Funniest snake oil theories

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OK enough, $119.95 is worth it for some fun and no installation required.

the extended electric and magnetic fields affects the polarity of all electrons and protons in close proximity

Polarity of electrons and protons affected, interesting new physics. Better call CERN and tell them.

Even the best high definition television or any kind of imaging monitor will display better contrast, visual detail and color fidelity. The Signal Enhancer also produces clearer sound that renders dialogue more clearly and music more beautifully.

Fair warning, I hold them to this claim literally and having used my own money and actually tried them I will have no mercy.
 
Scott, I'll have some available SEM time soon if that would help. And could use it as a training sample on our TEM. 🙂 Haven't trained on the EPMA yet, and not even sure that instrument is working, so a chem analysis isn't yet a possibility, and it might not be fine enough resolution anyhow.
 
Max headroom said:
BQP changes the excess noise behaviour of systems.
This manifests as clearer output sound without changing the original signal.
Actually in typical systems the signal changes the system.
No Maxwell demons are involved.
Metals do not have excess noise, so putting a Bybee in a wire could only change excess noise by increasing it from zero. I assume this is not what you mean?
You cannot get clearer sound without changing the original signal.
A system which is only weakly nonlinear (i.e. all competent audio systems) is not changed by noise.
Only a Maxwell demon can distinguish noise from signal, and reduce the former without changing the latter.
 
Scott, I'll have some available SEM time soon if that would help. And could use it as a training sample on our TEM. 🙂 Haven't trained on the EPMA yet, and not even sure that instrument is working, so a chem analysis isn't yet a possibility, and it might not be fine enough resolution anyhow.

I have every intention of following all their advice (12hr. burn-in, etc.), this is no off hand dismissal. I also will not attempt to get a refund but careful disassembly will ensue. Notice the wording ANY kind of imaging monitor no cop out available here, i.e. your speakers are not good enough, your system does not have enough resolution, yadda yadda.
 
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As I have said before, if snake oil merchants simply claimed that their 'economic transfer devices' merely improved sound but did not go into any details then we would have little to laugh at. However, they almost all find it too tempting to avoid writing complete nonsense (whether or not they realise this is unclear to me) which then exposes them as hugely ignorant of science but very good at impressing other people who are also hugely ignorant of science.

scott wurcer said:
Polarity of electrons and protons affected, interesting new physics. Better call CERN and tell them.
Exactly. They have learnt some words, but have wrested them from their meanings.

All this only happens because to someone who is sufficiently ignorant or foolish, foolishness looks like wisdom and wisdom looks like foolishness.
 
I have every intention of following all their advice (12hr. burn-in, etc.), this is no off hand dismissal. I also will not attempt to get a refund but careful disassembly will ensue. Notice the wording ANY kind of imaging monitor no cop out available here, i.e. your speakers are not good enough, your system does not have enough resolution, yadda yadda.

I would only assume you'd be 100% thorough, and I'm sure you have/have access to the measurement equipment to test all the claims electrically. My offer still stands if you want to look at it deep under the hood after having torn it apart sufficiently. And I legit need samples that I can get officially trained on the various electron microscopes here at OHSU vs. my prior institutions.
 
Better make it a premium priced block of wood for proper comparison.

I have plenty of those, I have no intention of making light of this. Equal geometry and weighed to within a gram or so and I still need to disguise it so I don't recognize the difference. The first experiment will be to put it under the TV in our den and see if my wife says, "What have you done to the TV." Of course I will do this with at least 12-24hr. of "burn" in.
 
I have every intention of following all their advice (12hr. burn-in, etc.), this is no off hand dismissal. I also will not attempt to get a refund but careful disassembly will ensue. Notice the wording ANY kind of imaging monitor no cop out available here, i.e. your speakers are not good enough, your system does not have enough resolution, yadda yadda.


I asked this before but lots of this appears to constitute false or misleading advertising claims.

Why have regulatory bodies not been involved and these manufacturers fined for preying on consumers?

Who in the industry can shed light on this?

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