Jaxjax
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Yep...& that company sells those rocks/pebbles for $130. per small zip lock bag of em..
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Pearljam5000
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Does it actually reduce resonances?
A note from Emergency Department : “Nothing goes up your butt by accident!”
Ok… I am old!
Who recalls “M’pingo discs” and “Shakti Stones”?
Who recalls “M’pingo discs” and “Shakti Stones”?
MarkS
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You're not old! You can still buy those today!
Good snake oil never goes out of style!
Good snake oil never goes out of style!
But but.. it's a HiFi+ winner 2022, are you saying this might be fake?I recently stumbled upon these before I even heard the "brand" called Synergistic Research:
Black Box
www.synergisticresearch.com
It's a black box (LITERALLY!!!) that magically transforms sound just by placing somewhere in the room. They won't even bother explaining how, it just does after paying $4K for a pair!
I just witnessed a used pair sold for $2K. It really pains me knowing people this stupid can earn enough to spend upwards of $2K into any one thing.
That, or Enhances them, who knows., anyways it's a bargain for sure.
Killingbeans
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It might absorb something way, way above the point of ultrasonics, but so will everything else around it.
It's guaranteed to have a distinct resonance frequency of its own though. It's just a really, really expensive claves, or a really, really expensive helmholtz absorber that operate in a stupid frequency range
Completely pointless exercise mind you. There's nothing that needs to be reduced in the first place.
But if at anytime some bit went rogue - you’d be prepared!
Ages like a fine wine
Is there a computer program with gps with a supplied positioning protractor to get precise alignment ??
A solution looking for a problem to solve...It might absorb something way, way above the point of ultrasonics, but so will everything else around it.
It's guaranteed to have a distinct resonance frequency of its own though. It's just a really, really expensive claves, or a really, really expensive helmholtz absorber that operate in a stupid frequency range
Completely pointless exercise mind you. There's nothing that needs to be reduced in the first place.
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Yup.
Just recently in a video he was telling everyone about an important discovery he made, where things weren't sounding as good as he hoped, until he stopped the stream and started again and then bam everything sounded amazing, so now he's advocating that people not just listen to a server streaming (be it Tidal or local files I believe) but go through this stopping starting/rebooting stuff in order to get proper sound.
It's just the perfect storm for how audiophile tweaks arise: a person who doesn't know about the technicalities of the gear he's using, coming to mere intuition-based conclusions, and vetting these pet theories using sighted listening which of course confirm the new intuition.
Like watching audiophile woo-woo being born before your eyes.
I like how every placebophile argument ends up to "If you reject my baseless conjectures you are just a poor pathetic pleb"
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Already been discussed but I always get a good laugh when people claim the soundstage gets wide open or the fast rythmic section placement is different just by changing a network switch. The linked video tries to provide "proof".
EDIT : oh it's even worse than I thought, some people are chaining two switches (1600$ each), why not 3 or more ?
EDIT : oh it's even worse than I thought, some people are chaining two switches (1600$ each), why not 3 or more ?
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But surely, you then have to determine whether copper wire or fibre optic cable sounds better.
My home is being upgraded to fibre later this month. I can't wait to hear how much better YouTube videos sound.