Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

electromagnetic stabilizer stone!!

http://✧✧✧.musicdir✧✧✧.com/p-7506-shakti-electromagnetic-stabilizer-st✧✧✧.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=10-10-14&utm_content=&utm_campaign=soundbytes&utm_email_address=m✧✧✧@gameinfor✧✧✧.c✧✧

The SHAKTI Electromagnetic Stabilizer (aka "the Stone") has three internal trap circuits (Microwave, RF and Electric Field) to absorb the broadest spectrum of EMI... In automotive applications, where space allows, the unit should be securely taped and/or cable tied to the top of the CPU.

damn. microwave, RF, and electic field!

pretty cool that they can absorb EM waves that aren't even incident on 'the Stone', though. I'm sure the NSA could use 'the Stone'.

Shakti are the ones who make all the craziest shit, right? Like those zig-zag wooden pitchfork things that harmonify and magnanimize your soundicles.

http://www.audio-magic.com/Prod-pulsedelectron.html

finally they made something for my cohesive path. i was like "ahhh all these spin-up and spin-down cycles are DRIVING ME CRAZY I HAVE LIKE ZERO TRANSPARENCY AND MY COMPONENTS DON'T HAVE ANY DETAIL MY MIDRANGE IS SO FUCKED"

soundstage more like a sound cage

so it's a magnet?

(there's probably a single resistor in that box)

fuse reviews you can use. solid shapes on your soundstage. cymbals decaying like fireworks as you see into the blacker blacks and the beautiful bells

http://www.audio-magic.com/RaveReviews.html

Interconnects & Digital:
-- Large conductive liquid polymer conductors
-- Eichman bullet plugs
-- Passive shielding
-- Cryo treated
-- MST treated

Speaker Cable:
-- Large conductive liquid polymer conductors
-- Gold banana and spade lugs
-- Cryo treated
-- MST treated

quality find los blue jeans, nice work

I used my golf ball finder / mine detector

the reference to "spin" makes me feel like the claim being advanced by the Pulsed Electron Alignment box (if it indeed is making a claim) is that it's exerting quantum-level effects on the electrons in your circuitry, all on two AAs.

It would not be hard to do! It sounds like it's a pulsed electromagnet. It just doesn't help anything.

"audio magic" is an appropriate name, since this stuff operates exclusively on wishful thinking

someone really ought to do some kind of ethnographic study of this subculture

im going to hazard a guess and say old white ppl

GIS for "men with high-end stereos" both confirms your suspicions with some stereotypical lookin bros and suggests that actually men of all ethnicities seek that elusive high-end sound

http://www.tonepublications.com/blog/the-future-of-audio-is-women/

Audiophile buddy of mine just crowed about his recent acquisition of these (for his speakers) on FB:

http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/departments.asp?dept=96

No idea if this is legit or snakeoil, completely out of my realm.

Spiky feet for speakers and turntables aren't snakeoil. These are a bit pricey though.

This photo from their site is O_o though: (url is a million miles long, this may not work)

https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8pwoFJtUXHUAAHWJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIybGM0Mm02BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0Nzk1NDU1ZGU1ZjhmMDBmZWQwNzNlMjA0YTU3NWI3MQRncG9zAzQEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dmapleshade%2Baudio%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D4&w=1068&h=1600&imgurl=www.mapleshadestore.com%2Fimages%2Fmaingallery%2FMainGalleryImages-1.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleshadestore.com%2Fgalleries.php&size=496.9KB&name=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&p=mapleshade+audio&oid=4795455de5f8f00fed073e204a575b71&fr2=piv-web&fr=&tt=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&b=0&ni=21&no=4&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11c69kpjm&sigb=13n0cccmr&sigi=1226pt8av&sigt=12huedb9v&sign=12huedb9v&.crumb=p/veegT1alS&fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla

Enh, thought so.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8peoFJtUIjcAmW.JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIybGM0Mm02BHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM0Nzk1NDU1ZGU1ZjhmMDBmZWQwNzNlMjA0YTU3NWI3MQRncG9zAzQEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dmapleshade%2Baudio%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D4&w=1068&h=1600&imgurl=www.mapleshadestore.com%2Fimages%2Fmaingallery%2FMainGalleryImages-1.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mapleshadestore.com%2Fgalleries.php&size=496.9KB&name=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&p=mapleshade+audio&oid=4795455de5f8f00fed073e204a575b71&fr2=piv-web&fr=&tt=Below+are+some+featured+images+of+our+%3Cb%3Eaudio%3C%2Fb%3E+products.+To+view+customer+...&b=0&ni=21&no=4&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11c69kpjm&sigb=13n0cccmr&sigi=1226pt8av&sigt=12huedb9v&sign=12huedb9v&.crumb=p/veegT1alS&fr2=piv-web&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla

I give up.

This is as good a link as any:

http://mapleshadestore.com/galleries.php

There is a certain irony in someone buying Amish crafted wooden racks for their hi-fi gear.

Spikes under your speakers, spikes under your turntable if you really must, but this is really overkill.

If an amplifier on spikes isn't snake oil, nothing is.

A friend-of-a-record-collector-friend had a concrete pillar built from his basement floor into his living room on which to place his turntable. For me, he's the winner of the Batshit Snakeoil Turntable Stability Olympics until someone builds a turntable housing into the pillar itself.

I just want to start a band called Threaded Megafeet.

I hope record collector friend used Geopolymer concrete, that so-called "high performance cellular" concrete has a quite pronounced drop off in the 16-22kHz range.....

Reducing vibrations on a turntable is definitely not snake oil but it is diminishing returns past a certain point.

I hang all of my equipment off of acoustically isolated roof anchors with lots of sonically invisible string.

Coma-style.

I wonder if your hi-hi system works better the closer you are to the equator.

Yeah I mean decoupling and trying to isolate from vibration is actual pretty normal, same reason they make shock mounts on microphones

prbly don't need to isolate your amplifier though

b-b-but earth hum percolates through the substrate of the transistors and polymodulates the incoming signal in the sub-bass otherwise!

the percolation of earth hum into one's transistor substrates can be such a bother to my ears

thank god I always have my audiophile geodes with me

Yeah amps no but speakers and turntables it's not some esoteric thing, plus w turntables it's good so the needle won't skip if you have kids jumping around & stuff

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Kris_Kross_Jump.jpg

RIP Chris Kelly :(
Sad the way things turn out

That tuner in the middle of the Maple Shade gallery looks really cool, hate to think of what it costs.

this is basically the home audio equivalent of morgellon's disease

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm

ahhhh hah i came right in here when i saw that

now where are my gold cat 5 cables

OK that's amazing

this orange juice tastes horrible after brushing my teeth, and now there are even fewer answers why

Thought about this thread earlier when I was reading about Sonys new $1200 Walkman

I was just about to post that.

http://gizmodo.com/sony-walkman-reborn-again-as-a-1200-hi-res-audio-han-1677643981

The market for a $1200 portable music player can't be very big.