Funniest snake oil theories

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Isn't that only if rca is connected to chassis at source end? The shield is just an extension of the receiver's chassis

Well single ended audio return will be connected to PE* at some point so you have to assume that any potential difference between chassis will be on that RCA. If this is a problem or not of course depends on many things, all of which are in the realms of normal engineering ;)

*Yeah I know there is 2 pin audio stuff, which may actually be a better way for source.
 
You can load a gun and fire it and it will not do anything beyond what chemistry and physics says it will do.

Until we realize it does! Before Newton we all believed the apple fell to the earth. Then a brilliant man realized that as the apple falls to the earth, so too does the earth fall to the apple. We couldn't see the earth fall to the apple and certainly couldn't measure it. But that didn't make it wrong. Who knows what occurs when a gun fires in realms we haven't identified yet nor learned how to measure.

I'm not saying I think the Bybee products aren't snake oil, but I think we'd all be well served by a little humility and open mindedness. We can't measure everything there is to measure, and it's those with an open mind who actually DO win Nobel prizes (read Bronowski). Again I'm NOT saying this notion applies to Bybees or any other product, but there's a lot of rigid rhetoric being thrown about here by people who clearly won't win a Nobel no matter how hard they try.
 
Carlp, I realize that you have probably never will even try a Bybee device, but at least you don't condemn one without serious evidence that it is not what it claims to be or do. That is all one could ask of anyone here.
Those who condemn it, should at least know what they are 'condemning' before they go off on something they don't believe can be possible or useful. This is what is missing.
 
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Carlp, I realize that you have probably never will even try a Bybee device, but at least you don't condemn one without serious evidence that it is not what it claims to be or do. That is all one could ask of anyone here.
Those who condemn it, should at least know what they are 'condemning' before they go off on something they don't believe can be possible or useful. This is what is missing.

The nonsense on the website alone does the job for us.
 
Carlp, I appreciate your insistance that one needs to approach new phenomena with an open mind, totally.

However, the Byebees are first of all not a phenomenon since nobody has ever demonstrated that they do anything at all. John has some 'measurements' which, frankly, do not pass muster. And then there is a German article that also does not seem to rely on anything real being measured. The only fact that is produced by this 'phenomenon' is that some claim to hear the difference, but these claims are done in such a way that they are utterly unreliable because they can never be verified.

So, the Bybees are not just not a phenomenon, but furthermore, to work, they would have to go against first principles. Only nothing can do that. And since the Bybees are something, they can't.
 
Carlp, I realize that you have probably never will even try a Bybee device, but at least you don't condemn one without serious evidence that it is not what it claims to be or do. That is all one could ask of anyone here.
Those who condemn it, should at least know what they are 'condemning' before they go off on something they don't believe can be possible or useful. This is what is missing.

Extraordinary claims without the commensurate extraordinary evidence can and should be dismissed out of hand.

You should know that and once the evidence is supplied I will entertain the thought that they work as prescribed and I would even buy a couple.
Until then this is just farting in the wind.
 
...but at least you don't condemn one without serious evidence that it is not what it claims to be or do. That is all one could ask of anyone here.
:) You are having a laugh.
You know very well that this is a terrible strategy for life in general. Being credulous has gotten individuals and mankind in to so much trouble.
I guess in this thread it's a bit of harmless fun to encourage bad thinking. Let's keep it in here.
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I have a pot of yogurt which sounds really nice.

When it is not around it doesn't sound so good.

In fact I've got indisputable evidence that I'm more depressed when that pot of yogurt isn't around.

But that doesn't mean that the pot of yogurt improves my sound system as it should.

I believe if you'll check that, it rhymes.
 
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aaand here is the latest, guy offers a service for positioning your stuff in a way, that the earth's verry strong magnetic field does not induce noise. claims an improvement of at least 3 times in sounf quality. a special service will allso align computer cables and harddrives to prevent the magnetic fields ruining your sound quality , as with every single playback, the content of the harddrive will detoriate .

only costs ~200 euro / hour, and you pay the guy going to your home by this hour rate.
pics needed, you gotta pay upfront.

and i did see some lunatics claiming it WORKT.
 
I'm not saying I think the Bybee products aren't snake oil, but I think we'd all be well served by a little humility and open mindedness.

Here's the list be my guest and please point out the winners with no serious credentials, no previous published work, presented results with indecipherable jargon, provided no independently verifiable results, and whose award totally overturned much of known physics.

All Nobel Prizes in Physics
 
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Here's the list be my guest and please point out the winners with no serious credentials, no previous published work, presented results with indecipherable jargon, provided no independently verifiable results, and whose award totally overturned much of known physics.

All Nobel Prizes in Physics

Some have been long in the making. Niels Bohr in 1975; Jack Kilby no earlier than 2000!

In comparison, the Ligo was awarded immediately. Is that a new trend?

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