Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

Selling speakers as part of a gig subscription service is a bit weird. In fact, a gig subscription service is also weird.

(although, thinking about it, cinema season tickets exist)

Pono type of business

guys i just bought new speakers. they need stands. so i bought the stands. did i buy sand to go into the stands? reader, i did.

Audiophile sand?

I'm offended you even have to ask

I take it you're aware of Atabites SMD-Z 7HD Inert Filler

Sand seems like a pretty obvious benefit if for no other reason than to make the stands heavier and more stable.

Yes - with kids and a growing puppy it seems like a good idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHde39Lkxww

Tracer otm, i stan stand sand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI1cqXU9h4

Master boot vinyl record: It just gives DOS on my IBM PC a warmer, more authentic tone

this look intertsing.....

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html

yeah will have to try that when i have more time

a little disappointing the first track was a killers song that was absolutely butchered with brickwall mastering, not the easiest example

"Lordy Be!
You
can almost certainly
hear the difference between the lossy and lossless samples"

It was just the test tone :) Which I preferred to the Eagles.

(I started the proper tests and was really just guessing, so I gave up. Lossless streaming is probably wasted on me. Also I don't really want to hear any of these samples again :/ )

i cackled at the stupidity of it all upon hearing the killers, so i just alternated "x is a, submit, x is b, submit" and got 60% accuracy.

Does mat material honestly matter at all? I’m trying to reduce the amount of time I spend fretting about static and/or tracking and it seems like a cork mat might be a decent, cheap upgrade...if that actually does anything, to say nothing of psycho shit like deerskin mats, which I genuinely thought were some kind of gag at first

what white nonsense is this pic.twitter.com/n2gtkegt4K

— Air”Bud”Melman (@nakedfoul) March 25, 2021

About a week too early with that kind of stuff.

http://i.imgur.com/ME9zBmm.jpg

looks like hes thinking "yeah, this is a dumb idea for obvious reasons."

yeah, certainly been done before with 7" slot-in players. there's one in a Leningrad cowboys film.

i swear i've seen old ones that weren't slot loading too

Here’s (part of) a detailed history: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/obsolete-car-audio-part-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jtjo3UtL7E

It really is

#OnThisDay 1959: Monitor made a short film called Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum, about a burgeoning phenomenon; the audiophile. This is absolutely wonderful. pic.twitter.com/AA7BPUHS1j

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) April 12, 2021

Oh, it’s John Schlesinger. I’m disappointed it’s not directed by some unheralded genius, really.

finally watched that, what a charmer. the "stereo" scene feels like it's channeling Tati.

Lol brilliant. A soft spot for a tweeter that holds these faces in thrall.

Tried to identify some of the kit in that film. Only thing I’m sure of is the Tannoy Canterbury speakers which go for silly money https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=LJUNE15++139+&refno=10339460

Here's a version not cropped to square, in case you can spy any at the edges:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=363622534242894

> Estimate £200-300

seems reasonable

> Sold for £4,800

oof

My new favourite instance of audio equipment companies seeing just how blatantly they can fuck with 'audiophiles' is this box that explicitly doesn't actually do anything and still costs $1500 pic.twitter.com/FFVRq9J4bp

— Sandra O))) 🪑 (@wifemetal) May 21, 2021

That rules

Yeah, that’s a riot

Going out of the way to make it weigh 12lbs - like filling it with sand? - is the best part.

They didn’t even get good LEDs it’s fuckin green

I’ve seen those listed in the past and afaict they were intended for displays in hi-fi shops

It’s a good way to impress your most Patrick Bateman-like friend.

Beautiful. I must have one.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0520/Synergistic_Research_Tweakfest_Review.htm

Yeah, you don't want to over-tighten the screws on your carbon fibre MAINS SOCKET COVER. Sucks the life out of the music. The state of this.

i think i got vertigo just trying to make sense of that article

I'm probably way more audiophile (tube amps, pricey speakers, etc.) than the avg ilxor but that shit is just straight grift.

Also, sometimes I think the best audiophile upgrade I can make is taking another hit of weed.

that shit = that review

comedy gold: chasing down sources of imaginary mains noise, while the tuner sports a gas fluorescent display which would be raining out EM interference if the shielding wasn't absolutely fine at taking care of that and also any mains noise.

This is extreme audiophile shit. This guy moved his family to a *new house* to make his hi-fi sound better. https://t.co/C7ZwxRootB

— Bruce Levenstein (@BruceLevenstein) July 7, 2021

uhh no he didnt?

Now, what's the smallest number of edits needed to make that tweet factually correct?

feels like Bruce thought of a punchline here but the tweet didn’t quite fit

I like the idea, though