More 'Audiophile' bullsh*t

[tdm34]

TEKNOPUG said:

Zirconia said:

And the plug top fuse is still clipped in (two pre formed forks or bent metal to grip etc.). That has screws holding the stranded mains cable in by crushing it, that is plugged into a receptacle that has contacts that slide along the pin, that socket on a bit of twin and earth from the normally priced cable shop, that goes through another normally priced safety device then to the normally priced metering and then the public mains distribution through more stuff planted in the ground or hanging from your wall. The job of the fuse remains the same.

Same socket probably on a ring that feed the bread maker and TV etc. and inductive loads appearing.

Which is why High fidelity magnetic speaker cable adapters are crucial to the transparency of any high end audophile aparatus....


https://audiocomav.com/high-fidelity-magnetic-spea...

Afookin 4m XLR cable https://audiocomav.com/high-fidelity-ct-1-ultimate...
5m co-ax digital https://audiocomav.com/audioquest-coax-wild.html#/...

[Zirconia]

tdm34 said:

Afookin 4m XLR cable https://audiocomav.com/high-fidelity-ct-1-ultimate...
5m co-ax digital https://audiocomav.com/audioquest-coax-wild.html#/...

Wave guides! Blast from the past. e planes and h planes and points of zero energy when there was measurable power going in and coming out. Past the basic course I just accept it as witch craft but the up shot is I could measure stuff through a waveguide, see the effect of a poorly matched waveguide and make my own and see the result of attenuation. Dealing in the Ghz range though.

Edit (TV transmission stuff not cables just in case it reads like cables)

Edited by Zirconia on Saturday 7th December 16:35

[red997]

tdm34 said:

Afookin 4m XLR cable https://audiocomav.com/high-fidelity-ct-1-ultimate...
5m co-ax digital https://audiocomav.com/audioquest-coax-wild.html#/...

Do people really buy this crap ?!
more money than sense, as my late Dad would say

[Deranged Rover]

swisstoni said:

I used to read all the HiFI mags and I remember that one journo (Ken Kessler if I recall) had his ‘listening room’ done out to the state of the art at the time.

Apart from some structural stuff like suspended floor he had the electricity board put a mini sub-station at the end of his garden!

I think that was one of my ‘this is bks’ moments.

Separate consumer unit and foo wiring, but no mention of a substation...

https://www.hifinews.com/content/ken-kessler

The substation seems to be the Japanese audiophile nutters:

https://gizmodo.com/obsessed-audiophiles-in-japan-...

[Driller]

Has this been posted here yet? Goes a long way to explaining all this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0&feat...

[NDA]

dudleybloke said:

I tried a high-end transparent aluminium nanotube fuse and it added an earthy tibre that reminded me of a chesterfield suite and cigars.

Yes - as if a thin veil of gauze had been removed from my ribbon tweeters. The nanotube stereo soundstage had me looking down the horn of Coleman Hawkins - I had been transported to that smokey New York club scene, with all the fixed positioning coherence that only the aluminium tubes can provide.

[Heres Johnny]

Has anyone tried listening in a room filled with pure nitrogen?

Its meant to work for tyres, and the reduction in moisture content may create a more pure soundwave

[Flooble]

Heres Johnny said:

Has anyone tried listening in a room filled with pure nitrogen?

Its meant to work for tyres, and the reduction in moisture content may create a more pure soundwave

Depends how long the piece of music is I guess

[Dromedary66]

Driller said:

Has this been posted here yet? Goes a long way to explaining all this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0&feat...

Very interesting, I especially like that even when you know what is happening, it still works.

[AW111]

Flooble said:

Heres Johnny said:

Has anyone tried listening in a room filled with pure nitrogen?

Its meant to work for tyres, and the reduction in moisture content may create a more pure soundwave

Depends how long the piece of music is I guess

4:27 ?

[swisstoni]

Deranged Rover said:

swisstoni said:

I used to read all the HiFI mags and I remember that one journo (Ken Kessler if I recall) had his ‘listening room’ done out to the state of the art at the time.

Apart from some structural stuff like suspended floor he had the electricity board put a mini sub-station at the end of his garden!

I think that was one of my ‘this is bks’ moments.

Separate consumer unit and foo wiring, but no mention of a substation...

https://www.hifinews.com/content/ken-kessler

The substation seems to be the Japanese audiophile nutters:

https://gizmodo.com/obsessed-audiophiles-in-japan-...

Fair enough. I was remembering a 25y/o mag article so I’m taking a Mulligan on that one.

I even remember Kessler’s Custom Car stuff. Just a good writer IMHO.

[NDA]

swisstoni said:

Fair enough. I was remembering a 25y/o mag article so I’m taking a Mulligan on that one.

I even remember Kessler’s Custom Car stuff. Just a good writer IMHO.

I worked on the Haymarket hifi mags in the early 80's... there was some classic stuff going on at the time - in terms of directional cables and all that sort of thing. Great fun.

[MissChief]

Heres Johnny said:

Has anyone tried listening in a room filled with pure nitrogen?

Its meant to work for tyres, and the reduction in moisture content may create a more pure soundwave

I have. For about twenty seconds it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. When I woke up in the hospital I had to tell everyone what I'd heard.

[bristolracer]

NDA said:

I worked on the Haymarket hifi mags in the early 80's... there was some classic stuff going on at the time - in terms of directional cables and all that sort of thing. Great fun.

I was asked by a customer to install some directional cable for him. He was paying some silly amount for this cable in an effort to get the most out of his system.
His music source? A Sonos connect streaming spotify
Garbage in/garbage out was my thought.

Edited by bristolracer on Saturday 7th December 20:00

[jontykint]

AW111 said:

Flooble said:

Heres Johnny said:

Has anyone tried listening in a room filled with pure nitrogen?

Its meant to work for tyres, and the reduction in moisture content may create a more pure soundwave

Depends how long the piece of music is I guess

4:27 ?

4:33 ?

[AW111]

jontykint said:

4:33 ?

Dammit, I was going to google it, but went with my dodgy memory instead.

[kayc]

Good piss-taking thread this that makes me laugh as a lot of this 'stuff 'is clearly ridiculous..i would just ask though anyone posting actually own a decent hi-end system or even heard one?

[Zirconia]

Mine is on a stand, looks high to me.

Edit. No, wait, the cables are on the floor. Oh noes! But it is a wooden floor and the oil of snake comes in wood cable rests. I am saved.

[Heres Johnny]

kayc said:

Good piss-taking thread this that makes me laugh as a lot of this 'stuff 'is clearly ridiculous..i would just ask though anyone posting actually own a decent hi-end system or even heard one?

Define decent - I’ve had kef reference speakers that took 2 people to lift one, a naim rack of pre, multiple power, not to mention power supplies for the pre, tried hand made power amps and power supplies, speaker cable that was also used on the space station, interconnect I changed depending on what music, and everything from vinyl to 24/96 digital files

And somebody said something to me one day without realising how insightful they were. Was I listening to the Hi-Fi or listening to the music.

The law of diminishing returns kicks in for me in absolute terms and it became a case of chasing around different characteristics. Which is why I find some of it all a bit absurd at the highest end because even if you can hear a difference, it’s rare you can say which is genuinely better in all case and all music

[NDA]

kayc said:

Good piss-taking thread this that makes me laugh as a lot of this 'stuff 'is clearly ridiculous..i would just ask though anyone posting actually own a decent hi-end system or even heard one?

Yes... and I had a recording studio for many years. My hearing is now a bit knackered, so I don't bother too much.

There's high end and then there's audiophile bullsh*t... they do overlap a little.