Funniest snake oil theories

[john curl]

Was that the place near the freeway with the tall smoke stack?

 

[jacco vermeulen]

think better ways

One Silver Phantom on a stand at every corner of a swimming pool, wireless signal transmission with only a mains socket requirement, doesn't sound half bad.

 

[Triodethom]

It sounds better without the inductor, yet you have to add a distributed inductor (known as a peculiar cable) in order to feed a speaker across the room. Is that an example of good design?

To get such a high inductance and low capacitance probably requires quite a wide spacing in the cable - I calculate an RF characteristic impedance of 250ohms. That could be quite good at picking up RF interference and feeding it back to the amp.

Rather close to the old 300 ohm unbalanced antenna cable then ? Based on length then what radio station it would be tuned to . This could be of very bad luck if a strong station of the undesired frequency happen to be in range . You have pointed out the most often ignored source of a far too common problem . RF on the output . Regards

 

[31697B]

Was that the place near the freeway with the tall smoke stack?

Possible. Lab is not far from freeway and they may have even increased the capacity to disperse or 'process' the tritium since we started it.


-RNM

 

[billshurv]

I don't use an inductor either, but my design topology is not as sensitive to cables, as Julian Veriker(sp), the founder and designer, of the Naim amps. It was what Julian found to sound better, about a decade before me. Does Nelson use output inductors? How about Charles Hansen? Anybody with an outstanding reputation in successful audio design?

However on 26/12/2013 you did say

I have a total measured inductance of about 0.4uH, over 100V/us.
I have done over 500V/us with 2uH in the past. Actually, it is NOT usually REAL INDUCTANCE, like a coil, but the internal rate of change in gain with frequency, which mimics real inductance.

Which is interesting as you clearly have decided that trading off slew rate to remove the need for a coil above output cable inductance is a good thing. Would be keen to hear more on that as it got lost in a beer fuelled discussion at the time.

 

[scott wurcer]

Possible. Lab is not far from freeway and they may have even increased the capacity to disperse or 'process' the tritium since we started it.


-RNM

I thought you were supposed to kill us if you talked about this stuff.

 

[kaputt]

Products
I had a look through the site and am not quite sure what these "sleeves" are doing. Also I am a bit uncertain on how to use them but believe cables are supposed to go through these.

 

[billshurv]

Technical

 

[marce]

Real chambers...
http://www.magnetic-shield.com/pdf/ZG-3-broch-spread-web.pdf

As to the Z-shield pure BQP level BS of the highest order, I expect a glowing report on Audiostream soon from the ************************************* that runs it...

 

[Triodethom]

So how much for the audiophile special degaussing tool need to cleans the z chamber of bad voodoo waves ?

 

[Michael Bean]

So how much for the audiophile special degaussing tool need to cleans the z chamber of bad voodoo waves ?

If you have to ask...you can't afford one.

Mike

 

[gray5596]

Quote from their site "The Z sleeve reduces distortion and focuses the signal just before it goes into the speaker..."

So unless my signal is focused, I will have distortion? I must focus my signal, but I wonder if they will accept bitcoins?

 

[Trileru]

So how much for the audiophile special degaussing tool need to cleans the z chamber of bad voodoo waves ?

Watch Tools Screwdriver and Tweezers Demagnetizer Demagnetize Repair Kit Tool | eBay

 

[jcx]

why don't people just go direct to domain experts rather than do so much ill informed, idle speculation?

https://www.google.com/#q=vodou+mambo+houngan+on+the+internet

 

[DPH]

I thought you were supposed to kill us if you talked about this stuff.

As a former employee of the aforementioned lab, this cracks me up to no small extent.

Probably the high incidence of melanoma is from the fact that most of us there were/are pasty white and only see the rather intense East Bay sun in large, albeit extremely rare, doses.

The electron's kinetic energy varies, with an average of 5.7 keV, while the remaining energy is carried off by the nearly undetectable electron antineutrino. Beta particles from tritium can penetrate only about 6.0 mm of air, and they are incapable of passing through the dead outermost layer of human skin.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

*Someone didn't do his research on tritium decay (beta decay which doesn't have the necessary penetration depth at this energy level to be dangerous). I'd expect lung/mouth/throat cancer, anyhow, given penetration depths.

 

[Triodethom]

Audiophile blessed up graded version 699.99 on sale for 399.99 while supplies last.

 

[Triodethom]

different voodoo is not vodou .

 

[Charles Darwin]

Audio snake oil is just part of the global process of reionizing electrons.

http://sebpearce.com/********/



Some background:
Acceptance Of Profound-Sounding "Bullsh*t" Linked To Lower Intelligence | IFLScience



PS: The stars in the link spell out lower case BS

 

[SY]

You may have uncovered KBK's secret.

The temporal differential we call consciousness is the cosmic interaction of subatomic particles operating in the quantum field, the (quantum)leap represents a fundamental universal constant that we can only speculate upon in the macro scale of wave form frequencies.

 

[TheGimp]

Statistically speaking, 50% of the population has an IQ of less than or equal to 100.

I have had people try to argue with me that most people are smarter than that.