No secret or special treatments except for endless piles of paperwork proving all the environmental tests were actually done. The worst was the AD590 for the tile temperature on the space shuttle, we had to maintain three different triple points traceable to NIST to .001 degree to transfer calibrate platinum RTD's in the tester. Every device was logged at dozens of temps after every step of the process.
Put a black hole into the signal wire!!
Quantum Slipstream Drive, Star Trek science at its best. Tell me this stuff doesn't sound just like Bybee's "explanation" of how his devices work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(science_fiction)
Esperado,
Most of us live in the free societies where nobody could be forced to do anything and all of us are free to choose what to say and what not. Did you forget about such elementary things?
When it comes to Johns position - either love it or leave it. Pushing the man and making silly remarks is inappropriate.
electroj,
Would you mind stating where in that last statement Christophe said anything silly or inappropriate in that statement. It seems that the only thing here in this democratic forum that we should stay away from is foul language and politics! Perhaps some have been unusually sharp tongued and relentless in their pursuit of a particular aspect to what John has said but that has been more to do with claims of the Blowtorch itself. If you make a statement of what is supposed to be fact it seems that you must be able to back up your statements. Otherwise this is a very free form method of exchanging ideas. We will never all agree on many things but many things such as ohms law and such nobody seems to be disagreeing on. It is just some outrageous claims that are being attacked without a clear defense.
Would you mind stating where in that last statement Christophe said anything silly or inappropriate in that statement. It seems that the only thing here in this democratic forum that we should stay away from is foul language and politics! Perhaps some have been unusually sharp tongued and relentless in their pursuit of a particular aspect to what John has said but that has been more to do with claims of the Blowtorch itself. If you make a statement of what is supposed to be fact it seems that you must be able to back up your statements. Otherwise this is a very free form method of exchanging ideas. We will never all agree on many things but many things such as ohms law and such nobody seems to be disagreeing on. It is just some outrageous claims that are being attacked without a clear defense.
We don't have to back up ANY 'stinking' statements with 'facts'. We just have to do something that WORKS and present it to the world. WHY, it works so well, might be below 'peer reviewed' explanations. It happens all the time with me, and if you want to achieve the audio 'success' that I have, you had better listen up and develop an 'open mind' to what cannot be easily explained by just about anyone. Trust me, the answers will come, but maybe only years later by others.
I won't bother googling it, when all I have to do is walk about 200 feet to another wing of the building.
You already know their position.
jn
Bybee is at least an honest snake oil merchant. These have existed from the year dot and are part of the rich tapestry of life. We all would be poorer (???) without them.
But what is particularly offensive are the pseudo prophets who pontificate ad nauseum about various tests and then either .... refuse to carry out their own tests on their own products ... or if they have results, refuse to release them on the grounds that the unwashed masses may misinterpret them.
These BS merchants are prone to name dropping, claiming they handed the tablets to Moses from a Blowtorch, talking about 'peer review' when its obvious they have no understanding of the term, blaming other people for obvious shortcomings in their designs ... and of course ceaseless self promotion that would embarrass even honest snake oil merchants.
As all my college teacher who have been around since the advent of Wikipedia have said, do not use that as a reference source! Wikipedia is a completely unusable source of technical information, it is never to be sighted in a paper for any reason. Will get you a nice grade reduction if you use that source.
John,
Not going to agree or disagree with any of this but it would have been at least an acceptable reference page.
Unconventional Superconductivity
Not going to agree or disagree with any of this but it would have been at least an acceptable reference page.
Unconventional Superconductivity
Aah, the flame wars are coming.. Fine, I have my flameproof trousers on
Although I replied directly to Esperado's post, my last two sentences were directed towards many here.
1. There have been numerous attempts to push John towards showing measurements.
2. Esperado in his post coplained about the same:
3. Here's what I consider to be a silly remark:
Do I have to waste my time to collect the evidence? We all have read the relevant posts in the past.Kindhornman said:
I will repeat myself - it's not our business what JC promotes and what not! It is also not our business to try to put any products JC promotes (or not) in any category.
This is his thread and we are guests here, we're supposed to behave!
Passive IMD Reduction...
Hello John, in this post http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/lounge/156700-jack-bybee-naq-never-asked-questions-5.html#post2015304 the following image is provided.
Could you please explain the test conditions and equipment.
The note on the image states that IMD is 'gone'.
Is this reduction in distortions what you and others subjectively perceive in high quality audio equipment, and what is the effect of the Bybee device in lesser quality 'mid-fi' systems.
Do you (or others) have any multitone IMD measurement results that you are able to provide please.
Passive IMD reduction in typical audio gear if true, would appear to be highly significant !.
Thanks, Dan.
Hello John, in this post http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/lounge/156700-jack-bybee-naq-never-asked-questions-5.html#post2015304 the following image is provided.
Could you please explain the test conditions and equipment.
The note on the image states that IMD is 'gone'.
Is this reduction in distortions what you and others subjectively perceive in high quality audio equipment, and what is the effect of the Bybee device in lesser quality 'mid-fi' systems.
Do you (or others) have any multitone IMD measurement results that you are able to provide please.
Passive IMD reduction in typical audio gear if true, would appear to be highly significant !.
Thanks, Dan.
The BQP has two terminals. It contains no power supply and, presumably, contains no Maxwell demons. Therefore it can only affect a circuit via its impedance. SY has measured its impedance and found no unusual behaviour.
The absence of a microscopic quantum theory for high temperature superconductors does not mean that they are not understood, just that they are incompletely understood. Some progress can be made via thermodynamics and the phenomenological theory of phase transitions. Above the transition temperature HTS materials are just conductors, and sometimes quite poor conductors.
Trying to connect BQP and HTS appears to be simply an attempt to blow smoke in our eyes. Connections with 'military science' carry little weight too, as the military is well known for spending money on bad science and rejecting good science. Just look at how many security agencies bought the spoof 'explosive detectors' which appeared to consist of a plastic box with two telescopic antennas and a disconnected random PCB inside. Dousing for explosives would have been more useful!
If the BQP does anything at all it probably acts a bit like a lossy ferrite choke. Measurements would show a rising impedance with RF frequency, but remaining not too far from resistive - more like a low Q inductor. If Bybee has got a material which does this better than existing ferrites then he has done something useful, so it is a pity that he feels the need to dress it up in mumbo jumbo for sales purposes.
The absence of a microscopic quantum theory for high temperature superconductors does not mean that they are not understood, just that they are incompletely understood. Some progress can be made via thermodynamics and the phenomenological theory of phase transitions. Above the transition temperature HTS materials are just conductors, and sometimes quite poor conductors.
Trying to connect BQP and HTS appears to be simply an attempt to blow smoke in our eyes. Connections with 'military science' carry little weight too, as the military is well known for spending money on bad science and rejecting good science. Just look at how many security agencies bought the spoof 'explosive detectors' which appeared to consist of a plastic box with two telescopic antennas and a disconnected random PCB inside. Dousing for explosives would have been more useful!
If the BQP does anything at all it probably acts a bit like a lossy ferrite choke. Measurements would show a rising impedance with RF frequency, but remaining not too far from resistive - more like a low Q inductor. If Bybee has got a material which does this better than existing ferrites then he has done something useful, so it is a pity that he feels the need to dress it up in mumbo jumbo for sales purposes.
electroj,
I can not answer to what is allowed here in a thread, I guess that goes to the rules of the forum and what the moderator will allow. But this is supposed to be a technical forum and not a sales pitch. If it is to push or sell a product shouldn't that be in the vendor's section? I have no real problem with John at all. I actually think that at times he has been very helpful to many. But he like any of us are going to be called on blanket statements of what are stated as fact, not opinion. We all have our opinions, right or wrong and we should really state them as such. You have also at times sent me in the correct direction to learn something and I do appreciate that. I have had to wear my fireproof big boy pants also in other forums. Been blasted by some with nothing but vindictive opinion and nothing to back it up. I assume it could happen to any of use starting a thread of our own. John seems to have some thick skin to take some of the personal attacks, I would not do that, that to me is just not right, but my momma didn't raise me that way!
Perhaps it is time to return to some technical discussions of fact that we can all agree to disagree about.....
I can not answer to what is allowed here in a thread, I guess that goes to the rules of the forum and what the moderator will allow. But this is supposed to be a technical forum and not a sales pitch. If it is to push or sell a product shouldn't that be in the vendor's section? I have no real problem with John at all. I actually think that at times he has been very helpful to many. But he like any of us are going to be called on blanket statements of what are stated as fact, not opinion. We all have our opinions, right or wrong and we should really state them as such. You have also at times sent me in the correct direction to learn something and I do appreciate that. I have had to wear my fireproof big boy pants also in other forums. Been blasted by some with nothing but vindictive opinion and nothing to back it up. I assume it could happen to any of use starting a thread of our own. John seems to have some thick skin to take some of the personal attacks, I would not do that, that to me is just not right, but my momma didn't raise me that way!
Perhaps it is time to return to some technical discussions of fact that we can all agree to disagree about.....
I will not follow-you on this way. A Blowtosch is a preamplifier that offer *real* services: amplification, volume tuning, choice of sources, power amp drive.
As far as i know, and even if i thing some choices are not so clever (like plain aluminum machined enclosure, or strange silver expensive cables) because they increase the price for no real audio benefit, omho, it is designed with accurate calculations, good choice of components and schematic, fully justified, powered by carefully filtered power regulators.
I don't believe it is the ultimate wonder of fashion, i am not appreciative at all for the quality/price ratio, but i'm sure there is nothing to complain about the way it sounds.
Now, how to say, i can understand the commercial bul*sh*t printed by marketing guys to promote the sales (i participated to such jokes at times), i don't understand the designer to believe in its own legend, or, as you say, to promote himself as a pure genius.
And i'm astonished by its ability to believe in audio black magic, or its attempts to makes-us believe.
Now, why such a hate ?
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