Nothing new in that... (There was a period where, for low-cost electronics such as transistor radios, it was common to print the resistors directly on the PCB surface.)
Going further back, I remember making a grid leak by mounting Fahnstock clips on each end of a piece of paxolin board, then drawing a line between the terminals with a soft lead pencil...
I have larger ones - black coated ceramic tube with soldered end caps, resistor inside.
That's nine months away.
Sure. Understanding how they actually work would be interesting but is not critical to the discussion.
More interesting would be how measured changes translate to the subjective evaluations given by many.
Agreed, manufacturer blurb really does not matter a hoot.
Of course, there are plenty of tweak products with seemingly outrageous claims and explanations, and many of these do fall into the category of expectation bias.
IME the BQP's do not fall into this category, and the changes wrought are clearly and easily audible.
This does not mean that I am enamoured with them, but it does mean that I recognise that they do 'something', which I regard as benefit but with reservations.
One very interesting subjective test is to listen with pink noise as the source.
The subjective result of this test is that a modulation is reduced, and the reproduced pink noise becomes 'matter of fact'....the bursting/reverb/tailing characteristic that we are all familiar with is quite dramatically reduced.
I think this is indeed due to a lowering of system intrinsic 1/f noise but at this time I have no actual proofs.
I have observed behavioural change in the deflections of my D&N test set true VU meter however.
In the next two weeks I will complete setting up a dedicated T&M bench and suite of clean power and signal interfaceing/jigs in order to characterise what I hear.
Dan.
No understanding how they work is critical as it is with all electronic components, how else do you develop circuits!
no data sheet / specs = avoid
can you imagine a formal design review with one installed.
who advises the best place to stick it?
MaxHR tries to scare folks off from using ferrites in the right places, and yet he likes these thingy's in any random spot... things that make you go hmmm
from stupids to knuckles
Coercion is Never a sign of intelligence.
Always a sign of Desperation.
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as far as physics goes, there is nothing about what the Bybees do,
that is difficult to understand.
that so few posters in this thread,
are able to comprehend the basic physics about this subject,
does not bode well for humanity.
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there are more than two 'types' of electrons.
the key here would be geometry.
consider the the words, live and evil.
actually, the same word.
one goes one way,
the other is 180 degrees out of phase.
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scientist observe. fools argue.
which for you?
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Coercion is Never a sign of intelligence.
Always a sign of Desperation.
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as far as physics goes, there is nothing about what the Bybees do,
that is difficult to understand.
that so few posters in this thread,
are able to comprehend the basic physics about this subject,
does not bode well for humanity.
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there are more than two 'types' of electrons.
the key here would be geometry.
consider the the words, live and evil.
actually, the same word.
one goes one way,
the other is 180 degrees out of phase.
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scientist observe. fools argue.
which for you?
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Sounds like complete nonsens to me. Totally complete nonsense.
But if you can point to some (or just one) actual scientific publications that describes the phenomenon and explains why it would have an influence on quantum noise, I'd be happy to eat my words.
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Personally I like a good argument as famously did Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr.
Does that make them fools as you seem to suggest or did their public disputes merely cement the fact that they were two of the most important scientists of the 20th century?
I think it is part of the situation. If you come up with a novel idea or theory, you must be able to argue well to convince your skeptic colleagues that you are right.
Nobody will wilingy drop his/her own conviction just because another one is available - you need to sell your stuff!
Jan
Indeed.
If there were anything to these things other than more or less fraudulently lightening his customers/victims wallets I would expect Mr Bybee to publicly defend his 'products' with hypotheses of how they work and plenty of measurements and other scientifically usable observations.
Alas he is not and from this I draw my own conclusions.
If there were anything to these things other than more or less fraudulently lightening his customers/victims wallets I would expect Mr Bybee to publicly defend his 'products' with hypotheses of how they work and plenty of measurements and other scientifically usable observations.
Alas he is not and from this I draw my own conclusions.
Please expand further as even the physicists on this site cant fathom what's going on.....
Look in the mirror. I/f noise has nothing to do with the spin of individual electrons. It's not called thermodynamics and statistical mechanics for nothing. The noise is a macroscopic property of the system. The Bybee claim is negative entropy with no source of energy, the additional mention of "dissipated as heat" in even more nonsensical in that context.
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Maybe the US military have discovered a way to exploit zero-point energy? Or is it just that someone has convinced them that he knows how to do it - taking money off the military is not quite as easy as taking money off audiophiles but it is not impossibly hard, as the fake bomb detector makers found before they were imprisoned for fraud.scott wurcer said:
By the way, why is it that when someone make a claim about 'new physics' for audio gizmos there are always people who pop up and say something like "I don't know much physics myself, but how do you know he is mistaken? I choose to believe him rather than you; obviously, people wouldn't be buying these things if they didn't work".
(amusing, you're assuming a/the rhyme & pizza poster at the least has a basic understanding of entropy)
The unfortunate problem is that we are such idiots that it isn't worth explaining to us the "two" types of electrons, just insult and run.
Vin Diesel fan?
Shall we call this the vile theory?
Same word, just a little confused. Like the theory itself.
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