sent a measurement protocol.

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If I were a millionaire, I would probably spend a few hundred thousand euros to buy hifi from this company. I am serious about that.
 

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Is that supposed to be impressive?
it is as good as it gets. At this level you are limited by the measurement instruments
luxury product + top end craftmanship + virtually perfect measurements mean very high price. this is not a snake oil. but you can be sure audiophiles will swear how much this improves the sound
 
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it is as good as it gets.
Are we looking at the same plots? The one I'm seeing shows a second harmonic at about -110 dB with third and fourth not far below. That's quite far from "as good as it gets." The frequency response also starts dropping off already at 10 kHz. It's probably audibly indistinguishable from any other reasonable DAC, but those figures are not in any way impressive.
 

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Sure, my E50 Dac kills this 50 000 € baby.
Still, I'm impressed that they use analyzers...
 

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Saw this Carver HR-895 in front walkway of some apartments.
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It's been there over the weekend and still no takers! Perhaps because it weighs ~40 pounds.
Was Bob Carver the best (snake oil?) salesman of his era (although, he offered people what (he thought) they wanted)?
I don't recall him as snake oil. He was pretty honest about what he was selling.
 

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Bob Carver wasn't shy about thinking outside the box. Most of his designs were competitive with other equipment of the day. (In those days, .1% THD at rated power was considered "decent" - better than the analog sources that dominated the marketplace.) A lot of folks with low efficiency speakers like the AR's, but not a lot of money, opted for Carver amps to provide enough horsepower for them. The Carver M400 amps literally sold themselves.
 

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How about a £4200 fuse?


''Much of this may sound outrageous, but only to those who have not had the chance to hear it for themselves.''
 

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How about a £4200 fuse?


''Much of this may sound outrageous, but only to those who have not had the chance to hear it for themselves.''


With more than 22 years of research into what they call 'Bottle Neck Distortion'

And everyone else who's not dead from the neck up calls "Huh???"
 

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And everyone else who's not dead from the neck up calls "Huh???"
read the linked review, it's unintentionally hilarious. I'd post a few gems but it won't let me copy and paste. The 'designer' appears to be making 'scientific breakthroughs' every couple of months, resulting in more and more expensive fuses, each better than the last. It's risible.
 

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Not enough. Needs more details about who your friends and family are and other random facts about your career in business administration and real estate.
Have you tried changing the cables inside the speakers and the amps or these cables don't matter?
I tried to include the replied to post but I am late to the game, thinking it was deleted. That said @BALKAN_RAKIA - right on point in your reply. But to tell you the truth, lemme repeat a comment made in the past - as a general rule most peeps claiming super impressive credentials while on the magical thinking side of the argument... well, are lying! :D

No, they don't have 3 PhDs, additional composition and engineering degrees, nor do they have 100s and 100s of years of experience in the recording industry etc. They don't understand that argument by invented authority it is not only a logical fallacy, it makes it even more obvious they are lying.

Do apologize for replying to a month old post, but haven't had the chance to check the forum...

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0.3db down @ 20khz, for shame. Noise at -160db, I'll give them a pass on the fft, as we don't know how long it ran or how these measurements stack up against an AP.

Either way it's all utterly inaudible
 
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