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snake oil makes me laugh at the amount of whitevan trash audio

here is our three sponsors oh my its snake oil
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My patented Audiophile Fuse Array sports thirty, yes thirty audiophile grade fuses. With this in circuit, you will be able to hear the individual air molecules that are excited by the instruments and vocalists! The sound will be so realistic that you'll believe you're actually one of the musicians in the ensemble you're listening to! All for the low price of $US24,000!
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Punter said:
My patented Audiophile Fuse Array sports thirty, yes thirty audiophile grade fuses. With this in circuit, you will be able to hear the individual air molecules that are excited by the instruments and vocalists! The sound will be so realistic that you'll believe you're actually one of the musicians in the ensemble you're listening to! All for the low price of $US24,000!
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Good gods, you can probably pump half a megawatt through this thing. Perfect for my plans of a Bugatti Veyron powered soundsystem that sounds better than anything else because it's quadturbo. Four smaller ones are way more responsive than a single big one, it'll be really fast, snappy, responsive and dynamic.

I haven't solved the noise floor problem yet, though.
 
Okay, I recently received a bottle of this stuff as a freebie:

https://brilliantsound.de/pages/kontakt-fluid.php

Sorry, text only in German, here's a machine translation (because I'm lazy...)
BSP Contact Fluid GRAPHENE Plus


Our new contact fluid consisting of BSP fluid refined with superconducting graphene and calcium atoms.

The BSP graphene fluid is used to optimize electrical contacts by introducing the graphene into the contacts as a filler/coating/seal.

Since graphene has a significantly higher conductivity like silver and copper, it produces the highest electrical conductivity in all metal contacts. This means that after treatment with BSP graphene fluid, the current can now flow without resistance.

Due to the extreme improvement in conductivity and the resulting lowest resistance of all conductive products, these values naturally achieve extremely better sound quality in the hi-fi range, which is permanently guaranteed because the contacts are sealed in the nano range.

No matter what quality your cables, plugs or fuses are, the associated contacts are unfortunately due to the material properties of e.g. B. Silver, copper, rhodium or brass an audible weak point.

This vulnerability is removed once and for all by our graph fluid. This means that your connections can now deliver your quality in the truest sense of the word for the first time.
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Well, someone forgot to collect their Nobel Price after discovering a room temperature superconductor!

And what am I gonna do with that stuff? :confused:
 
Maybe try if there is audible difference when used on bicycle chains or squeaky door hinges? :rolleyes:
 
Punter said:
My patented Audiophile Fuse Array sports thirty, yes thirty audiophile grade fuses. With this in circuit, you will be able to hear the individual air molecules that are excited by the instruments and vocalists! The sound will be so realistic that you'll believe you're actually one of the musicians in the ensemble you're listening to! All for the low price of $US24,000!
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Get a couple for the kids!
 
BlueMeanie said:
Okay, I recently received a bottle of this stuff as a freebie:

https://brilliantsound.de/pages/kontakt-fluid.php

Sorry, text only in German, here's a machine translation (because I'm lazy...)


Well, someone forgot to collect their Nobel Price after discovering a room temperature superconductor!

And what am I gonna do with that stuff? :confused:
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I would pay a few dollars for something that would increase the life of charging ports. A contact lube that actually works.
 
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Always fun being at dad's. He has funny things:

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What you see there is a "Supra Lorad 2.5 mk2" power cable, 3x2.5mm² that he normally uses with his 2x5W tube amp (not pictured). Omg it elevates my cheap DAC to whole new levels! The lifted veils and much stronger and more defined bass! :p Admittedly, reasonably priced at 80€, still, what the fuck.

Top left is the separate power line for the stereo, audiophile Schuko socket. Going to the breaker box to a special gold plated melting fuse and special holder, because automatic breakers don't sound good! Shielded installation wire in the wall too. :facepalm:

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Omg so detail, many quality, such power, amaze, wow. Surely 230V/32A is desperately needed for an old man's stereo who never listens loud.

It's kinda embarrassing because dad is an electronics engineer with a lifetime of professional audio experience, and still falls for this shit. Love you anyway, dad. :D

He's a blessed man anyway. Mum also has a degree in electronics and sees right through this bullshit, but lets it slide because it makes him happy, as long as it doesn't ruin their finances. She gets that music is important to him (as it is to me), and never objected to a proper stereo. WAF isn't much of a concern in their household, a rarity. Still doesn't stop her and me bantering about his snake oil stuff every time I visit. :p Her ears are better than his and mine combined anyway. In younger years when I asked her opinion about electrotechno stuff I made, her staple answer was "it sounds good but it needs more bass".

Lucky is the man with a wife and the son with a mother like her. <3
 
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Gold is great for low current/low voltage contact points.
But it's very fragile, so it's terrible for high current/high voltage contact points.
Plug a power amp in while it is turned-on and it will blow holes in the gold.
 
Speedskater said:
Gold is great for low current/low voltage contact points.
But it's very fragile, so it's terrible for high current/high voltage contact points.
Plug a power amp in while it is turned-on and it will blow holes in the gold.
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Didn't know that. Is it really that bad? Somewhat lower conductivity, thin plating, and material weakness against high current spikes add up that much it can destroy it?
 
Ropeburn said:
Didn't know that. Is it really that bad? Somewhat lower conductivity, thin plating, and material weakness against high current spikes add up that much it can destroy it?
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I can see an arc vaporizing a thin gold plating. But that's why you need solid gold, of course.
 
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