What happens if you have a Shatki stone sitting beside your speaker cable demagnetizer while you are demagmegnetizing your cables (ie unit is ON) AND while you are demagnetizing your DVD's ? Has anybody tried this ? What would happen if you had a power line conditioner - would this change things ?
Too bad you will never understand the real world around you. Why the big chip on your shoulder, John? Has life really been all that bad for you? You seem to project disdain for anyone with a differing viewpoint than yours, rather than provide details as to your disagreement.
Why don't you tell us how the resistance of copper is affected by impurities? You've already impuned most of the sceptics credentials, so why should we try to demonstrate our knowledge, when it is obviously (to you) completely bogus? How about calculating the activation energy for generating a tri-vacancy in a copper crystal lattice and comparing that to potentials available describing the microvolt signals of distortion you attribute to these defects?
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I see your point, fair enough. -
Okay then, let's pretend it costs a hundred bucks to put one of these gizmos together. Then you have a very shiny and highly polished ... turd. This intelligent gentleman is giggling himself to death all the way to the bank because he just sold some brass plated turds to a bunch of nincompoops. - at about a $500 profit for each one.
I still think he means it in jest. This item is not to be taken seriously.
There is just far too much of this going on. I've been spending most of my time over the past six months trying to understand money and law. It seems that our society is built on this sort of thing - its as American as Apple Pie. I'm a Canadian, but we are the same up here.
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You're like that proverbial monkey with his hand caught in a bottle. You just can't let go of that shiny but worthless token even when the trappers show up with big sticks.
None of these worthless measurements matter for squat when you, nor anyone else, can show that you hear a difference between burned in and non burned in conductor.
You my friend have been fooled. You can't show even yourself that you are able to hear a difference between burned in and non burned in conductor. Believe in science, not magic. All you have is obtuse and worthless measurements, which matter zilch to what the human ear can resolve, and brain can perceive.
I'd say you're opening a completely new can of worms. It begins the question of whether we as individuals, or a government are responsible for obtaining knowledge and making wise choices. If this man were bilking folks out of their life savings, then yeah maybe someone ought to step in, but this is just a classic example of a fool and their money being easily parted. He could argue that he is selling hope and dreams to make people feel good, which is indeed a commodity worth exchange. Me, I'd rather read a book or see a movie.
People do have a fiduciary duty when they claim to operate in trust and in the best interest in others. So when someone has a claim that their knick-knack will actually improve the lives of its purchaser, they should have a reason to believe it themselves, if not held to the standard of being required to prove it.
5:1 retail to BOM cost is quite standard in almost every manufacturing industry. The problem here is not the profit margin, it's the exploitation of gullibility, fantasy, and technical ignorance.
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Agreed save for the last part. 'Exploitation' posits intent to defraud on Hagerman's part without any evidence. I have no use for the product, that has no bearing on whether Jim's intentions are honest. Given his other products and his input on forums I believe they are.
Worse still many who haven't the technological chops to build one of his kits get mob mentality and hop on the 'audiophool' abuse train. If a position isn't based on evidence and knowledge, it's something else. Might feel good, but it's still something else.
I don't know what product you're talking about but "proof a audible benefit" isn't a requirement to sell audio gear. If it was we would all be listen to Bose.
This is the 'pitchfork wielding villagers' syndrome. SY appears to be whipping up hatred for someone who makes a product that he does not believe in. I believe in the product, but what do I know? I have my own personal cable break-in generator, originally designed by my former business partner and built for him, so I could care less about another break-in box, but why the hatred and dissent? Why not hate me? I am here, I can defend myself, (more or less) and I am a bigger target. Chicken? ;-)
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