They do this very slowly, and actually being AC they really wouldn't bother, they'd just start a rumour
I've been asked to leave stores after confronting sales BS in front of customers (marks).
Given that most sales personnel are typically technically clueless and merely regurgitate manufacturer ad copy, you could have turned such confrontations to educating them instead...win/win.
Dan.
Dan.
The review descriptions of BQP bullets, 'Room Neutralsing', iQSE, improving wines etc are all old hat to me, but by different methods to those used by Jack Bybee.
The point I am making is that it is repeatably and perfectly easily possible to alter the 'sound in the room' by applying certain mixtures to audio systems.
This application can be on cables, within cables, within connectors, external or internal to system boxes (cdp/amp etc), speaker magnets etc.
All materials have 'a sound' and we have all been listening to combinations of these sounds all along....pcb materials, encapsulation materials, component substrate materials, cable insulations, solders, conductors etc etc.
Some gear 'gets it right' by using materials that 'play nice' together, and some do not.......sound 'signature/clarity/intelligibility' of a system is not only THD/IMD etc.
Interestingly the behaviour and consequent signature of a system can be altered by applying particular materials at connection and transduction points in the system.
Some materials will cause 'drive you out of the room' badness, other materials quite the opposite rendering pretty much any system enjoyable with the ultimate resolution defined by the capabilities of the system.
Dan.
Yes, I'm sure that a BQP would have a characteristic sound when I rap my knuckles on it versus, say a completely different material of the same geometry.
So I am confused by all the 3000usd and more AC cables. Somehow the electricity flowing in the wall through .10usd a foot Romex, when you plug in your super AC cable all of those electrons are suddenly transformed.
Guess I should just go back to smoking the funny grass!!
Guess I should just go back to smoking the funny grass!!
Good thing there isn't more than half a meter between the power plant and my outlets. OK, all audio and video power cords less than 0.5m and I should be in heaven!
Not all, but the best ones. Not being constrained by facts makes the sales pitch much more effective.
Note: I am using "best" to mean "highest sales numbers and margin"
Spindizzy motoring salespersons. I asked that question, and was huffily (is that a word, now?)
informed one's shiny new power cable isn't the end of the connection to the power station, through miles of non audiophile cabling, neighbourhood transformers, and cheap, non long grain copper house wiring, and receptacles.
One's shiny new powercable is the first power connection one's component sees.
When I asked how a supposedly near perfect monocrystal, 6 foot long cable might fix the pattern of crystalline boundary distortions, rather than passing them along, unchanged, I was told my time in the store was up.
Attended a store gathering for its debut of a famous Canadian standmount isobaric speaker.
The designer and company owner was there, and described how every part of the speaker had been tested and tweaked, even down to binding posts, veneer choice, and the applied finish, for optimal sound quality.
I was curious, if the same design had two or more veneers available, which one was the optimal structured veneer,cherry, maple, mahogany, or did they even sound different?
Vince looked me in the eye, and said: "Of course! Colour is transdimensional!"
I was the only one in the room who laughed, instead of nodding, solemnly.
(I still think Vince is much smarter than me; and I still think he was kidding. Still, those Beaks, and little green dots... maybe he wasn't joking).
They were, anyhow, one of the best sounding speakers I've ever heard.
I'm perfectly serious.
I'm saying that the filter materials I am talking about are best placed at the output end of each stage....think energy flow/transfer/transduction not ac signal.
By 'stage' I mean the output end of cables (power/signal/speaker), the output of a component cdp/dac/amp etc, output of crossover (speaker driver connections) and ultimately speaker magnets.
This is overview, there are many other implementations and applications similarly and additively beneficial.
I do understand that to the most of you here that the concept of the likes of BQP is too 'far out' to make sense, BUT once the likes of BQP is experienced all objections cease.
Dan.
My amplifier and preamplifier employ 13 mains transformers. If after endless "discussions" here I felt like I had it and wanted to put in some Bybee resistors between wal outlet and mains transformers, would all transformers have to be "treated"? Or maybe just one or two resistors between IEC inlet and power switch?
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