Stereophile doubles down on the snake oil!

[kyuu]

I mean, I've made several pairs of these.

Seems like those cables would bring out the fine details but might also sound a bit thin.

 

[Sal1950]

I would be surprised if you did not notice that sound stage improved quite a bit with these!

Why should that be, supportable evidence please.

I mean, I've made several pairs of these.

I'd be surprised if they didn't pick up on external ground fields, hum, my unshielded Audioquest PBJ cables did. ?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I'd be surprised if they didn't pick up on external ground fields, hum, my unshielded Audioquest PBJ cables did. ?

Are you implying that AQ did a clone of the Kimber?

 

[BeeKay]

I mean, I've made several pairs of these.

Any veils lifted?

 

[Sal1950]

Are you implying that AQ did a clone of the Kimber?

OPPS, NO, senior moment.
Good catch Kal.

 

[mhardy6647]

Why should that be, supportable evidence please.


I'd be surprised if they didn't pick up on external ground fields, hum, my unshielded Audioquest PBJ cables did. ?

They're OK by ear, actually - not that I "looked" any harder than that.

 

[Palladium]

Seems like those cables would bring out the fine details but might also sound a bit thin.

Still thicker than the two wires going to the voice coil of my presumably Wavecor 30mm tweeter, and that is specced at least to 30W...

 

[kyuu]

Still thicker than the two wires going below the dome of my presumably Wavecor 30mm tweeter, and that is specced at least to 30W...

Hey, don't you bring facts into my subjective eyeballing of what a wire will sound like!

 

[Sal1950]

I mean, I've made several pairs of these.

You really blew it using those cheap RCA's.

 

[Frank Dernie]

I think Martin Colloms worked in the Audio T store on the 4th floor of a unit on Oxford Street (103 iirc) where I bought my KEFkit 3 in 1970.
They did test the amplifiers they sold and included a FR and distortion printout with the Goodmans 110 tuner-amp I bought there too.
He started working at magazines when testing kit was an essential part of reviewing.

I did meet him when I gave a friend of mine who designs speakers a lift to his house to listen to some speakers he had there, he ignored me but I was surprised by the space he listened in and where the speakers were in it.
Anyway he was a technically driven reviewer 35+ years ago but went bonkers with speculative technically inane stuff like green pens round CDs and other implausible stuff.
A bit strange but presumably all about selling articles in the end.
His background should not allow him to believe any of this bollox IMO.

 

[teched58]

JVS is IMHO the most dishonest reviewer on the Stereophile staff..
He's so over the top with the baloney relating to hyper-expensive sound system gear, if it costs more, it must be better. All that tweaky garbage that does nothing but costs a lot, shameful.

If Apple came out with a $100,000 iPhone with an LDAC bluetooth codec, JVS would say that is it the best sound he's ever heard. His only criticism would be its DAC's lack of MQA support.

 

[BlackTalon]

... In my opinion, he should be tried and sentenced at the court of law.

so you are advocating for him being the next US President? Because that's how it starts.

 

[Frank Dernie]

set up a mind-blowing system at Munich High End, valued at well over $3 million...

I would contest the implication "value" and replace it as "priced at well over..."

 

[kemmler3D]

I would contest the implication "value" and replace it as "priced at well over..."

Yes, despite the colloquial usage, it's only really "valued" at that number if someone actually pays it. Anyone ever heard of someone paying full retail, no discounts, for a 7-figure system?

 

[Sal1950]

I think Martin Colloms worked in the Audio T store on the 4th floor of a unit on Oxford Street (103 iirc) where I bought my KEFkit 3 in 1970.
They did test the amplifiers they sold and included a FR and distortion printout with the Goodmans 110 tuner-amp I bought there too.
He started working at magazines when testing kit was an essential part of reviewing.

Those were the "good ole days" of audio when no one questioned the value of measurements, even when the measuring gear was somewhat limited.
I loved my Stanton TOTL MM needles, they came with individually plotted FR graphs and more in a sweet little walnut box.
When all was said and done, that box made a great little stash spot for my reefer and goodies.

Stanton 681EEE, The Calibration Standard.

Yes, despite the colloquial usage, it's only really "valued" at that number if someone actually pays it. Anyone ever heard of someone paying full retail, no discounts, for a 7-figure system?

 

[xanalog]

Which is why I specified wave-guide for the 18 GHz backbone system I designed for the Las Vegas traffic signal system back in the 90's. Getting flexible cable, even hard-line, to the point where the insertion loss was tolerable at such frequencies seemed beyond feasibility.

Rick "a glimpse into his professional world" Denney

Inputs were cavity-backed, spiral (RHCP+LHCP), two-inch, domed, antennae antenna-complement, feeding +3dB NF preamps for 'real-time threat' assessment.
The use of waveguides [for the intended platforms] would've equated to a failed 'Vegas wager', even in the 1970s...

 

[Mark617]

They're OK by ear, actually - not that I "looked" any harder than that.

Well, that is all that matter. No need for measurements! Measurements are evil.

 

[Sal1950]

No need for measurements! Measurements are evil

It's not the Measurements but the Measurer that is evil.

 

[JPA]

Huh! This is an excellent idea for further product differentiation and price premia -- different cables for different encodings and music genres. And they would have to be accompanied by a commensurately priced switch (one per channel, of course) with which an audiophool could remotely select the best cable according to what is being played.

But then the switch would be the limiting factor. You would have to have different switches to go with the different cables, but that would only work in an alternate universe where matter and antimatter are the same thing.

 

[xanalog]

1) "truthiness" was a term coined by Stephen Colbert to poke fun at the 2nd Bush administration's loose relationship with facts... Using this term to describe your own work is more or less putting on a big neon sign that says 'I'M LYING"

Boy, O'Boy!
We've come a long way in such short time:
PhotoShop'd, to Misinformation, to Disinformation, to FactCheckers, to DeepFakes, to CheapFakes, to AI-Hallucinations, and now to AI-Alignment.
'Fibbing' has turned from a performance art to a science and those big neon-signs have given way to OLEDs.

This dude's "sucker/minute" estimate must now be in 2 digits.