Good ol' BS! There's a lot of it about! I can't imagine a world devoid of BS.Is this the kinda BS we are gonna need to suffer through this April fools?
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Maybe you could grind up some of that crystal and try a bit of it.No chance that those could keep up with the fairy dust I am using ....
Hopefully the BS label does that.True that!
It must however be, at times, exposed, however unpleasant..
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Har! Thanks. That was a good one. And it was only part way through when I thought of the date...
I'm quite relieved it was simply humor.
What did he use for the fog, an air humidifier on 11?
I wonder. Perhaps the cameraman was vaping furiously. Relieved of course that dispelling the fog meant the return of 'inky blacks'.
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I do hate it when I find a Medieval sword hidden in the floorboards under my hifi:
Grandad finds ‘500-year-old well with medieval sword' under his living room
Colin Steer, from Plymouth said that he was decorating his front room when he noticed a dip in the carpet which turned out to be the well. He has spent ten years excavating it
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Very clever of Darko to show measurements of the "fog effect" at the beginning. Part of the hook.
The end result with the cable on top of the lifters looks like something a child would do. What an odd idea.
Yes the bogus measurements were great.
Fyi for anyone puzzled by appearance of the Darko "renters fog" video and comments here, it was originally posted (by me) as a stand-alone April fool thread in general audio discussions, but moved here by admin/moderation I assume. I posted there initially because one doesn't announce April fool material as humour, obviously. And that's also where the earlier April fool thread I linked to started and still resides. I wasn't asked about moving it, but if I was I'd say it should end up in the humour category of course, not here.
I think it was a good April joke from John Darko, I even tried to spin it further with my earlier reply to you that the same thing happens in Sweden.
When I saw his video, I was fooled and thought "why on earth do they use such radiators in Germany that randomly create smoke like that".
I fell for the renter's fog thing (never been to Germany but I know the Continentals often have different ways of doing things) but when he said it was affecting the measurements, the jig was up.I think it was a good April joke from John Darko, I even tried to spin it further with my earlier reply to you that the same thing happens in Sweden.
When I saw his video, I was fooled and thought "why on earth do they use such radiators in Germany that randomly create smoke like that".
maybe someone should tell him that if you regularly talk nonsense you can't really do a successful April Fool?
I think it was a good April joke from John Darko, I even tried to spin it further with my earlier reply to you that the same thing happens in Sweden.
Those mass-produced Audioquest Fog Lifters are fine for industrialised Berlin I guess, but you'd be looking for something crafted from baltic pine and caribou sinew for the Swedish sonic environment? Unless it's IKEA.
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After watching Darko video, even though knew it was joke it was eerily no different from other videos produced that are made seriously but known snake oil. 10k iq play as now we must believe he knows the difference when peddling some nonsense.
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"So what does REN has to offer? If I had to limit the assessment to a single sentence I would say that it offers unparalleled tranquility, closely followed by an incredibly orderly fashion of presenting the music. Yes, I know it requires further explanation. The tranquility here is understood as a complete lack of nervousness in the sound, even the one I usually don’t realize is there until is gone – that is a feature of some, most often power-related audio products. The noise in the background is gone hence there is no distortion and everything falls into place. All the elements of the music are presented without rushing things, without shortcuts, detours, timing issues, or any other sort of distractions in a pure, steady fashion. The presentation is no longer about the sound but it’s rather all about the music and all its building elements, even the tiniest ones, that are presented with amazing clarity and transparency."