I found somewhere in that mess of Ebay "offers" and claims & counterclaims.........a notation that the Schematics would be available for auction at such and such date...??????????? I guess everything's for sale.
This sounds REALLY fishy!
_______________________________________________________Rick.......
This sounds REALLY fishy!
_______________________________________________________Rick.......
No, It's in Japanese Yen! ...
_______________________________________________________Rick....
_______________________________________________________Rick....
I got a reply 😱 no mention of my offer of fish but I cut and pasted his reply, here's what he said -
esponded to your question about this item
Dear 9250davidm,
Oups the wiring has been forgotten.
Thank you for pointing out.
Aetoulis
On 11/20/13, eBay Member: 9250davidm
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Dear aetoulis,
NICE amp, I see it has invisible wiring!
price a bit ambitious, would you take payment in fish? I have some nice farmed salmon to exchange if you want it.
- 9250davidm
Reply in your email program or through My Messages
I just don't get some people, I thought my offer was more than fair 🙄
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What killed him?
That reminds me of a G.W joke.
An advisor interrupted Bush to say that three Brazilian troops had just died, to his horror Bush went to pieces, howling, tears streaming down his face.
When he had recovered a bit, Bush turned and asked.
Just exactly how many is a Brazilian?
You realize you should have shielded housewire feeding your hi-fi stereo system! Sure...
Well, BX cable has a spiral armor wrapped around a twisted pair of current carrying wires. Looks a bit like microphone cable on steroids. 😀
Well, BX cable has a spiral armor wrapped around a twisted pair of current carrying wires. Looks a bit like microphone cable on steroids. 😀
I have the little black Dayton iPhone mic, if that's what you mean. Cost about $16. I haven't made any recordings with it, maybe I should. 🙂 I suspect it's a Panasonic capsule or clone. Just like in most camcorders.
Lord Lucan invented the audio demagnetizer many years ago, he found to his astonishment, that when he demagnetized the speaker drivers in his radiogram, he got a completely silent back ground, middle ground AND foreground. In fact he got total silence!
Unfortunately he then sat on it by accident and has not been seen since.
Unfortunately he then sat on it by accident and has not been seen since.
Here's one for power cord fanatics.
Silver SuperKord Signature-SD II : product details The Silver SuperKord Sig...
Silver SuperKord Signature-SD II : product details The Silver SuperKord Sig...
no theory. Just proof snake oil comes to New Zealand. Where we don't have any snakes.
HiFi-TUNING Silver Fuse set - Plinius SA250 | Trade Me
HiFi-TUNING Silver Fuse set - Plinius SA250 | Trade Me
Funny, because I got one of those gold plated fuses on some HIFI show and using it in my hair drier 🙂 really It DOES work, my hair never been so soft and dry
😱
". Easily heard, this is as good a system improvement as a far more expensive power cable."
Well at least they got the last half correct, I absolutely agree with that 100% ! 😀
How to Revive High-End Audio | Stereophile.com
What a load of crap from Atkinson (surprise surprise) Bemoaning the fact that people just aren't buying high end components like they used too, then summing it all up by concluding that :
" But with the resurgence of the LP, especially among young music lovers, the advent of computer- and mobile-based audio that is no longer limited in quality by the unmusical noise of lossy codecs like MP3, and the explosion of headphone-based listening, which allows audiophiles of limited means to buy and enjoy Class A audio components without having to spend more than four figures, I believe the future of high-end audio is brighter than it used to be. You might say that it now has a future!"
Yeah right, then Atkinson is going to go right back to reviewing and testing the latest $100,000 speaker/amp/DAC/what have you, like it's business as normal.
Truman1 in the comments calls it correctly:
"But I think there is one issue that you did not cover and is part of the reason many potential customers have left Stereophile and audio in general and it has nothing to do with the cost of equipment. The issue is the industry's vocal snake oil salesman! Buy this quantum flux capacitor burl wood acoustic harminizor for $10,000 and it will transform the listening experience. The worst part is not that these hucksters sells this junk, but it is that the trade magazines enable them with glowing reviews that validate their wild claims. The public no longer trusts the trade magazine because the collusion obvious to all. Start telling the truth and calling out industry lies and people might start listening again."
THEN we have Josh Hill replying that he agrees mostly with what he said but also:
"I wouldn't accuse the magazines of colluding.Not this one anyway"
😕 I guess Josh must have selective reading comprehension when it comes to ignoring all the snake oil Stereophile has reported on at the trade shows.🙄
Getting back to Atkinson's link about unmusical noise of lossy codecs like MP3, we also find in the comments for that post, a test done by
Archimago at his website Archimago's Musings: High Bitrate MP3 Internet Blind Test: Part 2 - RESULTS
The details and results which I mostly will leave to the reader to see for themselves. Original CD files vs 320 kbps MP3 files. Most preferred the "unmusical noise" of the MP3 in fact 😱
The test survey asked the following:
"The primary question asked was for the respondents to choose whether "Set A" or "Set B" sounded INFERIOR; with the implication probably being that the MP3 encoding would deteriorate the sound quality (it is by definition "lossy"). In order to not force the respondents to guess if in their opinion the samples are equivalent, an option was provided to select "no difference". The other questions in the survey pertained to which of the 3 songs was thought to be most revealing of differences, confidence of the respondent ("easy" to "impossible to tell"), approximate cost of the audio system used, and a description of the type of equipment used. The hope is that these other variables can be used to analyze the data to determine if the respondent's level of confidence and cost of the system (presumably the more expensive systems are more revealing) predicted accuracy. "
Too bad Stereophile doesn't run any ABX SBT or DBT tests before their editor prints his subjective opinion for all to see.
What a load of crap from Atkinson (surprise surprise) Bemoaning the fact that people just aren't buying high end components like they used too, then summing it all up by concluding that :
" But with the resurgence of the LP, especially among young music lovers, the advent of computer- and mobile-based audio that is no longer limited in quality by the unmusical noise of lossy codecs like MP3, and the explosion of headphone-based listening, which allows audiophiles of limited means to buy and enjoy Class A audio components without having to spend more than four figures, I believe the future of high-end audio is brighter than it used to be. You might say that it now has a future!"
Yeah right, then Atkinson is going to go right back to reviewing and testing the latest $100,000 speaker/amp/DAC/what have you, like it's business as normal.
Truman1 in the comments calls it correctly:
"But I think there is one issue that you did not cover and is part of the reason many potential customers have left Stereophile and audio in general and it has nothing to do with the cost of equipment. The issue is the industry's vocal snake oil salesman! Buy this quantum flux capacitor burl wood acoustic harminizor for $10,000 and it will transform the listening experience. The worst part is not that these hucksters sells this junk, but it is that the trade magazines enable them with glowing reviews that validate their wild claims. The public no longer trusts the trade magazine because the collusion obvious to all. Start telling the truth and calling out industry lies and people might start listening again."
THEN we have Josh Hill replying that he agrees mostly with what he said but also:
"I wouldn't accuse the magazines of colluding.Not this one anyway"
😕 I guess Josh must have selective reading comprehension when it comes to ignoring all the snake oil Stereophile has reported on at the trade shows.🙄
Getting back to Atkinson's link about unmusical noise of lossy codecs like MP3, we also find in the comments for that post, a test done by
Archimago at his website Archimago's Musings: High Bitrate MP3 Internet Blind Test: Part 2 - RESULTS
The details and results which I mostly will leave to the reader to see for themselves. Original CD files vs 320 kbps MP3 files. Most preferred the "unmusical noise" of the MP3 in fact 😱
The test survey asked the following:
"The primary question asked was for the respondents to choose whether "Set A" or "Set B" sounded INFERIOR; with the implication probably being that the MP3 encoding would deteriorate the sound quality (it is by definition "lossy"). In order to not force the respondents to guess if in their opinion the samples are equivalent, an option was provided to select "no difference". The other questions in the survey pertained to which of the 3 songs was thought to be most revealing of differences, confidence of the respondent ("easy" to "impossible to tell"), approximate cost of the audio system used, and a description of the type of equipment used. The hope is that these other variables can be used to analyze the data to determine if the respondent's level of confidence and cost of the system (presumably the more expensive systems are more revealing) predicted accuracy. "
Too bad Stereophile doesn't run any ABX SBT or DBT tests before their editor prints his subjective opinion for all to see.
High priced mains is one (of many) snake oil things I could never understand the the logic for.
Does a fancy a main magically transform and improve your entire house wiring?
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The ones who buy such stuff likely have dedicated mains wiring for their audio gear. (I do, minus the fancy cords)
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