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In rec.audio.pro,rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.marketplace , on Sat, 5 Mar
2005 13:28:27 -0500, "TimPerry" wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Agent_C wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Here is a cool device from Rane: http://www.rane.com/pi14.html make sure to download the PDFs. Peter but this is a harmless (and hilarious) spoof. not true snake oil at all I dunno about that, it looks like a blatant ripoff of the origial Funk Logic equipment. I think there could be a lawsuit here. Check out Mr. Logic's products on his webpage: http://www.funklogic.com ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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In rec.audio.pro,rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.marketplace , on Fri, 04 Mar
2005 10:27:15 -0500, Bill Van Dyk wrote: There was a guy who wanted to spend $350 billion dollars getting rid of WMD's somewhere. I heard he did very well. Lately, he's offering to improve everyone's pension plans! I recall his contribution to the field of audio. It was the words "Can you hear me now?" Jerry G. wrote: A number of years ago, I have seen something called a "CD Demagnetizer". Yet, there is nothing magnetic about an optical CD. The seller of this, really did some fancy explanations about this one. ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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"Ben Bradley" wrote in message ... In rec.audio.pro,rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.marketplace , on Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:28:27 -0500, "TimPerry" wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Agent_C wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Here is a cool device from Rane: http://www.rane.com/pi14.html make sure to download the PDFs. Peter but this is a harmless (and hilarious) spoof. not true snake oil at all I dunno about that, it looks like a blatant ripoff of the origial Funk Logic equipment. I think there could be a lawsuit here. Check out Mr. Logic's products on his webpage: http://www.funklogic.com like the Motorola "pushie talkie" (a mobile 2-way mounted to a hand truck with auto batteries) its a lampoon intended as humor not an attempt to defraud anyone. heres a jar with a ball in it http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5793477 &rd=1 is it worth $65,000 ? |
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"scott" wrote in :
One of my personal favorites...oh yeah....these look like a good investment...not! Tekna Sonic C-5 BookShelf Speaker Enhancer - Pair $79.95 Even the finest speakers have cabinet vibrations that make bass notes muddy or boomy, and distort the midrange. Now Tekna Sonic offers a simple solution guaranteed to improve bass and midrange clarity. C-5 vibration absorbers feature an array of polymer damping plates - selectively tuned to frequencies in the 20-1kHz range - which attach magnetically to the back of the speaker cabinet. This begs the qustion of how one magnetically attaches anything to a wood cabinet. r "Dave Kowalski" wrote in message ... How about those pyramid cones to isolate speakers from the mounting surface------ I've watched proponents wax on and on about which direction to put the point-speaker or surface... "Agent_C" wrote in message oups.com... I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Mine comes from Lyric HiFi here in New York, when they tried to sell me little coin size metallic stickers. At $250.00 each, they supposedly improved the sound by "dampening the field-effect resonance" on your individual components. What??? I could hardly contain my laughter! Then there was the afternoon at Sound by Singer (a more appropriate name for this rug merchant would be 'Sound by Swindler'), where he had a customer convinced his prospective $500,000.00 system was so precise, that one could actually distinguish between two identically titled CD's - by the subtle differences on the pitted surface of the disk. I'm not even going to start sharing what salesmen have said while trying to sell me cables... A_C |
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"play on" wrote in message
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:44:27 -0500, Boris Mohar wrote: http://www.amusicdirect.com/products...=280&sku=AELEV Nice... I especially like the cable elevators, quite reasonable at $159. The cheapskate alternative is telephone line insulators. I've seen and uhhh, "heard" them in *action* ;-) |
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"scott" wrote in message
... One of my personal favorites...oh yeah....these look like a good investment...not! Tekna Sonic C-5 BookShelf Speaker Enhancer - Pair $79.95 Even the finest speakers have cabinet vibrations that make bass notes muddy or boomy, and distort the midrange. Now Tekna Sonic offers a simple solution guaranteed to improve bass and midrange clarity. C-5 vibration absorbers feature an array of polymer damping plates - selectively tuned to frequencies in the 20-1kHz range - which attach magnetically to the back of the speaker cabinet. Hmm... I've never heard of these things but large enough lead weights screwed onto the mid-point of front, top and sides of cheap speakers would definitely lower the fundamental "oil can" mode of cabinet vibration. Of course, they would look awful... g Solution: brace inside properly. Cheers, Roger |
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On 2005-03-04 11:13:55 +1100, Mike Diack said:
And the winner is..... http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Me.../merchant.mvc? Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NOB_C37_C&Category_Code=V OLUME&Product_Count=2 Yep, if you will spend nearly $500 on one of these, you're a stirling, rockheaded knob... hence the product's name... |
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"Kai Howells" wrote in message ... C'mon man, what are you doing? There's no snake-oil whatsoever in anything you've just written! On 2005-03-05 12:02:22 +1100, said: http://www.rfcafe.com/references/ele...of_50_ohms.htm There are probably lots of stories about how 50 Ohms came to be. A group of maybe half a hundred engineers were trying to decide on a standard. They were all looking at the same data but arriving at different results. Finally one Englishman referring to the famous detective said: What we need is 50 Holmes |
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In , on 03/05/05
at 09:33 PM, Steven Sullivan said: lordy, it never ends.. http://www.soundstage.com/weaver04.htm (I've read tthat the green pen tweaks started as an online hoax.... taken as truth by some gullible audiophile...and the rest is history. I haven't been able to trace the story back far enough to verify that) Yes, I was there (on Compuserve). I wouldn't call it a hoax, just a joke. We were having some fun. I keep thinking that I can locate the thread on some old 8" floppies, but I never seem to find the time to go through them. As I recall, we cooked up the claims one December and products started arriving on the market in January. What a classic! It had a simple story that was just complex enough that it seemed plausable. When green magic marker types came around, they didn't want to listen to any explainations of why the concept was silly. If you couldn't hear the improvement .. er... well you were deaf and stupid. I even pointed out that, in order to interact with that green coating, the light must first leave the disk ... do you think the light is ever comming back? At that point they usually left because they couldn't stand my stupidity any longer. ---- Another of my favorites was a cryogenic process that claims to improve the sound of CD's. You were supposed to send your CD's, they'd be frozen in liquid nitrogen for a while, and you'd notice an improvement in the sound. I asked them if they could show me some error flag data, but of course they could not. ----------------------------------------------------------- spam: wordgame:123(abc):14 9 20 5 2 9 18 4 at 22 15 9 3 5 14 5 20 dot 3 15 13 (Barry Mann) [sorry about the puzzle, spammers are ruining my mailbox] ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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