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Enchy said:
"Our power cables take around 200 hours to fully break in."
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It would have been fun to listen to the meeting where exactly 200 hours were decided.

Do I have any bids, what do you say? Did I hear 200 000 hours? No, that sounds crazy. Forward with new bids now. 20 hours bid. But damn guys came on! 20 hours! It sounds like we sell crap cables. Think now..how many hours should we say ...

I regret. It would not have been fun at all. I had just gotten annoyed and pissed off at the pranksters.
 
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They’ve been reviewed here already! They even reacted in that topic doing some damage control… didn’t work though :facepalm:
 
Is this site for real? https://www.thecableco.com

For example, Black Out Paint https://www.thecableco.com/black-out-paint.html

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Scienceguy said:
On

Question - has anyone tried it or is it just to absurd in theory to actually buy a bottle and give it an unbiased listen.
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It is absurd in theory and there's no moral reason to stuff money in a charlatan's pockets. One of the companies where I ran product development made contact enhancers (Cramolin), but they worked on legitimate principles and we made no wild claims. They were also priced in a non-insane way. That stuff is long gone, but there are legitimate chemical contact treatments sold by reputable companies like Rocol, LPS, Chemtronics, and Caig.
 
Descartes said:
Unfortunately yes an other unethical hi-fi company!
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The Cable Co. has been around for over 20 years. I haven't visited the site for about that long, but they used to have a decent selection of used gear. So, not a total waste of space.

Of course, they are called The Cable Co., so they push a lot of wire.
 
Jim Taylor said:
Unfortunately scam artists are successful due to a sense of timing that lets them exit just before the hammer hits. Jim
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But when does the hammer hit? Bruce Brisson is still around after decades in the biz, still selling the ludicrous MIT cable. Synergistic Research was a sick joke when they started out, and now they sell high-priced crap, only more of it and based on ever more insane
 
SIY said:
It is absurd in theory and there's no moral reason to stuff money in a charlatan's pockets. One of the companies where I ran product development made contact enhancers (Cramolin), but they worked on legitimate principles and we made no wild claims. They were also priced in a non-insane way. That stuff is long gone, but there are legitimate chemical contact treatments sold by reputable companies like Rocol, LPS, Chemtronics, and Caig.
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And I have used it and it indeed vanquished some low level static. It literally worked like magic. psst, pssst, insert and twist, gone.
 
Jim Taylor said:
Unfortunately scam artists are successful due to a sense of timing that lets them exit just before the hammer hits. Jim
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How long is it going to take to educate peeps to rationalize stuff like this? Point form and brief to the degree one can be certain.
 
Jim Taylor said:
Unfortunately scam artists are successful due to a sense of timing that lets them exit just before the hammer hits. Jim
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As I was saying, Synergistic Research has been around for a long time selling wire based on fairy dust, a laughingstock for anyone with sense, but they haven't gone bankrupt. They're making bank and then some.

So whence this "hammer"?
 
jsrtheta said:
There are always new recruits who will swallow anything.
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At that I draw the line. If I want tubes, it's going to be at least partly for the warm glow, and he wants me to use black out?
 
JRS said:
At that I draw the line. If I want tubes, it's going to be at least partly for the warm glow, and he wants me to use black out?
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yea, I know. A big part of tubes is seeing the tubes!
 
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