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Magic Audiophile Gear

kevin

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This person has assembled a listing of the worst 'audiophile' products around, including the GSIC-10 Intelligent Chip recently featured around here.

And a replacement volume knob that will only cost you $485 but make your system sound so, so good. because it's made of wood.

http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm
 
$30,000 for speaker cables....

Nearly 7 grand for a volume knob that improves with a $485 wooden knob...

Don't these people know that all you need to do is to quantumly activate your DNA's frequencies and you'll then be able to hear the music on your CDs energistically? Geeze, some people....
 
Or how about some SPECIAL WIRE to make those sound signals travel better?
 
Good freaking lavin! I wonder if I can get their customer lists. I'm almost certain I can sell them even better stuff for even higher prices.
 
Maybe trainman can tell us how they all work.

Of course, we'd need to trank fowlsound first.
 
Starthinker said:
Good freaking lavin! I wonder if I can get their customer lists. I'm almost certain I can sell them even better stuff for even higher prices.
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Wood jacketed speaker cables. A guaranteed hit. Two foot sections with gold plugs and sockets at each end. 1259 dollars a section, cheap at the price. Each angle in the route to your speakers will require an angle adapter, which goes for $765.37 for a right hand one, and $923.76 for a left hand one. They differ because of quantum polarity vortices, you know, and lefts are very difficult to align. Each one must be custom tuned at our factory. Longer sections available on special order. to achieve perfect speaker placement some sections may need to be shortened. This can be done for a modest charge of $93 per inch removed. Will substitute Iroko wood for standard oak for a modest 415% surcharge. Sound quality will achieve unprecedented translucency and freedom from flex-cable induced jutter. Not guaranteed against effects of bad feng shui.
 
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Plus a $1,000 pair of specially treated nanoglass reverberator plates to place several feet away from the speakers to ensure top quality sound!
 
Hah! Dirty ripoff Qi bandit messes with Feng Shui All Angled AudioCables. All know that bad audio devils are unable to travels around corners. Just like feng shui bridges must be built at angles, so must audio cables. Special cables are all teak and bamboozle.
 
Holy crap! I can glue up some spruce boards, finish them and charge 200 Euros for a 80cm x 50cm section! Better yet, that company is no longer taking orders because they can't make them fast enough so this is a license to print money!!! Or Euros...
 
Confessions of a teenaged audiophile

Time to fess up... :)

When I was in my teens I was seriously into high-end audio systems. I couldn't afford a Linn Sondek turntable but I got the next best thing, a Rega Planar 3. Belt driven, glass platter, all black, all manual (just a power switch). I loved it.

I built my own amps and preamps. The only controls on the preamp were source selector and volume.

I built my own speaker enclosures using software I wrote myself to calculate box volume and port specifications from the Thiele/Small parameters.

There were people I knew that tried to sell me fancy cables and things all those years ago, but even as a gullible and naive 16 year old I didn't fall for it. Maybe I was sceptical because I had a much greater understanding of what really makes a difference to the quality of sound reproduction.

Nothing beats learning enough about the theory (Thiele/Small, etc), and the engineering (slew rate limiting, negative feedback, long-tailed differential pairs, etc etc) to know that the stupid volume knob is not worth fussing over.
 
logical muse said:
Time to fess up... :)

When I was in my teens I was seriously into high-end audio systems. I couldn't afford a Linn Sondek turntable but I got the next best thing, a Rega Planar 3. Belt driven, glass platter, all black, all manual (just a power switch). I loved it.

I built my own amps and preamps. The only controls on the preamp were source selector and volume.

I built my own speaker enclosures using software I wrote myself to calculate box volume and port specifications from the Thiele/Small parameters.

There were people I knew that tried to sell me fancy cables and things all those years ago, but even as a gullible and naive 16 year old I didn't fall for it. Maybe I was sceptical because I had a much greater understanding of what really makes a difference to the quality of sound reproduction.

Nothing beats learning enough about the theory (Thiele/Small, etc), and the engineering (slew rate limiting, negative feedback, long-tailed differential pairs, etc etc) to know that the stupid volume knob is not worth fussing over.
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I just added you to my buddies list for that post.

Well done.
 
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