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Snake Oil Department, Top This

antcollinet said:
5 bits for crying. 6 bits for laughing, and 75 bits for love.


According to my in depth analysis.
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Where I come from 2 bits is $0.25 cents. ;)
Nobody knows what I'm talking about any more. :facepalm:
 
You get the impression that the folks who wax lyrical about the improvements from audiophile switches would test drive two cars and declare that one feels much faster than the other without ever looking at the speedo :p
 
network acoustics are being talked up on the Naim Forum - their network switch is a snip at £5800 ex VAT. Made from hand selected wood no less :rolleyes:

The solid beechwood enclosure is crafted from a hand-selected piece of wood and precision-milled by high-end speaker maker AUER Acoustics. Beech was chosen after exhaustive materials testing for its uniquely balanced and neutral sonic character. Its natural damping eliminates the resonances and colouration that metal and composite housings introduce.

Supporting this are Network Acoustics’ newly developed Pyramid Isolators. Hand machined from hardened silicate minerals and tapered to a point, each isolator presents the smallest possible contact to the base of the Muon2 switch eliminating the transmission of surface-borne vibration into the chassis. The audible effect is even greater focus, improved micro-detail, and a more stable soundstage.

From elsewhere on their homepage :

Our main tool of measurement used while developing our products is continuous subjective listening tests, and over time we’ve learned which parameters are technically critical.
 
Sal1950 said:
Where I come from 2 bits is $0.25 cents. ;)
Nobody knows what I'm talking about any more. :facepalm:
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Isn't that what a shave and a haircut costs?
 
Punter said:
This stuff just gets more and more ludicrous.
https://shunyata.com/product/delta-x
So now cables need tractor wheels and a vacuum cleaner fitting in the middle. All yours for the reasonable price of US$39,000.


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Sorry about the late response but this thread is hard to keep up with! Anyway, I couldn't resist and went to their website, followed a link to reviews and found this <https://hifiplus.com/articles/shunyata-research-omega-sp/> To think that I bought a few issues of that mag a long time ago, mostly out of curiosity, of course! The whole "review" is worth reading for the sheer insanity of it, but I'll just quote this:-

"Many will follow the path I mentioned. Those who have recently discovered the joys of Shunyata Research’s power products – especially the Everest 8000 and Omega XC power cord – will be just as surprised and impressed by the performance of the signal cables that carry the same name. Just don’t be surprised if – sooner or later – every part of your system features Shunyata Research’s Omega cables!

Price and Contact Details​

  • Omega RCA/XLR interconnect cables: £9,500, $9,500 per metre pair.
  • Omega SP loudspeaker cables: £24,995, $24,995 per 2.5m pair."
 
CapMan said:
Supporting this are Network Acoustics’ newly developed Pyramid Isolators. Hand machined from hardened silicate minerals and tapered to a point, each isolator presents the smallest possible contact to the base of the Muon2 switch eliminating the transmission of surface-borne vibration into the chassis. The audible effect is even greater focus, improved micro-detail, and a more stable soundstage.
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These isolators ruin the presentation. Looks like childs play. If you have someone in your audiophool net, why put cherries on top..


But these guys have nothing on Shunyata Omega loudspeaker cables. People need to use bigger multipliers. Don't lowball in the 4-digit range. That's entry level HiFi.
 
Audiofire said:
To the asylum? Outside, we will be appalled by the the price–performance ratio.
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That's the point, isn't it? Even if this stuff does perform better than common-or-garden equivalents, how can they justify prices that are truly insane? They're passive, not even active devices like some other outrageously priced items like, well, a lot of "high end" stuff.
 
CapMan said:
You get the impression that the folks who wax lyrical about the improvements from audiophile switches would test drive two cars and declare that one feels much faster than the other without ever looking at the speedo :p
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That's easy: just make the exhaust sound more racy and allow the engine to vibrate more, which tell you how hard it's working!
 
Bruce Morgen said:
Thus demonstrating that there is no direct correlation between lots of disposable income and simple common sense.
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Of course, they are probably outliers and most people with that much income don't do that, or are even interested in audio beyond a basic functional level. All the same, there are clearly enough to support a very strange small part of an industry that *ought* to be very much science-based. I wonder if there are any stats on this anywhere? We don't seem to have the same insanity with, say, photography, do we?
 
Mt ultimate snake oil product was the Tice Clock. This was a small nightstand alarm clock that you plugged into a wall outlet anywhere in the house, and it magically made your system sound better.
 
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