Snake Oil Department, Top This

[DanielT]

Seems like a lot to go against proven experience and even break the laws of physics in many cases. You can try to do that. However, this tends to happen :

Uploads a favorite picture. By a person who tests speaker cables (cheap ones) and finds that they are completely neutral, does not color the sound at all.

Perhaps it is best to point out that of course he is joking. Just so he does not fall into the same category as quirky people who believe in various snake oil. On the contrary, he is at full use of his senses. Just in a slightly mischievous mood.

 

[Chrispy]

Don't read too much into it, please.

LOL just seems you were "using" the cables in any case. Don't worry, won't be reading too much into anything fraudioquest....

 

[ahofer]

It's still there, as linked to (twice) on the previous page of this thread.

my bad. forgot it was "teleportation".

 

[sq225917]

Geoff kait is a genius. Hats off to him.

 

[audio2design]

Of course, any minutely measureable difference in capacitance is significantly less than the tolerance variation of the capacitors in the crossover....

Heresy!

Let's not even get into variation in parameters as the voice coils heat up!

 

[Sharur]

Dolby Atmos. Loses half the detail in a song and sends all sounds behind me for no reason.

 

[MaxBuck]

Imagine coming home drunk as a skunk to a power outage, tripping on the cables and then falling on all your audio shit.

I don't need to imagine that.

 

[David Harper]

I don't need to imagine that.

me either but most experienced drinkers don't get drunk they've learned how to maintain a buzz for a few hours without getting hammered. I haven't been drunk in 20 years but I drink regularly.

 

[mhardy6647]

Many here have told me that Geoff Kait is absolutely sincere.

When you look at the amount of time he puts in to perpetuating his nonsense at Audiogon and other sites, he seems to have more persistence than an satirist could.

It seems he took down the “improve your system with a phone call from me” offer, though.

His shtick puts me to mind of Andy Kaufman.
I.e., I am not sure if Geoff Kait's utterly sincere/bat-feces crazy or if he's an extremely capable performance artist.
His posts at AA sometimes make me laugh (and not ironically so), in full disclosure.

EDIT: zut alors, he's on LinkedIn!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-kait-a3458617/

 

[Spkrdctr]

I have a friend who is the owner of a high end store (30+ years) bow wows and big macs etc. and he has to stock and offer expensive branded cables and the rest because he learnt that people would not buy stuff from him if he didn't. The really insane margins occur with the manufacturer/retailer such as Audioquest not a small retailer who is caught up in the game. He simply doesn,t push cables, customers demand them, he lets them take them home to try them, they most always keep them and pay. He shakes his head and says "boys must have their toys".

That is why Danny at GR Research offers this stuff. His customers demanded it. They want to do "one stop shopping" for the basic tweaks even if they don't work.

 

[Chrispy]

That is why Danny at GR Research offers this stuff. His customers demanded it. They want to do "one stop shopping" for the basic tweaks even if they don't work.

Tweak shopping is so exhausting!

 

[JSmith]

Tweak shopping is so exhausting!

JSmith

 

[pma]

Passive power amplifier.

 

[Propheticus]

Passive power amplifier.

Is that like one of those free energy / perpetual motion devices?
Heard a lot of great stories about them on Youtube.

Got a great idea: feed a 2Volt 50Hz tone into the passive power amplifier and have it amplify up to 240V. Now hook up the output to your mains. Free electricity! What could go wrong?
/s

 

[egellings]

Power outage!

 

[Somafunk]

A $50,000 solution to turntable isolation,

 

[AdamG]

A $50,000 solution to turntable isolation,

Will need a few of these to display Amir’s coveted Panther figurines in a safe and vibration free manner.

 

[Ken1951]

A $50,000 solution to turntable isolation,

Holy Snake Oil, Batman!!!!!!

 

[Galliardist]

A $50,000 solution to turntable isolation,

Designed for a $450,000 turntable that is supposed to be fully isolated already, at that!

 

[antcollinet]

A $50,000 solution to turntable isolation,

I saw him field one question after another as a group of audiophiles huddled around him listening with rapt attention

If this doesn't tell you audiophillia is a religious cult, nothing will.

I am reminded of...