They say they have a patent pending for that... wonder if it's true.
What are the patent regulations, does the patented invention actually
have to work, or can any crazy thing be patented?

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.

However, in practice, the rules have changed. Many patent claims are
allowed based solely on a description (which must, again in principle,
be sufficiently detailed to allow someone skilled in the art to
reproduce the invention as described) and no working model is ever
presented. It's also clear that many patent examiners are content to
accept the filer's explanation about how and why the invention works,
and that they're sometimes woefully ignorant of the actual state of
the art and of the existence of relevant prior art.

On the other hand, "patent pending" simply means that they've filed.
It doesn't mean that the patent has been issued, or has even been
allowed and is on the way to being issued. It's entirely possible
that most or all of their claims have been, or will be laughed out of
court by the patent examiner.

Even if they do have a valid patent claim in the works, there's
nothing definite to say that their flowery public description about
how their product is supposed to work, corresponds at all closely to
the wording in the patent claims. They might have filed a patent
claim for some narrowly-worded aspect of the design of this specific
product (e.g. a specific size and shape of the ripples), without
trying to claim wider coverage via a "utility" patent and its
description and claims.

--
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!

TimPerry 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.

Mark


hey that a new one! where can i see it?

http://www.xit.net/kenan/testimonials.htm

or google these keywords

"speaker cables" "off the floor"

its off the wall if you ask me :-)

Mark

"Jim Gilliland" wrote in message ...
David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
"Jim Gilliland" wrote in message...

And here's their latest innovation:

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/hallograph.htm

Oh my.... :-\

They've been in business for over a decade!


No wonder the political situation is like it is....

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:34:21 +0000 (UTC), Steven Sullivan
wrote:

the INTELLIGENT CHIP:
"Machina Dynamica now carries the amazing Intelligent Chip, an emerging technology device that improves CD sound quality
in the blink of an eye. The Intelligent Chip is a thin, 1-inch square orange wafer that automatically upgrades any
CD/DVD/SACD disc when the Chip is placed momentarily on the top surface of the player while the disc is playing."

OK, this is the MOST ridiculous thing I've ever heard...

However, someone should tell this guy he's got these way under-priced.
Anyone that would believe that nonsense would also be willing to pay
at least $1000 for one of them.

A_C

"Dave Platt" wrote in message
...
They say they have a patent pending for that... wonder if it's true.
What are the patent regulations, does the patented invention actually
have to work, or can any crazy thing be patented?

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.

Not often I get to use that bit of trivia.

dtk

Jim Gilliland wrote:

David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
"Jim Gilliland" wrote in message...

And here's their latest innovation:

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/hallograph.htm

Oh my.... :-\

They've been in business for over a decade!

The current "SBEM"* rate of 1 is still probably about the same as it was
in P.T. Barnum's day, so that would come out to about 1/2 a million new
SPEM's every year, or 5,000,000 SBEM in a decade. That's a healthy
market share.

*SBEM = "Sucker Born Every Minute"

Harvey Gerst
Indian Trail Recording Studio
http://www.ITRstudio.com/

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

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?

--
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!

Oh, I forgot to add...the clinical psychologist who first brought up this
business surfaced again a couple of years later, hawking the beautiful
audiophile recordings he had made. On a Sony PCM-F1. Digital.

But with the Apogee filters, right?

In article ,
Agent_C wrote:

OK, this is the MOST ridiculous thing I've ever heard...

I assume this means you haven't discovered the Time Cube guy?

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.

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:43:04 -0800, Agent_C wrote:

I'm sure we all have our favorite snake oil story...


When I was a kid back in the early 70's, I went with a fellow audiophile
friend of mine to BrandsMart which was a place where you needed a
membership card to get in.
We went to the audio section and they had quite a selection of equipment
there at all price ranges.

Anyway, my friend wanted to buy some speakers so we were audtioning all
the ones on this giant wall of speakers with this remote control thing
that allowed us to switch between various models.

He like the sound of some mid-line BOSE speakers, not the 901's, but some
box model like 601 or 301 or something like that.
We commented to the salesman who happened to be this black guy who looked
exactly like Nipsey Russel or Dr. J of the Nets that the sound seemed to
be coming from everywhere when we switched to the Bose speakers.

He blurted out in this 1970's ghetto accent "Maaaannnnnn THAT'S da TRICK
of Da BOSE"!!!!!

We quickly figured out that the "trick of the Bose" was having another 10
speakers playing at the same time!!!!!

I'll never forget it!!!

BTW he bought a set of Advents and the guy gave him a great deal on them,
but it was very funny at the time!



--
Glenn O'Toole

"Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire
and
master of the bagpipes"

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/
http://www.amusicdirect.com/products...=280&sku=AELEV
http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina27.htm
http://www.altmann.haan.de/tubeolator/default.htm
http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina28.htm
http://www.scamshield.com/Feature.asp?id=1



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

"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

oh yes... i wonder what a "Audio Consulting AC Isolation Transformer
($340 Installed)" is?

"TimPerry" wrote in message ...

"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

oh yes... i wonder what a "Audio Consulting AC Isolation Transformer
($340 Installed)" is?


And honestly... I haven't tried listening to many power conditioners lately, either.

"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote in message
news:esOVd.20090$QQ3.18031@trnddc02...

"TimPerry" wrote in message
...

"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

oh yes... i wonder what a "Audio Consulting AC Isolation Transformer
($340 Installed)" is?


And honestly... I haven't tried listening to many power conditioners
lately, either.

What's the best-sounding power conditioner for under... (oh never mind).

Neil Henderson

"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

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

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

Steven SullivanTweako amp designer Mark Levinson has been touting
those 'results' for some
years now...most recently in a published
'roundtable' in The Absolute Sound. The polite silence from the other
members
of the roundtable was rather telling...even TAS has its limits. "

I don't think Mark Levinson actually designs I think he's a marketer. I
know he's famous for a sex manual he wrote with wife Kim Cattrall. I
should say ex-wife... who buys a sex manual from a married couple who
broke up??

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

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

"Paul Stamler" wrote in message


Some of you may be old enough to remember the "deltoid test" flap. In
the early days of digital recording, a clinical psychologist (was his
name Diamond?) claimed that digital recordings agitated his patients,
while analog recordings calmed them. He proved that by employing the
"deltoid test", borrowed from chiropractic.

Very close. Dr. Diamond was a chiropractic doctor. The deltoid test is
apparently a pretty standard Chiropractic test

http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/16/14/31.html


In that test, the subject stands with arms outstretched; the
experimenter suddenly presses downward. Whether or not the subject
can resist tells the experimenter something about his/her muscle
tone, and presumably other things like stress level. The good doctor
found that when subjects listened to digital recordings, they showed
much lower muscle tone than when they listened to analog recordings.

The essence of the of Clark's retest was to perform the Deltoid test under
double blind conditions. This was printed as part of the notes from a
section meeting in Detroit.

Now, it's not entirely outside of the realm of possibility that
digital recordings might have subtle physiological effects. And it's
certainly possible that the deltoid test might be detecting real
physiological effects, whether or not they might be connected to what
the subject was listening to.

Under double blind testing conditions, the results were random guessing.

But when the doctor cautioned that it was well-known in the world of
chiropractic that the effects of the deltoid test would be skewed if
there was refined sugar anywhere in the room, that's when it was time
for the horselaugh.

Welcome to chiropractic. Nice people but you have to check your mind at the
door.

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

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. :-)

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

"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

In rec.audio.tech Steven Sullivan wrote:

Tweako amp designer Mark Levinson has been touting those 'results' for some
years now...most recently in a published
'roundtable' in The Absolute Sound. The polite silence from the other members
of the roundtable was rather telling...even TAS has its limits.

I was going to take offence at your claim of Mark Levinson being a 'tweako
amp designer.' After all, his stuff may have been outrageously overdesigned,
but it was solid, technical stuff.

Now I find that he's slipped into the world of glass bottles and magic
wire. Sigh.

In article .com,
wrote:

I don't think Mark Levinson actually designs I think he's a marketer. I
know he's famous for a sex manual he wrote with wife Kim Cattrall. I
should say ex-wife... who buys a sex manual from a married couple who
broke up??

My ex-girlfriend did. Waaaaait a minute.....


Francois.

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

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

In rec.audio.tech Colin B. wrote:
In rec.audio.tech Steven Sullivan wrote:

Tweako amp designer Mark Levinson has been touting those 'results' for some
years now...most recently in a published
'roundtable' in The Absolute Sound. The polite silence from the other members
of the roundtable was rather telling...even TAS has its limits.

I was going to take offence at your claim of Mark Levinson being a 'tweako
amp designer.' After all, his stuff may have been outrageously overdesigned,
but it was solid, technical stuff.

He didn't design anything. John Curl and Peter Burwen did the 70's stuff.
Tom Coangelo (sp?) did the stuff after that and who knows whose done the
design since. Chances are it wasn't Levinson.

This is typical of the 'high end.' Saul Marantz didn't design anything
either. Sid Smith and Dick Sequerra did the technical work for him.

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**

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

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:58:09 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"Paul Stamler" wrote in message


Some of you may be old enough to remember the "deltoid test" flap. In
the early days of digital recording, a clinical psychologist (was his
name Diamond?) claimed that digital recordings agitated his patients,
while analog recordings calmed them. He proved that by employing the
"deltoid test", borrowed from chiropractic.

Very close. Dr. Diamond was a chiropractic doctor. The deltoid test is
apparently a pretty standard Chiropractic test

It is also often used by Naturapaths and others...

Al

"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.

"Colin B." wrote in message
...
I figure that someone with an equal mix of cynicism and ethics decided to
get into the tweaker market, but decided to come up with something so
utterly
outrageous that they couldn't feel guilty about fooling anyone incredulous
enough to believe them.

That's my take, anyone so utterly gullible as to be fooled by crap so
outrageous, and has money to waste on it in the first place, deserves to be
conned.
The charlatan may have a better use for the money at least.

MrT.

wrote in message
oups.com...
I
know he's famous for a sex manual he wrote with wife Kim Cattrall. I
should say ex-wife... who buys a sex manual from a married couple who
broke up??

Even worse is buying a relationship manual like "Women are from Mars, Men
are from Venus" (or is it vice versa?) from someone who is divorced :-)

MrT.

"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.

wrote:

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"

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ha