more money then brains: audiophoolery

[subolg123]

http://bybeetech.com/?page_id=2

[steve30]

Quantum purifiers? What are they supposed to do? 

[Phaedrus]

Nice header image. Love the jpeg compression and stretched aspect ratio.

[madires]

A power strip for just $5495. 

[rexxar]

"Holographic power supply" 

[pickle9000]

In a totally sad world the guy believes everything he posted in an equally sad world it's a complete scam and makes money off it.

[elgonzo]

First, you have tears in your eyes laughing about these ridiculous claims based on ridiculous pseudo-theories.
Then, if you see somebody buying that stuff, you have tears in your eyes full of sadness, and all hope lost you once had for mankind.
...now back again to the other problems of the 1st world.

[elgonzo]

Quantum purifiers? What are they supposed to do? 

Uhh... Purifiying quantums, i suppose. Guess that makes the coffee taste better... 

[c4757p]

Quantum purifiers? What are they supposed to do? 

They purify your quanta, obviously. Duh.

For those all too common cases where you have a quantum, but it starts to drift into the real numbers...

Jack Bybee’s Quantum Purifiers were originally developed for military applications, many of which are still highly classified...

...as utter crap?

[dexters_lab]

madness

i dont know if the people behind these types of product are frauds or just genuinely deluded 

[FrankenPC]

madness

i dont know if the people behind these types of product are frauds or just genuinely deluded 

Frauds

[elgonzo]

i dont know if the people behind these types of product are frauds or just genuinely deluded 

Deluded fraudsters.

[FrankenPC]

At first I was like:  I can't believe this bullshit is legal!!! RAWWWRR!!

Then I realized that would make stupidity illegal.

Caveat Emptor.

[kc9qvl]

From their FAQ. 

Within any playback system, musical and visual information is transmitted by electrons flowing through conductors. As electrons interact with the conductive materials of cables and circuits, very low-level (quantum) noises are generated. As quantum noise energy accumulates in the propagating signal, low-level details pertaining to ambience, soundstage, timbre, dynamics, color fidelity and picture resolution are obscured, robbing the presentation of vividness and life.

Bybee Quantum Purifiers operate on the quantum mechanical level to regulate the flow of electrons that make up the signal (picture a metering light regulating freeway traffic flow). Current flow within the Quantum Purifier is unimpeded and ideal (think of the unencumbered flow of traffic on a lightly traveled expressway). During transit through the Quantum Purifier, quantum noise energy is stripped off the electrons, streamlining their flow through ensuing conductors. Unwanted quantum noise energy dissipates as heat within the Quantum Purifier rather than emerging as a layer of contamination residue over the audio/video information.

[station240]

Jack Bybee’s Quantum Purifiers were originally developed for military applications, many of which are still highly classified...

...as utter crap?

Yeah, and totally not a bog standard milspec resistor or capacitor with some black heatshink over it.

A fool and his money and all that, honestly people with more money than brains deserve to be ripped off for not seeing past this. The disturbing part is how many companies around the world stock these guy's 'products'.

[Phaedrus]

Quantum noise, eh? Hm, micro, nano, pico... What's below a picovolt? Drop a few orders of magnitude below that and maybe we might possibly see some quantum noise. I'd like to see how that effects your soundstage...

[madires]

What's below a picovolt?

Femto, atto, zepto, yocto, ...

[wraper]

Aren't those "quantum" fuses with a heatshrink on them?

[madires]

Wouldn't the quantum purifiers be defeated by the Johnson noise? Remember, the quantum purifiers convert the quantum noise into heat. 

[rexxar]

Wouldn't the quantum purifiers be defeated by the Johnson noise? Remember, the quantum purifiers convert the quantum noise into heat. 

I hope the leads are pure copper, who knows what the Seebeck effect would do to the purity of your audio colors!!!

[Corporate666]

If anyone feels like having their IQ assaulted by a herd of hapless morons, head over to the Audiogon Cables forum!

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1&ctg&0&50&

Fun reading for the whole family...

[senso]

There are a couple topics about that in diyaudio, one of them as more than 5000 pages, and there are people that believe what that guy claims, and yeah, used in submarine sonar systems..

[linux-works]

What's below a picovolt?

Femto, atto, zepto, yocto, ...

.....graucho, harpo, zeppo and ultimately......BOZO

"say the secret word and the duck will fly down and increase your dynamic range."

[G7PSK]

Beautiful, you can never prove they don't work. As they are a quantum purifier as soon as you try to measure anything all is altered.

[andtfoot]

Yep, quite well known about on DIYAudio.
From memory, one of the guys there pulled apart a variant and it turned out to be something like 0.1R resistor covered in fluff. Also measured it to be the same as a resistor.