Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

This whole "dry out your ruined phone" craze sounds like an opportunity for Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and pals.

Nice to be reminded to do a frequency sweep once in a while (not the one above, which looks like it recorded off someone's telly, complete with background noises)... 13.5-13.8kHz at best with these 53yo ears. Hold the hi-res!

the apple watch does use a sound to blast water out of the speaker when you deactivate swim mode

it does not sound like the above examples

pic.twitter.com/aVC96UeW5m

— Shoegaze Dad 🇵🇭 (@yeoldedad) February 28, 2022

yes, but now i want healing crystal-encrusted gold plated cables.

Abbey Rd are yet again selling cardboard boxes with Pink Floyd written in biro for £200, who in the world would want to own such a hollow item?

https://shop.abbeyroad.com/*/*/Pink-Floyd-i-The-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon-i-EMI-Tape-Box-Folio-Side-One/6VJM0000000

The tape contained within this box was exclusively manufactured by EMI. Between the mid ‘50s and 1981, EMI produced both blank and pre-recorded magnetic tapes in many formats, including type H60 and type H65

What weird phrasing. "The tape contained within this box (well not this box... this box is empty)"

This box once contained bars of pure gold! It's empty now, but doesn't that make it feel more valuable just knowing that?

Selling a purely fetishistic item like that takes real ballz... at least throw in a "special edition" CD, or something?

I mean, for an extra, idk...£15 in manufacturing costs? They could throw in a tape reel and stick the quad version of DSotM on it, surely?

It’s a replica of the empty box!

It’s a replica of the empty box!

And here I thought Funko Pops were the peak of ephemera. This is on another level and an extremely hokey pitch. At least put a picture of the original tape inside the box or something.

The correct price point for this item is one tenth of that figure (and even then for suckers only)

thought i was in the NFT thread for a sec

Selling a purely fetishistic item like that takes real ballz... at least throw in a "special edition" CD, or something?

― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:09 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, for an extra, idk...£15 in manufacturing costs? They could throw in a tape reel and stick the quad version of DSotM on it, surely?

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:09 PM

Missed this exchange earlier. I'm as confused as you all. Maybe they don't have the rights to the music? But wait, they're using the EMI logo???

Sidebar: people sell empty boxes for other collectables, don't they? Is Abbey Road just trying to cash in on that scene? Also didn't those other collectable empty boxes have something in them at one point? Or???

Whatever the case, this is fantastically stupid.

Just browsed through the wonderful Abbey Road web store and this can't be life. Who buys this stuff?

I once came across a TEAC A-3340 or something at a pawn shop a few years ago, and don’t regret not picking it up. Idk if that’s a good model, but just the thought of it needing service and the cost of open-reel recordings was too much of a minefield to try to do frugally. I’m sure there’s a scene for that (perhaps some folks here collect them), but it seems like if there would have been a heyday for getting into it, it would have been in the late 90s-00s when ppl were just figuring out the internet and just offloading shit they thought was outdated.

thought i was in the NFT thread for a sec

― scanner darkly

Yes omg this is NFTs for boomers!

No Floyd Tapes

Oh wait, these are litho prints of the front and back of the tape box, mounted in little photo-corners? I thought it was the actual box at least!

I'd happy pay a tenner for a photographic reproduction of the master tape box (of something I actually love, like, I dunno, Brilliant Trees or House Tornado or something) on something useful, like a ring binder or a mouse mat or a pencil case, but obviously that's far too trashy gift shop / Paperchase for Abbey Road. Chuck in a certificate and it's £200.

I used to like those '90s CD re-issues with images of hand-written stereo master labels in the liner notes. Never occurred to me you could charge big bucks for those images!

I take it back, Abbey Road shop is full of this kind of "useful" tat. You can never have enough tote bags.

TEAC A-3340

Pretty sure we had one of these when I worked in a university archive - we had the congressional papers from a long serving speaker of the house and some other state things and the archivist was required by law to keep them in their original format and have the hardware necessary to make reproductions as needed. So we had an 8 track player, reel-to-reel, Zip drives, ancient giant floppy drives, and multiples of a weird film projecter from the 80s that happened to have a composite video output - he bought a few on ebay to keep around as backups.

tbh i can totally see myself splurging £200 on the original master tape box for some album i really love as a cool collectible & now i'm kinda mad that the idea is in my head but its not a thing being offered

Maybe they don't have the rights to the music? But wait, they're using the EMI logo???

Maybe they have a deal with EMI were they can use the trademark on reproductions of old stuff (from when that was the studio name), and EMI gets a cut

if this ain't the way you listen to yer vinyls than yer doin it wrong. pic.twitter.com/1Lj2oE9Yhx

— QueenCityJamz (@QueenCityJamz) March 3, 2022

i'm getting some unpleasant resonances. what fillings do you recommend for soundstage accuracy and clarity?

it helps to swallow a handful of shakti stones first

Hey look! Side two is now for sale.

https://shop.abbeyroad.com/*/*/Pink-Floyd-The-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon-EMI-Tape-Box-Folio-Side-Two/7BHJ0000000

Okay, it stopped being funny.

>:|

$300+ shipped to the U.S. Imagine someone designing some ridiculous super deluxe box set and stopping at the sight of this, thinking "wait, are you saying we don't even need actual content to make this kind of money???"

Here is one of the last batch that came out, it's not even a tape box, just a folder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GUeyNVmVds

omg

New car, caviar, four-star daydream (...amirite?)

have to take your hat off to em, this is next level bullshit

$300+ shipped to the U.S. Imagine someone designing some ridiculous super deluxe box set and stopping at the sight of this, thinking "wait, are you saying we don't even need actual content to make this kind of money???"

How many bands could get away with it*, probably just Pink Floyd and The Beatles? I don't think Stones fans would go for an Exile version of this.

* assuming that more than 5 of these actually sell which is a big assumption

Surprised Robert Fripp hasn't at least tried.

Well, soon you can buy 32 discs of Fripp's music, in a box with a 50-page booklet for £160

My coworker pulled the grill cloth off some "vintage speakers" and found this pic.twitter.com/DumrqmFXPL

— stu (@rinbcage) March 19, 2022

(chef's kiss)

hold on to your shakti stones, cuz the $700 usb dummy plug https://www.thecableco.com/rut-1-usb-terminator.html

missed a word there

They’ve convinced me

USB port of the computer and audio equipment, always operating state, what to release noise even in the open state that does not use, has had a negative effect on the audio equipment. In particular, USB has coexist power supply line and the signal line, making it the sensitive structure the influence of noise. The type of memory shape to be attached to USB-A port vacant acoustic Riva USB isolator RUT-1 of Eve, was laminated the signal line of high quality resistance, power line Built-in noise cut circuit using a good quality of parts is doing. Noise and distortion, stimulus component is reduced, sound localization is clarified, such as texture and three-dimensional feeling, every item will dramatically improve. Should you are able to recognize the importance of noise and vibration control measures of free USB terminal that has been ignored so far

That's amazing. The description doesn't even make sense.

But yes, agreed: quite convincing.

Holy shit, lol

Built-in noise cut circuit using a good quality of parts is doing.

It reads like Madlibs that didn't quite work out. Company is based in PA and not only do they have free consultation, but also a loyalty program. The whole site is wonderful. $9000 cables. $35000 headphone amps. $123000 turntables. Fascinating!

I want to be on the pricing strategy team, do they sit around the table upping the price until someone finally cracks and starts laughing?

Agreed. My kinda place, if so. Going into every staff meeting with that "I'm not even blinking until we get to seven figures" face.

i wonder how vast the soundstage would be if i applied cream electret to the RUT-1

Some all-time classic contributions recently to this (already MFSL-quality) thread.

Some amazing close-out deals on The Cable Company's sister site usedcable.com. $2000 RCA cables on fire sale for the low low price of $875.