More 'Audiophile' bullsh*t

[Gary C]

Jinx said:

Gary C said:

That reminds me, must remember to buy some unicorn tears for my left handed dishwasher.

Make sure you get them from the correct eye - I once used some right eye unicorn tears - the results were too horrible to contemplate- ended up replacing the lot.

[Gary C]

telos-audio-macro-q

from the same website, I think I can detect where the products come from

"by detection circuit to detect noise initiative and send compensation correction signal, making irregular noise be offset synchronously, so it could offer a relatively stable USB transmission channel to offset the signal traction with causes by noise"

pure chinglish.

By the look of the 2020 accounts though, they don't sell that much.

Edited by Gary C on Thursday 24th June 15:38

[robbiekhan]

Do they sell wireless cables?

[LordLoveLength]

Gary C said:

Love the quote

"Today physicists understand electrons don't flow at all"

and

"to understand how electricity travels without electrons ever leaving their respective atoms"

Well, bugger me, not only is electrical transmission theory out of the window, doping silicon in PN junctions can't work either !

That reminds me, must remember to buy some unicorn tears for my left handed dishwasher.

Interesting because the ‘high fidelity cables signature magnetic rca adptors’ he sells for £509 has ‘helix design magnetic system which focuses electrons more accurately into the middle of the cable…’
I guess the resulting positive charge on the outside of the cable is somehow irrelevant. Or non existent.

[Gary C]

LordLoveLength said:

Gary C said:

Love the quote

"Today physicists understand electrons don't flow at all"

and

"to understand how electricity travels without electrons ever leaving their respective atoms"

Well, bugger me, not only is electrical transmission theory out of the window, doping silicon in PN junctions can't work either !

That reminds me, must remember to buy some unicorn tears for my left handed dishwasher.

Interesting because the ‘high fidelity cables signature magnetic rca adptors’ he sells for £509 has ‘helix design magnetic system which focuses electrons more accurately into the middle of the cable…’
I guess the resulting positive charge on the outside of the cable is somehow irrelevant. Or non existent.

Lol

[sociopath]

I see even chord are getting in on the snake oil now

https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-company-launch...

[TonyRPH]

sociopath said:

I see even chord are getting in on the snake oil now

https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-company-launch...

Chord have been purveyors of snake oil for longer than I can remember.

This isn't a new direction for them...

[Toltec]

sociopath said:

I see even chord are getting in on the snake oil now

https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-company-launch...

Is the carefully chosen material naval lint collected from indigenous Amazonian tribes that live in EM field free, environments?

[JimbobVFR]

Quite likely to damage the socket as well I'd have thought, what a bargain for £550

[thebraketester]

Haha. Brilliant. What a joke.

[ruggedscotty]

LunarOne said:

Zoon said:

How about £149 for a 13amp fuse?

https://audiocomav.com/synergistic-research-orange...

Did you read the FAQ on that? Directional fuses? Burn-in period?? Have they not heard of AC??? Well at least it's a change from directional speaker cable...

Okay.... so from the knowledge of an electrical engineer.... some of those definitions have a basis in reality, but not to where they are trying to pin it. the terminology sounds good though...

Directional fuses... Well they do have directional protection grading. this isnt fuses but more with distribution circuit breakers. Power in the town is usually done through rings. this gives you resiliance - it used to be an open ring and the switching was done manual so they could reconfigure the open point and sort out the effects of a power outage on a cable etc by reconfiguring where that open point was manually. They developed that and started to use directional breakers... this is a time graded breaker in a particular direction... the time to trip is controlled and it reduces in sequance in one direction. like wise the opposite happens on the other direction. The ring is run closed up. A fault happens and through that good old directional sequence the protection can quicly isolate the fault between the two nearest circuit breakers and maintain power to the unaffected sections. that teminology sounds good and impresses those that dont have a clue on the realities...why would you use a directional fuse in a hifi as there will only ever flow one way from the mains to the hifi.

Burn in, MTBF isnt it, if it fails in service in the first 500 hoiurs it was duff anyways, if it lasts more than that first 500 hours then its good to go. applies to complicated electronics more than a piddly fuse.

[mac96]

thebraketester said:

Haha. Brilliant. What a joke.

Disappointing to read that in What Hi Fi, without even the slightest health warning. You don't expect total objectivity, but that is ridiculous.

[sean ie3]

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers, they are floor standing Gale 30s, front ported, there is a bung in the back of them and I'm thinking that I could get about 5 or 6 kilos of kiln dried sand in each of them, thinking it would tighten the bass response. Anyone tried this and gotten a result?

[dudleybloke]

sean ie3 said:

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers, they are floor standing Gale 30s, front ported, there is a bung in the back of them and I'm thinking that I could get about 5 or 6 kilos of kiln dried sand in each of them, thinking it would tighten the bass response. Anyone tried this and gotten a result?

Icelandic black sand will add a smoother timbre and increase low frequency muon dissipation, but not on every third Tuesday.
This can be countered by adding 0.07433% to 0.07434% Titanium dioxide powder.

[tdm34]

dudleybloke said:

sean ie3 said:

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers, they are floor standing Gale 30s, front ported, there is a bung in the back of them and I'm thinking that I could get about 5 or 6 kilos of kiln dried sand in each of them, thinking it would tighten the bass response. Anyone tried this and gotten a result?

Icelandic black sand will add a smoother timbre and increase low frequency muon dissipation, but not on every third Tuesday.
This can be countered by adding 0.07433% to 0.07434% Titanium dioxide powder.

But that'll make a bit splashy in the transients every 4th Friday, you'll then have to add some powdered Squirrel tail to compensate.

[StescoG66]

sean ie3 said:

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers, they are floor standing Gale 30s, front ported, there is a bung in the back of them and I'm thinking that I could get about 5 or 6 kilos of kiln dried sand in each of them, thinking it would tighten the bass response. Anyone tried this and gotten a result?

If they are similar to the Gale Model 4 then that is a little sealed compartment in the bottom of the cabinet. Filling with sand yielded good results with them so worth a try, but just make sure it is bone dry. I recall a pair coming back years ago as the customer had put damp sand in the cabinets which then practically disintegrated......... lead shot is another good option.

It works well simply because it cuts cabinet resonances while adding a bit of mass low down to keep things anchored down better.

Powdered Squirrel Tail is just a step too far on this model........

[hyphen]

sean ie3 said:

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers...

Time to upgrade

[Gary C]

tdm34 said:

dudleybloke said:

sean ie3 said:

I'm getting a bit bored with my speakers, they are floor standing Gale 30s, front ported, there is a bung in the back of them and I'm thinking that I could get about 5 or 6 kilos of kiln dried sand in each of them, thinking it would tighten the bass response. Anyone tried this and gotten a result?

Icelandic black sand will add a smoother timbre and increase low frequency muon dissipation, but not on every third Tuesday.
This can be countered by adding 0.07433% to 0.07434% Titanium dioxide powder.

But that'll make a bit splashy in the transients every 4th Friday, you'll then have to add some powdered Squirrel tail to compensate.

What you need is some Triuranium octoxide (U3O8)

[Bullett]

Red or Grey?

[TEKNOPUG]

Bullett said:

Red or Grey?

Either as long as they are directional.