Snake Oil Department, Top This

[pseudoid]

Dude(s) -- at the least, get some audiophile outlets. Mine are orange. Spec'd by me when the house was built.
Needless to say*, their audiophile cred is off the charts.

...get ready to be ridiculed by @Jim Taylor because he apparently did not carefully read what I carefully constructed (both recent replies).
I recommend you put some more emojis.

If he doesn't; I will paint my outlets same orange as yours!

 

[fpitas]

...get ready to be ridiculed by @Jim Taylor because he apparently did not carefully read what I carefully constructed (both recent replies).
I recommend you put some more emojis.

If he doesn't; I will paint my outlets same orange as yours!

They have to be molded that color. Otherwise they don't sound as good.

 

[pseudoid]

Otherwise they don't sound as good.

How many dB reduction?

 

[fpitas]

How many dB reduction?

This is something you hear. It can't be measured.

 

[Ahmonge]

Please tell me that you two are joking

Yes, I was joking. Of course.

 

[pseudoid]

This is something you hear. It can't be measured.

I disagree! How many AP measurements show MAINs frequency rearing its ugly signature in the graphs.
Yes @Jim Taylor, we can argue it is -96.256dB down from the 1kHz test signal but it shows that it is not as invisible or (unheard) as they should be.
I think one of your consternation points was that the manufacturers' know best...?

 

[pseudoid]

Whew! You really had me goin' for a minute! I almost had a heart attack! Jim

phew... I really had no intentions of painting my outlets...
10Q!

 

[noiseangel]

Dude(s) -- at the least, get some audiophile outlets. Mine are orange. Spec'd by me when the house was built.
Needless to say*, their audiophile cred is off the charts.




______________
* Not that it stopped me from 'saying' it.

Those orange outlets look like the possessed screaming souls of ghouls. Frightening.

 

[noiseangel]

This is something you hear. It can't be measured.

Be careful someone might agree with you

 

[Holmz]

That was a perfect write up to justify a PS Audio Regenerator unit. If Paul sees this he will use it for his customer service people when they are on the phone!

I thought Regurgitator was a Brisbane band ?

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

Regurgitator? Did you have to bring them up again?

 

[Holmz]

Regurgitator? Did you have to bring them up again?

I though it might be better than the regenerator?

 

[antcollinet]

You could say "Born Again"?

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[antcollinet]

Those are legit products. Ceramic power cable isolators are on power line poles. Cost $5 or so. But their use case migrating to the audiophile realm is a bit of a fantasy. It does keep cables routing tidy.

genius. Take a mass produced cheap product and remarket as a boutique tweak.

Come the revolution...

 

[pseudoid]

Regurgitator? Did you have to bring them up again?

I like that word-play; intentional or otherwise!

 

[mhardy6647]

Sure, but you're used to all that coloration from those horns!

/Perpetuating the horn myths

I guess it's whatever the complement of orange is -- so it all comes out in the wash, you know?

I mean, there you go. Horns ↔ Miles Davis ↔ Kind of Blue.
Game, set, and match.

 

[audiofooled]

Perfect? It cannot be; it is out of your control.

AC MAINs voltage variations
AC MAINs frequency variations
AC MAINs 'earth ground' reference
AC MAINs phase used for audio and other AC MAINs connected-hardware about the house
AC MAINs spikes, noise, RFI/EMI both from the primary AC MAINs primary input and AC MAINs power-sharing inside the house/phase

I am not saying that these always will be attacking your audio system/sound but these are just some of the potential vulnerabilities if your audio hardware (and all other in-house electronics) do poor power management.

None of the above is audible in my case, except on occasional thunderstorms when the amplifier reboots itself...

 

[Killingbeans]

genius. Take a mass produced cheap product and remarket as a boutique tweak.

Come the revolution...

It's already been done to the extreme :

 

[mansr]

It's already been done to the extreme :
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That reminds me of the "tension sheets" in Red Dwarf.

Tension Sheet

The Tension Sheet was a stress relief aide invented by Fred "Thickie" Holden, one of Arnold Rimmer's schoolmates at Io House. "Thickie" was an incredibly stupid person, but managed to come up with a simple idea for making money. He patented the Tension Sheet, which was just bubble wrap painted...

reddwarf.fandom.com

 

[fpitas]

genius. Take a mass produced cheap product and remarket as a boutique tweak.

Come the revolution...

Moreover a pointless tweak without any sonic value. But that's why it's such good snake oil.