Just came back from the CEDIA show, and the most blatantly hysterical
snake oil was coming from the MIT booth.

Their newest interconnects (which proudly feature a little black box
jammed full of enough components to build a Pentium 4) is being touted
in a number of ads that show a graph:

The X axis is Frequency

The Y axis is ... "ARTICULATION" !!!!!

And "ARTICULATION" is calibrated as a *percentage* !!!!!!!

"Ordinary cables only achieve 60% ARTICULATION, and then only at one
frequency. MIT's new (insert name of new product) achieves close to
100% ARTICULATION at all frequencies across the audio bandwidth." (I'm
paraphrasing.)

Holy bullpucky Batman, I literally burst out laughing, and couldn't
even keep a straight face long enough to query the booth dweeb who was
hawking this malarkey.

On 9/15/04 6:56 PM, in article , "Buster Mudd"
wrote:

Just came back from the CEDIA show, and the most blatantly hysterical
snake oil was coming from the MIT booth.

Their newest interconnects (which proudly feature a little black box
jammed full of enough components to build a Pentium 4) is being touted
in a number of ads that show a graph:

The X axis is Frequency

The Y axis is ... "ARTICULATION" !!!!!

And "ARTICULATION" is calibrated as a *percentage* !!!!!!!

"Ordinary cables only achieve 60% ARTICULATION, and then only at one
frequency. MIT's new (insert name of new product) achieves close to
100% ARTICULATION at all frequencies across the audio bandwidth." (I'm
paraphrasing.)

Holy bullpucky Batman, I literally burst out laughing, and couldn't
even keep a straight face long enough to query the booth dweeb who was
hawking this malarkey.

Question is that did you say that with a properly oriented Y-axis? I
wouldn't want to have Articulation error....