John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

[DF96]

I will leave SY to explain to people with golden ears how solitons, a non-linear phenomenon, will enhance their listening experience. Or maybe that is how SE works - the non-linearity in the output stage launches solitonic audio through the speaker so the sound propagates undisturbed to their ears.

[SY]

I have in front of me a material which actually does conduct via solitons rather than electrons. P-type, in this particular case, so I guess it would be "solitons rather than holes." I'm afraid to use it in my system lest the lack of spin in the charge carriers cause the music to be reproduced with such stunning rhythm and pace that I succumb to the same fate as the little girl in The Red Shoes.

[PMA]

Where's John?

[SY]

Touting Bybees on Audio Asylum.

[Joshua_G]

Does anyone of those here mocking Bybee Purifiers ever tried one?
Anyone who laughs at something they didn't even try ridicules oneself.

[SY]

Yes. What's your point?

[SY]

Originally Posted by Joshua_G

Anyone who laughs at something they didn't even try ridicules oneself.

So I take it that you send your bank info to that nice Nigerian fellow? After all, if you haven't tried, you don't know it's a scam, right?

[DF96]

Before I buy something I either want good reports from people I trust, or a plausible(*) explanation of how it works. When it comes to audio I trust very few people, not because there is anything wrong with them but because I have heard of the placebo effect so I don't fully trust myself. The placebo effect still works even when you know it is working.

Other people may have the advantage of ignorance, or a post-modern mindset. I don't have those advantages.

(*) plausible = accords with the physics I know, or a reasonable extension of it

[Joshua_G]

Originally Posted by SY

So I take it that you send your bank info to that nice Nigerian fellow? After all, if you haven't tried, you don't know it's a scam, right?

What you write looks smart, while it only exposes your prejudice.

[brianco]

Originally Posted by Joshua_G

Does anyone of those here mocking Bybee Purifiers ever tried one?
Anyone who laughs at something they didn't even try ridicules oneself.

You are on dangerous ground Joshua....SY has made many measurements of these devices and despite his bias against anything with the whiff of snake-oil he has published his results on that thread.....if you search you will find a lot of information [.......maybe this testing is responsible for his late desktop being safe in the arms of......]

Of course anyone could pose the question "was SY, through the fact that he is not familiar with the practice of measuring what some would call magical effects as found outside strict schoolroom science, measuring the correct properties? I'll leave you to decide for yourself, but he has done the work. As for me? I don't care either way as I have plenty of other cures needed before concerning myself with audio magic/jewellery.