DonR
Major Contributor
It feels like we are witnessing 300 years of scientific advancement slipping backwards.
People have been energetically resisting con men and lunatics for thousands of years without much to show for it. It’s endemic to human civilization. They still won’t be spending my money. It’s my choice what to buy. The hi-fi world has been bloviating about this sort of bullsh— for the better part of 60 years now and I can still buy a standard coax interconnect and zip cord speaker wire. I have no trouble finding the sort of components I prefer to own.The problem is this: if knowledgeable people do NOT energetically resist the encroachments of lunatics and con men, then that constitutes "tacit agreement". Over time, tacit agreements by the thousands can reshape reality, so to speak. When that happens, businesses follow, and the next time you go out to buy something, they WILL be spending your money.
Ouch!
Jim
Way back in my playing days my choice of reed really made a difference. However, I didn't believe that it made any difference as to what type of wood I put my TT on. Maple, Cherry, Oak, Mahogany, Teak, Bamboo - well it all sounded the same to me!If special wood makes a violin sound different than special wood on my turntable or speakers should too.
I went back to the KEF site to link the description and it apparently was an April Fool's Day joke, since there is a link there that says "April Fool's" and it was posted open March 31. So that is apparently not a real product. It was just too stupid to be real!Now that HAS to be an April Fools' joke... surely.
Very hard to tell these days.I went back to the KEF site to link the description and it apparently was an April Fool's Day joke, since there is a link there that says "April Fool's" and it was posted open March 31. So that is apparently not a real product. It was just too stupid to be real!
You mean, a Demonetizer?The theory of operation here is simply that you have money in your wallet and they want it in their bank account.
LOL! Reminds me of the old Python private hospital skit: "We've every facility here for dealing with people who are rich. We can deal with a blocked purse, we can drain private accounts and in the worst cases we can perform a total cashectomy, which is total removal of all moneys from the patient."You mean, a Demonetizer?
LOL!LOL! Reminds me of the old Python private hospital skit: "We've every facility here for dealing with people who are rich. We can deal with a blocked purse, we can drain private accounts and in the worst cases we can perform a total cashectomy, which is total removal of all moneys from the patient."
I don’t think anything we do here is keeping the hi-fi scam artists, their acolytes in the press, or their customers “in check”.It simply means that you keep them in check. And yes, it's a day-to-day and everyday job.
I think it might be a better job than you think. The site gets millions of visitors. I first visited because I was trying to understand what the important features of an amp were and this was one of the few places that laid it out with measurements. Without this site I would have spent 10x more on an amp, with no guarantee it it performed any better than the one I ended up getting. Maybe not snake oil or outright con would have been the result, but I would have been far more susceptible to it. And for every person like me who joins, 100s don’t. But they visit and may also be better guarded against outright cons.I don’t think anything we do here is keeping the hi-fi scam artists, their acolytes in the press, or their customers “in check”.
Dismiss it if you like, but when I played the very first demagnetized LP, my wife immediately noticed from the kitchen. It turns out that the rotating magnetic fields affected her carbon-steel knives, so the Furutech allows much thinner, more consistent, tomato slices.One small problem with Furutech's patter is that it appears, at least based on the results of a preliminary Google search, that the carbon atoms found in the chemical Polyvinyl Chloride - the main ingredient found in LPs - are actually not magnetizable. So perhaps some other theory might be offered to explain why demagnetization of LPs and CDs works.
Won't stop them pushing their fake products but it might reduce the number of mug punters that are prepared to buy them.I don’t think anything we do here is keeping the hi-fi scam artists, their acolytes in the press, or their customers “in check”.
That takes the Placebo Effect to a whole new level!Dismiss it if you like, but when I played the very first demagnetized LP, my wife immediately noticed from the kitchen. It turns out that the rotating magnetic fields affected her carbon-steel knives, so the Furutech allows much thinner, more consistent, tomato slices.
Additionally, it turns out that I don't actually have a Furutech. Or LPs. Or a wife.
I have a pair of Sabrina X’s and I read that review. it is obviously baloney that moving the speakers 1/4 inch works miracles, unless you as the listener have your head in a vice so that it can’t move at all. That being said, placement is always important, just not the idiotic 1/4 inch statement. The Sabrina X’s are fantastic speakers and I really like them. I routinely move my head an inch or more when listening, and the sound is always perfect. Shame on the reviewer for making it seem as if such tiny changes in speaker placement make all the difference in the world on these great speakers.Well... actually, precisely positioning speakers in a room does have a profound effect on things like bass, imaging, phase.
Not sure how your comment is relevant to the snake oil rants?
You mean you don't?it is obviously baloney that moving the speakers 1/4 inch works miracles, unless you as the listener have your head in a vice so that it can’t move at all.
OMG! How funny. New Idea: An audiophile chair that is a modified dentist’s chair . . . Just think how the soundstage will be deeper and wider, the instruments perfectly placed, and instead of one of those little water sprayers that hooks in your mouth, it can spray beer or the beverage of your choice without moving your head and destroying the soundstage!
I've never visited the Brass home, but I've been told that Brass Ear has this special electric chair. Its place on the floor is carefully marked. The chair is adjustable so it moves up and down. That way, Brass can get the Brass Ears at just the right plane—and he can change the listening plane depending on the recording. This beats readjusting the cartridge VTA. Brass adjusts the height of his ears—vertical listening angle, or VLA!