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"play on" wrote in message ... On 3 Mar 2005 13:25:07 -0800, "Karl Winkler" wrote: Jim Gilliland wrote: Agent_C wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Some of my favorite snake oil products have come from the Shakti company: http://www.shakti-innovations.com/audiovideo.htm They not only improve your audio, but the same technology will make your car run better! http://www.shakti-innovations.com/automotive.htm And here's their latest innovation: http://www.shakti-innovations.com/hallograph.htm Those things improve the sound in the room so much that they make it *look* like there's a violin in the room with you! Amazing. They had to have something real in the picture to give it some cred. Al the violin was just there to string you along |
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:13:55 GMT, Mike Diack
wrote: And the winner is..... http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Me.../merchant.mvc? Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NOB_C37_C&Category_Code= VOLUME&Product_Count=2 I prefer the magic laquer myself... although it is less expensive. http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Me...ory_C ode=C37 |
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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. Al |
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After seeing that link, I have to say that there should be government
regulations about audio equipment. I have never seen good physics of electronics be able to be applied in such a fashion! -- Jerry G. ===== "Mike Diack" wrote in message .. . 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 |
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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. Another one that I see from time to time, are AC cords for several hundred dollars that are supposed to make the sound more accurate, and have less noise. But, when questioned about the electrical system in the house, the seller of these did a lot of skating around the question. Many years ago, another one I saw was a special flashlight that should be shined on CD disk before playing it. The idea was to neutralize any optical noise patterns that can be formed on the disk. This special flashlight was selling for about $100. The replacement lamps were $10, and the enhanced batteries were something like $20 each. There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. -- Jerry G. ===== "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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On 3 Mar 2005 05:43:04 -0800, "Agent_C"
wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... I'm not even going to start sharing what salesmen have said while trying to sell me cables... I had a salesman try and convince me that the three foot RCA cable I had in hand wouldn't transfer S/PDIF info, because it was an analog cable. Not because it was the wrong type of connector (which it wasn't) but because the cable would only transfer analog electricity. I snickered all the way out of the store. jtougas listen- there's a hell of a good universe next door let's go e.e. cummings |
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In rec.audio.tech james wrote:
In article , TimPerry wrote: remember the "ZeroStat" gun for records? I remember that it worked quite well if you used it properly. And used improperly it also did a fine job of getting your kid sister out of your room. What do you mean "improperly?" Seems to me that that was EXACTLY the primary designed use for it. :-) |
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Here is one I made up once:
WAVE ENHANCE is an antispurious ion wave charged aerosol spray to improve the acoustic wave transmission in any normal listening room. Just spray this special aerosol formula before any intense listening session and you won't believe the improvement in sound wave transmission. Deeper lows, smoother mids and oh such sweet highs that give you the tingles. Many high end speaker manufacturers were spraying their listening rooms with our spray at the last CES. Only $12.99 per 12 oz can. OK, this was JUST A JOKE for all you guys who debate speaker wire and cable sound! Hope you enjoyed it. Now for some SERIOUS used audio deals please visit: http://members.aol.com/KDresch/audio.net.html |
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"Jerry G." wrote ...
There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi....cgi?item=PA-5 |
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In rec.audio.pro,
rec.audio.tech and rec.audio.marketplace, on 3 Mar 2005 05:43:04 -0800, "Agent_C" wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... There's the person who is posting to (among others) the pro audio newsgroup selling the "MP3's of the '70's", 8-track cartridges and record/playback equipment... A_C ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:15:56 GMT, John wrote:
... I confess to having a set of these ceramic doodads for my little Tannoys, bought soley because the Tannoy tech folks said they indeed were worth having. At $5 a set I wasn;t worried for the experiment. I'm still not sure if the black ones sound darker than the brown ones. If they do it's probably synesthesia. ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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In article , "Agent_C"
wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Thank you for again drawing attention to the few but prolific (like roaches) scammers here! Here is the summary of 'snake oil' scammers flushed out here, thanks to DEPUTY'S like yourself! PERIODIC LISTING-QUESTIONABLE SELLERS & UNLICENSED DEALERS & PROVEN SCAMMERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCAMMERS EJECTED FROM USENET BY GROUP ACTION -------------------------------------------- RANDYSSTEREOOUTLET.COM SOUND EMPORIUM AUDIO TWEAKERS TEKLINEAUDIO.COM & MR-CABLE.COM PERROTTACONSULTING & MUSICTOOLS-USA.COM DAVID & CAROL MORETTO THEAUDIODEPT.COM/DISCOUNTS-N-DEALS.COM/CARDIFFROSE.NET HOLOMAXX CABLES AUDIOESSENTIALS - TORONTO ONTARIO DOCDVD.COM SAVANT AUDIO JOSHUA CINTRON AND MARY MALLERY RICHARD MARKS DESIGN AKA GOOD AUDIO & aka TARGET HIFI KLJ TECHNOLOGIES GRESH AUDIO PUT SEUNSOM COASTLINE CABLES LOWTHERSPEAKERS.COM TREVOR STOREY - NEWARK MOON AUDIO HIGHERFI.COM SCAMMERS REMAIN, ALONG WITH THE DARK MASTER, ROBERT MOREIN. EVER VIGILANT! RANDYSSTEREOOUTLET.COM BOGGSTUBE (EBAY) RANDY AND PATRICIA BOGGESS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST RANDY'S STEREO OUTLET - WV ORDERS BUSINESS CLOSED **WEST VIRGINIA AUTHORITIES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST BOGGESS, TV REPORTERS CHASE HIM DOWN STREET AS HE HIDES LIKE THE SICK INDIVIDUAL HE IS*** WEBSITE AVAILABLE TO ORGANIZE THOSE SCAMMED AND GET THESE CHARLATANS PUT IN JAIL WHERE THEY BELONG - http://www.monkeyfreak.com/RSO.htm SCAMMER GIVEN SUSPENDED JAIL SENTENCE BUT APPARENTLY STILL ACTIVE -BEWARE! W ENTERPRISES NORTHWEST ----------------------- Maybe Mr. WENW Donald Winslow can explain why his corporate registration has been cancelled? http://sos-venus.sos.state.or.us:808...rch_inq.show_d etl?p_be_rsn=331097&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE Maybe he can also "explain" why the State of Oregon shows him going into business, and then out of business, at least three times! Business Address of 3439 NE Sandy Blvd is in fact a MAIL BOXES ETC maildrop. The city of Portland Oregon has NO business license and has begun an investigation. ACTIVE SCAMMER ALERT! --------------------- SOUND EMPORIUM -------------- Robert Benson Suzanne Manka Are the likely culprits, although they are hiding behind layers of anonymous email addresses. Service? Nope. Support? Nope. No phone number. No verifiable email address. Hiding behind sockpuppets and anonymous email servers isn't the hallmark of a "quality" vendor. Claims to offer "the consistently lowest price available on-line" "Consistently Low"? What a laugher. Others are far lower on Ebay and elsewhere. Except "Robert Benson" was ejected from TCInternet. Also ejected from Ebay, wherethey established another account and loaded it up with phony "praise". A known scammer tactic used to support the scam. The St. Paul city treasurer's office, can find no such business registered in St. Paul! The only two words people know with "sound emporium" is "certified scamsters"!!! Then there is what SENNHEISER USA has said: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "This outfit is not an authorized Sennheiser Dealer and as such we cannot guarantee the authenticity or the legitimacy of this product offering. I suggest you purchase your HD600 from one of our authorized dealers in order to secure legitimate, factory fresh product." Sincerely, Robert G. Douglas Manager, Consumer Electronics Sennheiser Electronic Corp. BOB MOREIN ---------- GUILTY of protecting scammers and fraudsters, and attacking those that have made such great strides toward protecting the innocent scammed by these frauds! Bob Morein is an unemployed and unemployable 40 year old alleged pederast living in his daddy's house in Dresher, Pennsylvania, a wealthy suburb or Philadelphia. He is conducting his life in a most unseemly manner; despite numerous entreaties from his father and recently deceased mother, he continues to live in the same sorry 10' x 12' room in Dresher, PA. The parent's proud jewish hopes of an intellectual son were dashed when he was denied a degree at Drexel University, and subsequently demanded daddy fund a lawsuit. . . A true vision of integrity (hahahahaha). And the courts found explicitly against Morein, showing him as the lying twisted individual we have all come to know. In fact, court documents point to witness credibility being critical to their decision. And keep in mind, this case was reviewed by appeals courts! These allegations have made him a new target for the lawsuits of those who have been subject to this slander and libel. Seems like there are many standing in line for their "pound of unleavened flesh" from this king of the charlatans and scammers.Registrant: Robert Morein 501 Edgehill Road Suite A9 Glenside, PA 19025-1238 US 2123888287 Registered at daddy's office, btw. HIGHENDAUDIO.COM ---------------- Owned by a pitiful shell of a man, Ted has had so many lines pulled from him he has decided to list used gear on his website. AUDIOBUYS --------- This seller has NEGATIVE rating on Ebay! No business license from District of Columbia, required for all retail sellers. ----------------- Not listed as authorised dealer, although he claims to have "new" products with no rational explanation. Manufacturers all deny he's a dealer Warranty? Stolen? Who knows? **RESULT: EJECTED FROM USENET** --------------- Not listed as authorised dealer, although he claims to have "new" products with no rational explanation. Manufacturers all deny he's a dealer **RESULT: EJECTED FROM USENET** |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:28:09 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
wrote: "Jerry G." wrote ... There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi....cgi?item=PA-5 Yeah that's the antenna, but there is another product that you would stick over the little speaker that was supposed to protect your brain waves from the cell phone waves. Al |
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"Agent_C" wrote in message oups.com... 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. Possible if the differences were not so subtle, ie. lots of C2 errors. Getting a new CD would cost less than $500K though :-) MrT. |
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"Harvey Gerst" wrote in message ... The current "SBEM"* rate of 1 is still probably about the same as it was in P.T. Barnum's day, I disagree, I think the rate increased during the baby boom, and therefore the total is a lot higher now than in P.T's day. MrT. |
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Here is one I made up once: WAVE ENHANCE is an antispurious ion wave charged aerosol spray to improve the acoustic wave transmission in any normal listening room. Just spray this special aerosol formula before any intense listening session and you won't believe the improvement in sound wave transmission. Deeper lows, smoother mids and oh such sweet highs that give you the tingles. Many high end speaker manufacturers were spraying their listening rooms with our spray at the last CES. THC in a spraycan! "Total 'Hancement Conditioner" -- ha |
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Mark wrote:
My favorites are those little teflon sticks being sold to audiofools to support speaker cables up off and away from the lossy dielectric plastic fibers in your carpet. Actually, those are just to make it easier to vacuum clean the carpet. -- ha |
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"hank alrich" wrote in message .. . Mark wrote: My favorites are those little teflon sticks being sold to audiofools to support speaker cables up off and away from the lossy dielectric plastic fibers in your carpet. Actually, those are just to make it easier to vacuum clean the carpet. NO.... You can't vacuum the carpet! The motor in the vacuum cleaner creates an electromagnetic field that will cause you to have to go out and spend $100,000 on little miracle devices to clean that horrible magnetic mess off of your entire stereo system.... if the salesman doesn't convince you first that you have to just replace the whole thing. You've 'exposed' the electrons to confusion and they're... um... well, confused! |
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"Mike Diack" wrote in message
.. . 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 Man, you beat me to it. |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:44:27 -0500, Boris Mohar
wrote: On 3 Mar 2005 05:43:04 -0800, "Agent_C" wrote: I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story... Here is my partial collection. About 0.01% of what is out there. http://www.amusicdirect.com/products...380&sku=AAQEV8 http://gallery.consumerreview.com/au...es/opus-mm.asp http://www.bybeetech.com/ ** Ahhh yes, those infamous Bybee Filters that use cooper pairs in a room temperature supercondutctor that know the bad electrons from the good electrons...... You can to the list, anything by Jon Risch. Regards, Bruce Hitting reply is futile, use the following: ). |
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Dave Platt wrote: In article , dt king wrote: In theory, a patented invention must be "useful", "novel", and "non-obvious". Most would say that "useful" requires that it actually work, at least to some extent. It used to be the case, long ago, that you had to actually build at least a working model and be able to demonstrate that the device worked. They say one of the simplest patents ever granted was for the number 1.65. It was granted to Phillip H. Smith as the optimum diameter ratio for a coaxial transmission line. Neat - that's the ratio which gives the lowest loss per weight/cost of materials given standard (WW II) dielectrics, right? It is a common mis-conception, but dielectric loss is not significant for most coax cables at frequencies below a few GHz. The copper losses are by far dominant. Teflon dielectric reduces cable loss because it allows the use of a thicker center conductor which reduces copper loss. http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/Coaxloss.cfm Mark |
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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! 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. |
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That looks like one of the ones I saw! I know of someone who bought one for
$20. Naturally he found no difference, other than that it looked impressive on his phone. Everyone was asking him what it was. After a lengthy explanation we were all laughing all the time. One thing of interest is that he met his wife with it, because it made for a good conversation at a local bar. He bought her one while they were dating. It was funny to see that. There was also one that looked like a little lady-bug. The women went for that one. -- Jerry G. ===== "Richard Crowley" wrote in message ... "Jerry G." wrote ... There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi....cgi?item=PA-5 |
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That sounds interesting. I assume that antenna does not matter with this
gadget! In fact where the speaker is, the radiation is of the least. It is at the antenna where most of the radiation comes from. Obstructing the antenna in any way will worsen the performance of the phone. -- Jerry G. ===== "play on" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:28:09 -0800, "Richard Crowley" wrote: "Jerry G." wrote ... There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bi....cgi?item=PA-5 Yeah that's the antenna, but there is another product that you would stick over the little speaker that was supposed to protect your brain waves from the cell phone waves. Al |
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You have to be careful with such jokes. Some scammer may find it interesting
and use it! -- Jerry G. ===== wrote in message oups.com... Here is one I made up once: WAVE ENHANCE is an antispurious ion wave charged aerosol spray to improve the acoustic wave transmission in any normal listening room. Just spray this special aerosol formula before any intense listening session and you won't believe the improvement in sound wave transmission. Deeper lows, smoother mids and oh such sweet highs that give you the tingles. Many high end speaker manufacturers were spraying their listening rooms with our spray at the last CES. Only $12.99 per 12 oz can. OK, this was JUST A JOKE for all you guys who debate speaker wire and cable sound! Hope you enjoyed it. Now for some SERIOUS used audio deals please visit: http://members.aol.com/KDresch/audio.net.html |
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In article .com,
Mark wrote: Neat - that's the ratio which gives the lowest loss per weight/cost of materials given standard (WW II) dielectrics, right? It is a common mis-conception, but dielectric loss is not significant for most coax cables at frequencies below a few GHz. The copper losses are by far dominant. Teflon dielectric reduces cable loss because it allows the use of a thicker center conductor which reduces copper loss. http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/Coaxloss.cfm Understood! However, the decreased losses come at a significant cost disadvantage - the Teflon dielectric is more expensive, and the thicker center conductor uses more metal and is thus both heavier and more expensive. My recollection is that the 1.56 diameter ratio (and a 52-ohm characteristic impedance) were selected because this placed the cable design in a "sweet spot" in the "RF loss per dollar spent making the cables" curve. Again if I recall properly (possibly not) this occurred during World War II, when the wartime economy required producing the military equipment as cost-efficiently as possible. Lower losses are certainly possible, using different characteristic impedances and different dielectrics, but (if I understand the story right) the materials and prices available back in the era in question were such that the lower-loss coaxial cable designs were restricted in their application. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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I can't believe no one has mentioned mpingo disks!
For $50 you get a coin sized piece of mpingo (ebony, for those of us who are less politically correct) wood with a chinese character engraved on it. You are supposed to place them (the more the merrier) on your audio components and scatter a few about the room. But, you must be careful whether you place the character up or down, and the angle at which you rotate it. Obviously, there is a lot of room for tweeking with these! Jonathan "Numb" Scull at Steamingpile - oops, I mean Stereophile, actually reviewed a $50k Boulder amplifier (makes rocks bigger?) and claimed the sound was lacking just that little something until he placed a couple mpingo disks on the amp. What I want to know is, how does one get to be a reviewer in Steamingpile? What are the qualifications, or are there any? What about the "Tice Clock"? It was a special, audio-grade, digital clock that you plug into the outlet with your CD player (or other digital components) and it somehow magically "cleaned-up" the sound! And what about "hospital grade" power outlets? Green Pens? Blue lights inside your CD player? Bi-wiring (buy-wiring?) speakers? It would be refreshing to see a few of the wealthier high-end audio companies get together and place a series of "educational" ads to teach their more gullible customers about what can and can't possibly have any effect on anything but their wallets. If the industry would police itself a little they might end up with more customers in the end. As it is, normally intelligent people (who are becoming fewer and fewer these days) see the BS promulgated by the scammers and just walk away from the whole thing. I guess even the big companies who have high-end product lines depend so much on the gullibility of their customers that they don't want to risk turning any of them off by revealing a little truth. With the average intelligence dropping at the rate it is, we'll all end up working for companies that make CD demagnetizers, green pens, and all the other crap that littlers the high-end audio market. |
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:28:51 -0600, kituyjkm fchg wrote:
It would be refreshing to see a few of the wealthier high-end audio companies get together and place a series of "educational" ads to teach their more gullible customers about what can and can't possibly have any effect on anything but their wallets. Never happen... They'd be alienating their dealers. A_C |
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Agent_C wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:28:51 -0600, kituyjkm fchg wrote: It would be refreshing to see a few of the wealthier high-end audio companies get together and place a series of "educational" ads to teach their more gullible customers about what can and can't possibly have any effect on anything but their wallets. Never happen... They'd be alienating their dealers. The "hocus pocus" of hi-end is truly amazing. I am not of the "all amps and wire sound the same" group, but there is a lot of hyperbole in this stuff. A well engineered piece is exactly that. I remember the VPI Bricks. I own their turntable (truly a great piece of simple engineering). Buy these 8lb wood encased laminated steel things, place them over your transformers and it "absorbed" stray magnetic fields. They were good for chasis 'dampening' at most. They made tremendous door stops, dumb bells, book ends, etc.. They did look nice on the equipment. But, I didn't hear any difference. None. And my system was not a mid-fi one either. The same with Tweek and Cramolin. Never heard any difference with use. As long as the connections on the pre/power amp were clean, it all sounded the same to me. I have heard differences in speaker cables though. Something in those MIT boxes..... |
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http://www.rfcafe.com/references/ele...of_50_ohms.htm
There are probably lots of stories about how 50 Ohms came to be. The one I am most familiar goes like this. In the early days of microwaves - around World War II, impedances were chosen depending on the application. For maximum power handling, somewhere between 30 and 44 Ohms was used. On the other hand, lowest attenuation for an air filled line was around 93 Ohms. In those days, there were no flexible cables, at least for higher frequencies, only rigid tubes with air dielectric. Semi-rigid cable came about in the early 50's, while real microwave flex cable was approximately 10 years later. Somewhere along the way it was decided to standardize on a given impedance so that economy and convenience could be brought into the equation. In the US, 50 Ohms was chosen as a compromise. There was a group known as JAN, which stood for Joint Army and Navy who took on these matters. They later became DESC, for Defense Electronic Supply Center, where the MIL specs evolved. Europe chose 60 Ohms. In reality, in the US, since most of the "tubes" were actually existing materials consisting of standard rods and water pipes, 51.5 Ohms was quite common. It was amazing to see and use adapter/converters to go from 50 to 51.5 Ohms. Eventually, 50 won out, and special tubing was created (or maybe the plumbers allowed their pipes to change dimension slightly). Further along, the Europeans were forced to change because of the influence of companies such as Hewlett-Packard which dominated the world scene. 75 Ohms is the telecommunications standard, because in a dielectric filled line, somewhere around 77 Ohms gives the lowest loss. (Cable TV) 93 Ohms is still used for short runs such as the connection between computers and their monitors because of low capacitance per foot which would reduce the loading on circuits and allow longer cable runs. Volume 9 of the MIT Rad Lab Series has some greater details of this for those interested. It has been reprinted by Artech House and is available. |
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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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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 |
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I forgot one- the little sticky tape dots that were supposed to battle
evil resonances in your equipment. I seem to recall a sand box to set your tube amp in- there was supposed to be some sort of mystical resonance between the sand and the glass envelopes that made it a particularly beneficial combination. |
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wrote in message ps.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 |
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"Jerry G." wrote in message ... 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. Another one that I see from time to time, are AC cords for several hundred dollars that are supposed to make the sound more accurate, and have less noise. But, when questioned about the electrical system in the house, the seller of these did a lot of skating around the question. Many years ago, another one I saw was a special flashlight that should be shined on CD disk before playing it. The idea was to neutralize any optical noise patterns that can be formed on the disk. This special flashlight was selling for about $100. The replacement lamps were $10, and the enhanced batteries were something like $20 each. There is another little gadget that I have not seen for a while. This one is the cell phone bug. It is supposed to reduce dangerous radiation, and give better reception. It looks like a little bug that the user sticks on to his or her phone, located near to the antenna. I wonder if this one was pulled from the market. remember the "CD stabilizer rings" ? here is one that isn't necessarily a scam.... but $30K for a cello audio suite? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...7100 694&rd=1 |
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On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:47:46 -0600, kituyjkm fchg wrote:
I forgot one- the little sticky tape dots that were supposed to battle evil resonances in your equipment. Sounds like a variation on what Lyric was pushing. I seem to recall a sand box to set your tube amp in- there was supposed to be some sort of mystical resonance between the sand and the glass envelopes that made it a particularly beneficial combination. Yeah, sand and audio equipment - great combo! A_C |
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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) -- -S It's not my business to do intelligent work. -- D. Rumsfeld, testifying before the House Armed Services Committee |
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and here's more about the Armour-All tweak brouhaha -- perhaps Mr. Atkinson can comment on its accuracy. http://www.soundstage.com/weaver06.htm -- -S It's not my business to do intelligent work. -- D. Rumsfeld, testifying before the House Armed Services Committee |
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