Don't think I have ever seen a patent attributed to him, as to the rest Audio marketing is full of ex military designers, one cable company even employs moonlighting engineers from space programs, the extra mystique adds seductiveness to the marketing and gives a credibility to the way out claims...
Don't know about ICs, I know they are using in silicon via's for the chip stacks, we need Scott or someone more in the know to answer this one, I will look around as my curiosity is piqued.
Easily? Sort of. I see about a 3 dB drop after "Break in" of commodity 1% metal film resistors. Have you ever seen a circuit where the difference between -120 and -123 would matter that didn't go to better products?
It has been years since I did a search, but I never found a patent.
Jack appears to be the antithesis to Arnold Krueger. Both are vile liars; one made a false claim of having invented an electron purifier and used his lie to support inane subjectivism to bolster his trinket sales. The other made a false claim of inventing ABX testing and used his lie as a podium of credibility to support his claim that all electronics sound identical to bolster his defunct amp company sales.
Jack appears to be the antithesis to Arnold Krueger. Both are vile liars; one made a false claim of having invented an electron purifier and used his lie to support inane subjectivism to bolster his trinket sales. The other made a false claim of inventing ABX testing and used his lie as a podium of credibility to support his claim that all electronics sound identical to bolster his defunct amp company sales.
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No, an arcane purification ritual where you have to sent the spend canister off for recharging. like the thiefery around DPF canisters in some cars.
Good to know that has moved on. In my GSM days the problems were wierd shaped boards created by some guru in finland that worked fine at 900MHz if the components didn't bounce off in pick and place but we had to make them work at 2GHz, where the metalwork became a nice cavity resonator. I miss those days. But I still must kick my anti-lead free bias.
Never observed this with our thin film resistors. But in any case you need to qualify how many resistors in the signal path are running at 1/4 their rated power and if it mattered bump the few up in size.
I suspect that 3 dB is less than the batch to batch variance. But I did try long term testing and saw some resistors did shift, but only the cheap ones. Still a great value for the money.
seems apt to post this here. The comments are particularly good from the true believers.
Smackdown: The Amazing Randi & Ars Technica Take On An Ethernet Cable! | AudioStream
Ok doing it in vegas is a bit self promotional of Randi, but will be interested to see what the results end up as.
Smackdown: The Amazing Randi & Ars Technica Take On An Ethernet Cable! | AudioStream
Ok doing it in vegas is a bit self promotional of Randi, but will be interested to see what the results end up as.
I'm confused too. Had not heard of said Arny before, but other that being a bit of an online **** at times he is not saying everything sounds the same.
Anyway, his claims, visible at present online, are that amplifiers were perfected in the 70s, people can't distinguish between components with distortion below 10% (this number varies- he's stated several figures), and that ABX tests prove modern audio equipment are indistinguishable. Most people here and DIY sponsors would disagree with those claims. I didn't know of him either, but there is alot of discussion elsewhere about these claims in the past month of so. They seem to be opposites.
BQPs remind me of a SF short story, where a magician kept his cave cool by placing a screen at the entrance that let only fast moving air molecules out and slow moving ones in...
I followed Arny Krueger 15 years ago at the height of the AB discussions. I don't think he says all amps sound the same (although you might maybe find an isolated out of context piece of text that seems so).
He thought all would sound the same below some specific specs however, and put in a lot of effort with the ABX stuff to prove it.
I can't see how that makes him a liar or a fraud. If I was Mr. Krueger I would be pretty upset if my name was mentioned in the same sentence as Jack Bybee's.
Jan
He thought all would sound the same below some specific specs however, and put in a lot of effort with the ABX stuff to prove it.
I can't see how that makes him a liar or a fraud. If I was Mr. Krueger I would be pretty upset if my name was mentioned in the same sentence as Jack Bybee's.
Jan
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