Marce, you are incorrect about the 'stuff' surrounding the resistor. The ceramic tube is the HEART of the Bybee, and because it has a coating that is the 'magic' that measures a finite (relatively low resistance) without the resistor added in parallel. How do I know? I once took a Bybee apart and measured it. I destroyed the Bybee, and that is more than anyone here has bothered to do to affirm what is inside. I am with the 'trust but verify' philosophy, like many are.
Say there is a placebo audio device, which naturally some people perceive to produce an audible effect. Should it matter that it's placebo to those who perceive a benefit ? Does discovery that it might be placebo then affect perception ? Does certainty that it is placebo affect perception ? Is it ever possible to switch perception after discovering the certain truth ? Fascinating, I find.
Selling a placebo as doing real physics would be an outright fraud.
I would not go so far as to suggest that people that buy into these things are necessarily stupid, the N-rays debacle happened to world class physicists... they are not stupid.
Gullible yes, but not stupid.
I would not go so far as to suggest that people that buy into these things are necessarily stupid, the N-rays debacle happened to world class physicists... they are not stupid.
Gullible yes, but not stupid.
Ambiance is part of the magic of music, so audio gear should look good and instill confidence. The Concertgebouw ain't no shed either.
The other Friday night my neighbour tuned up his Strat and fired up his Fender.
Whilst he played I placed a ferrite clamp-on filter around the guitar cable.
The result was drive the listener out of the room ear bleed harshness/hash with a cloud of noise sounds that do not belong.
Next time I will try a BQP.
Dan.
Can't sell a placebo as being a real placebo. It has to be "sold" as doing something real.
Strict "anti-placebo" may be unreasonable, but I don't think "only in appropriate time, place, and person" is.
Strict "anti-placebo" may be unreasonable, but I don't think "only in appropriate time, place, and person" is.
"... ear bleed harshness/hash ..." from a ferrite ring ?!
You lose all credibility stating such silly .... BS!
You lose all credibility stating such silly .... BS!
Max more info fender Strat into what amp ? If it in to a fender amp . I am unable to understand how removing rf pickup ands noise to a rig that cut like a chainsaw to start with . Just my experience well at least in the northern Hemisphere that is contraindicated as a result of ferrite clamp-on filter🙄 .
Why would linearity of components matter when they are feeding into a @#$-ing RECTIFIER?? How nonlinear can you get, after all? The AC to DC rectifier is pretty much the very poster boy of nonlinear circuitry isn't it?
Every Hypex PSU owners dislikes nearly anything that adds capacitance before it, as it has a very non-linear filter in the PSU that responds poorly. Sorry but that's an easy question. Parts that change the property of others and vice versa...
Rationalizing, rather than experiencing will give poor results. Rectifiers have their OWN problems, but the GROUND is not necessarily free from power line contamination in many designs.
Oh, you need more? Well, think about the center-tap of a toroid power transformer and how, at high frequencies, it directly connects to the power line through the input-output capacitance of the transformer.
Wrong, read the stuff from 2011 on your thread... pictures of one striped down.
So it is a magic ingredient, thanks for the confirmation.
Regards
earlier post regarding ferrites, how come they get put on other electronics if they are so bad... including sensitive analogue designs... I would presume you have some measurements to share with us to prove this point...
Any empirical data....🙂
No wife in the kitchen air guitaring with gay abandon, until you put the devils component round the lead, so she stepped into the living room saying "where is that ear bleeding cacophony of nose coming from, who'd a thought a ferrite designed to work at very high frequencies often around 100MHz could have such a negative effect at audio frequencies"
Fender Champ 12 and '92 Strat.
We tried 3 conditions.......normal, with ferrite clip-on filter and another clip-on filter.
The normal sound was well normal....on clean channel pretty clean and on overdrive distorted as per normal expectation.
Adding the ferrite puts an odd 'noise' and odd distortion cast over the whole sound, and when running overdrive a dominating harsh noise fog over the sound....altogether unpleasant and tinnitus inducing type sound.
Dan.
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Yes.
I don't have answers but we both agreed that the ferrite sounded BAD, really bad.
Dan.
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