I know lots of people like that. They treat drinking like eating potato chips. Heck when I was younger, I did that every now and then too but my wife always put her foot down and stopped me after a few months. She was a good woman!
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I know lots of people like that. They treat drinking like eating potato chips. Heck when I was younger, I did that every now and then too but my wife always put her foot down and stopped me after a few months. She was a good woman!
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I think the liver is evil and must be punished.
Sweet setup, I wonder if he ever just relaxes and enjoys what he’s got instead of just cooking cables all the time.
I'm reminded of the husband of a friend of my wife's, who built a sound system in the basement of their large home. We visited, and they took us on a tour. During the tour, he turned on and cranked up the sound system, interrupting an ongoing conversation between my wife and her friend, to which I had been listening (my wife's friend was far more interesting than he was, it must be admitted, despite my own interest in sound systems). As he bopped his head to the music, utterly unable to read the room and therefore missing that it was the wrong time for a demonstration, I was reminded from even further back of...
...Stanley Tibbets, the conductor of an orchestra in San Francisco in the movie Foul Play. He keeps thinking (the incomparable) Goldie Hawn has the hots for him, in spite of all evidence, and notwithstanding that events keep pushing them into the same space at the same time.
"I've got it all!"
For the objective he had in mind, consider all the snake-oil products in view, none of which will help him attain that objective, but all of which may help him hide that fact from himself while depleting his available cash. That is, of course, the whole point of snake oil.
Rick "aside: one of the few actors who could conduct with some semblance of stick technique, but, of course, a first-class pianist" Denney
...Stanley Tibbets, the conductor of an orchestra in San Francisco in the movie Foul Play. He keeps thinking (the incomparable) Goldie Hawn has the hots for him, in spite of all evidence, and notwithstanding that events keep pushing them into the same space at the same time.
"I've got it all!"
For the objective he had in mind, consider all the snake-oil products in view, none of which will help him attain that objective, but all of which may help him hide that fact from himself while depleting his available cash. That is, of course, the whole point of snake oil.
Rick "aside: one of the few actors who could conduct with some semblance of stick technique, but, of course, a first-class pianist" Denney
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These videos are proof that you don't need to be overly intelligent to be successful (at something).
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This post I made occured just after the thread on the OCD Hi-Fi Guy youtube channel thread was closed. Figured it's pertinant here:
I've stumbled across OCD Hi-Fi Guy youtube channel occasionally, most recently his "9 Ugly Truths About High End Audio" video.
Before watching it, if I could have bet our entire savings for our children's education on him propounding some misleading nonsense, I would have done so on a sure bet.
Sure enough, only moments in to the video he's advising other audiophiles that "you can't image properly unless you have a DAC that can do that. Or a tape of phono preamp that can do that." How much does he say you have to pay to get that performance from one of those items? "Between $3,000 - $5,000" He specifically mentions you will not get this from, for example, a Benchmark DAC.
And of course he sells this kind of stuff.
And the youtube comments are overwhelmingly filled with positive agreement with his video.
Sigh...
I've stumbled across OCD Hi-Fi Guy youtube channel occasionally, most recently his "9 Ugly Truths About High End Audio" video.
Before watching it, if I could have bet our entire savings for our children's education on him propounding some misleading nonsense, I would have done so on a sure bet.
Sure enough, only moments in to the video he's advising other audiophiles that "you can't image properly unless you have a DAC that can do that. Or a tape of phono preamp that can do that." How much does he say you have to pay to get that performance from one of those items? "Between $3,000 - $5,000" He specifically mentions you will not get this from, for example, a Benchmark DAC.
And of course he sells this kind of stuff.
And the youtube comments are overwhelmingly filled with positive agreement with his video.
Sigh...
The perfect audiophile with a wide stage, not of sound, but of gear.
Who has 59 minutes+ of patience to watch that anyway; not meeee.
I prefer enjoying music instead.
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Get 'em while they're hot, boys!
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/ar...s-new-supreme-reference-cable-range-odin-gold
It's like there is no end to the sonic improvements in cables, and audiophiles have some limitless capability of hearing down in to the noise floor. At this point scientists could employ audiophiles to listen to the signal left over from the Big Bang!
It seems basically like the task of selling Coca Cola. How do you keep selling essentially the same thing for 100 years, but keep making it seem fresh and new? Well, with cables, just keep changing the tint or shape or look of the cables, and claim they come along with "technological development," it seems.
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/ar...s-new-supreme-reference-cable-range-odin-gold
It's like there is no end to the sonic improvements in cables, and audiophiles have some limitless capability of hearing down in to the noise floor. At this point scientists could employ audiophiles to listen to the signal left over from the Big Bang!
It seems basically like the task of selling Coca Cola. How do you keep selling essentially the same thing for 100 years, but keep making it seem fresh and new? Well, with cables, just keep changing the tint or shape or look of the cables, and claim they come along with "technological development," it seems.
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Gotta wonder what kinda AI is used to spit out this gibberish.
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I think anyone should buy what they want. But hopefully not under false pretenses.
There is something in particular about the apparent level of blatant cynism in these high priced cables that activates my Anger Module.
There is something in particular about the apparent level of blatant cynism in these high priced cables that activates my Anger Module.
It should.
Skin depth at 50hz in copper is 9.2mm - that is a cable that is good for 225 amps. Must be one hell of an amp he is running there if it can pull that much power.
Or his speakers are in a different city than his amps.Skin depth at 50hz in copper is 9.2mm - that is a cable that is good for 225 amps. Must be one hell of an amp he is running there if it can pull that much power.
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