Author Topic: Taking Audiophoolery to The Next Level... (Read 14586 times)

karoru · « **Reply #25 on:** August 16, 2016, 01:52:51 pm »

Quote from: razberik on August 16, 2016, 01:00:55 pm

Quote from: dannyf on August 16, 2016, 10:53:15 am
"The only way to *really* achieve what he's aiming for would be battery supplies ..."
You should consider electro-chemical noise of batteries.

It's time we should start educating audiophool people about Johnson noise, so they will start putting their cables in liquid nitrogen.

I see new market in audiophile-grade liquid nitrogen delivery.

setq · « **Reply #26 on:** August 16, 2016, 02:04:36 pm »

Hopefully they'll fall in the LN2

CJay · « **Reply #27 on:** August 16, 2016, 02:23:48 pm »

Quote from: setq on August 16, 2016, 02:04:36 pm

Hopefully they'll fall in the LN2

Dipping them in LN2 improves the noise floor immensely.

setq · « **Reply #28 on:** August 16, 2016, 02:57:50 pm »

Quote from: CJay on August 16, 2016, 02:23:48 pm

Quote from: setq on August 16, 2016, 02:04:36 pm
Hopefully they'll fall in the LN2

Dipping them in LN2 improves the noise floor immensely.

Cyberdragon · « **Reply #29 on:** August 16, 2016, 03:26:55 pm »

"Here comes the sun..."

*ZAP* *"sun" burns out*

*GASP* "NNNOOOOO! My perfect clean-room, climate controlled, faraday cage, artificial outdoor environment for my speakers is RUINED! Must rebalance the electromagnetic feilds!"

*replaces blown bulb with magnetic carbon-filament wiggly bulb* (google "carbon filament flicker bulb") *oh, but this one is specially designed to have a pefectly balanced wiggle to ensure the electromagnetic fields are properly distributed throughout the room*

tatus1969 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 16, 2016, 08:12:24 pm »

if he wanted clean energy for his amp, he should have run it on batteries! O0

dannyf · « **Reply #31 on:** August 16, 2016, 09:41:44 pm »

"I've been fighting these audio crack smokers for years"

1. Can you find a better way to use your time?
2. Is it healthy for you to be so dedicated to this cause of yours?

setq · « **Reply #32 on:** August 17, 2016, 07:20:15 am »

1. This is usually in passing.
2. Yes. It's invigorating

Cyberdragon · « **Reply #33 on:** August 17, 2016, 08:02:06 am »

Didn't Dave go trolling up some audiophool forum at some time or other?

setq · « **Reply #34 on:** August 17, 2016, 08:36:15 am »

Interesting. I'd like to see that if it happened.

dannyf · « **Reply #35 on:** August 17, 2016, 11:14:22 am »

'Didn't Dave go trolling up some audiophool forum at some time or other?'

I wonder what a psychologist would say about that.

Kjelt · « **Reply #36 on:** August 17, 2016, 12:01:51 pm »

Everyone can be influenced, already with words. If someone tells you that this is going to be the best experience of your life, it is breathtaking and beautifull, then pulls out something that looks big and beautifull and shiny you are already being pre-programmed and are not able to do an objective experiment.
This was tested over and over. Even with highly regarded audio experts, they were fooled by vision. So the only true way to test something is a double blind AB test without seeing the equipment and switching instantaneously between the two setups.
This is never done in audio shows and fails the criteria every time, even worse, since you do not know the acoustic rooms, amplifiers and speakers you have 0 to compare it to.

Oh well, the same goes for so many other things in this world, winetasting the same problems and discovered when they mixed a red colour in the white wines of the expert test panel. They all failed.
Same in our branch probably, if the equipment has a HP logo on it everyone is starting to drool, if it has a Chingdong logo the mouth stays dry.

setq · « **Reply #37 on:** August 17, 2016, 12:09:24 pm »

Having dealt with HP enterprise and HP calculators over the years, the HP logo makes me sigh and reluctantly get the burned out credit card for another mugging

fubar.gr · « **Reply #38 on:** August 17, 2016, 06:41:08 pm »

According to audiofool physics it is possible to affect a low frequency signal by putting a stone or a piece of wood next to the cable carrying it.

If that really was the case, then it would be impossible to have high speed signals like HDMI or USB. Simply moving stuff around the room would be enough to make the device stop working.

setq · « **Reply #39 on:** August 17, 2016, 06:56:12 pm »

Well they sell $100 USB patches to cover that problem!

raptor1956 · « **Reply #40 on:** August 17, 2016, 10:01:40 pm »

Snake oil salesmen never went away, they just moved into audio...

Brian

Kjelt · « **Reply #41 on:** August 18, 2016, 07:49:48 am »

Quote from: raptor1956 on August 17, 2016, 10:01:40 pm

Snake oil salesmen never went away, they just moved into audio...
Brian

and second hand cars

Cyberdragon · « **Reply #42 on:** August 19, 2016, 04:03:35 am »

Did you know,

that for the price of some of this audiophoolery crap, you can buy an entire...DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE?!

(actually some trains are cheaper)

So if one had alot of money...

You know where this is going right?

*HOOOONK!* *CRUNCH!*

What good is your pseudo-science now?! Mwahahahahahaaa!

Brumby · « **Reply #43 on:** August 19, 2016, 05:04:47 am »

FLASHBACK

The Sydney Royal Easter Show is an annual show which is run by the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW. It is the major show event in Sydney and has become quite diverse in what you can find there. Regular attractions include judging of livestock, arts and crafts as well as carnival rides and the obligatory food items of questionable origin. As well, there are exhibitors of all manner of products from the blue stick that keeps your eyeglasses clear - even held over a pot of boiling water - and massive machinery. But one year has a particular memorable moment.....

I was walking through the Manufacturer's Pavilion when I thought I heard a train. This was strange as the nearest train line was miles away (at that time). Slowly, but surely, the sound grew more distinct ... and louder. The volume increased to such a level that I was looking around for the diesel locomotive! It built to such a crescendo that you would swear you were standing no more than 20 feet from the railway tracks as it roared past ... and then it faded into the distance.

I was drawn to the origin and came across a truly mouth watering sight.

Before me was a display of speakers and amplifiers that seemed 30 feet high and 20 feet wide. It was all there ... big bass bins, stacks of midrange, tweeters and horns. Amplifiers galore - all presented in a symmetric stereo stack, like a Manhattan skyline. It was pretty. It was impressive. (It was never seen again at the Show.)

How to have your Audiophoolery and train .... without the diesel smell (or is that part of the charm?)

Cyberdragon · « **Reply #44 on:** August 20, 2016, 12:10:32 am »

"Charm" would be to connect a high power stereo to a steam train. (You'd have to get a 32V DC to AC converter)

Then you take a bunch of people on a ride at max speed while you blast them with Ozzy.

EDIT: "audiobafoonery"

raptor1956 · « **Reply #45 on:** August 20, 2016, 02:00:39 am »

I mentioned back a bit that if you wanted to generate your own power to have total isolation from the grid that a Stirling engine and a generator with a huge flywheel would be the way to go. Stirling engines have a near perfect sinusoidal power output and the flywheel would integrate transients away.

Come on guys, how bout a Kick Starter where we build a, say, a 5KW Stirling generator and sell them to Audiophiles for ... $1M each -- Dr. Evil would approve...

Brian

setq · « **Reply #46 on:** August 20, 2016, 06:38:37 am »

Sign me up.

I'm starting to think that the engineers who design this stuff are fully aware they are just laughing the way to the bank. I'm also starting to be annoyed at my sense ethics that stops me joining them

Brumby · « **Reply #47 on:** August 20, 2016, 06:42:25 am »

Quote from: setq on August 20, 2016, 06:38:37 am

Sign me up.

I'm starting to think that the engineers who design this stuff are fully aware they are just laughing the way to the bank. I'm also starting to be annoyed at my sense ethics that stops me joining them

+1

The only consolation I take is that one day the universe will get them.

setq · « **Reply #48 on:** August 20, 2016, 07:46:20 am »

Yes, it will. My uncle, a nefarius rip off car dealer was killed delivering one of his own cars when the suspension collapsed on the front nearside wheel and he lost control of it. Rolled it three times and wasn't wearing a seat belt (because it didn't work properly).

Brumby · « **Reply #49 on:** August 20, 2016, 07:51:07 am »

Ouch.

That's Karma with a capital 'K'


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