Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

stand behind the mixing desk playing through her iphone speaker imo

Ha ha. "I'm off for a piss, just keep skipping the ads on Spotify, yeah?"

I started a related thread:
The musical taste of tech reviewers S/D

https://audiobacon.net/2017/03/16/sotm-dcbl-cat7-review/

This review of a $600 "audiophile Ethernet cable" is fucking incredible. "If you aren’t a complete neophyte to high-end audio, you’ll know that quantitative measurements could only go so far."

Being so impressed with these cables, I brought them over to my friend’s place with a $60,000 speaker system. He was using generic CAT7 this entire time (He wasn’t embarrassed until after this demo).

who knew the internet could sound so warm?

Everyone’s setup is different and I would suggest you try cables in various locations and see what you like. Generally, the acoustic traits of the cable closest to the source takes precedence.

lol this is low key amazing, the idea that one part of the signal chain would have a greater influence over the overall output than another, golf clap for that one

Beck – Lost Cause (96/24)
The CAT6 is still very music but not as atmospheric.
CAT6 is much flatter and the bass lacks weight and slam.
The CAT7 made a huge difference in the melody and construction of this song. The intro comes to life with all its intricate sounds.
Very holographic. The CAT6…all of it is smeared together. You really don’t know what you’re missing.

you honestly don't what you're missing until you've heard Beck smeared together into a big hologram

THAT'S NOT HOW DIGITAL WORKS GODDAMNIT

I probably missed a Beck "resulting paste" joke there

it's really not how it works

it's not even in the same ballpark with reality

I'm not sure if I want to listen to "Lost Cause" with the bass "slamming," tbqh.

(please no jokes here about not wanting to listen to "Lost Cause" at all, tyvm)

CAT7 made a huge difference in the melody and construction of this song

this is literally true

at least they're appropriately soundtracking the performance of their own disease with that test source

this has to be a parody

Parity is the least of their problems.

- But what about CAT5. what if we made CAT5 carry the same bits at the same time?
- But these are CAT7. </Tufnel>

Am looking to buy an old 1970s amp off eBay, but have read on forums and the like a lot of chatter about pairing certain turntables with certain amps. Is this snake-oil-esque nonsense, or do I really have to tread carefully here?

sounds kind of dumb, unless they're talking about newer turntables that have the phono preamp in the turntable rather than relying on that in the amp, as most older ones had

Yeah, I think it's kind of people who are "hi-fi experts" indulging their hi-fi expertism. My hearing's pole-axed by two decades of gigs so I just want one that sounds good and has VU meters why because they are KOOL

I mean... different things can sound different together but I you gotta remember forum posters are all the type who have loud, violent opinions about what are, to most people, minor differences. I wouldn't sweat it too much.

Have been scanning various forums to try and remedy some issues with my turntable, which have been discussed on various ILX hi-fi threads passim, but I have broken through into the world of protractors, inner groove distortion and force scale gauges. I have no idea what is snake oil or what is real now, up is down, right is wrong and I am baffled as shit and wishing there were evening classes in Turntable Repair like there used to be for simple car mechanics.

you've probably got some demonic electrons trapped in your amp, you're gonna need to get an acoustic exorcist to take a look at it but i warn you it ain't gonna be cheap

:(

http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/Mapleshade-Static-Draining-Brush/productinfo/SDBRUSH/

MAYBE this thing makes sense for vinyl, but for CDs??

I think they would have more fun spending money on drugs and listening to music than buying a brush.

Utter bullshit, a static charge is unable to affect how light reflects from an optical discs's binary pits. Even for LPs the issue with static is attracting dust, not some magical effect on the needle in the groove.

*disc's - sigh

This Stooges box set with 9 different takes on "Dirt" sounds so exquisite on this black tar heroin in this old 90s boombox after I sold my McIntosh poweramp to Big Al up in Stuebensville. While not as definitively high fi, the boombox's aurual distortion along with the nodding out pulls out a true extension of the artist intentions.

getting closer to the pure source

Awesome audiophile hash oil I have known and loved

My audiophile work colleague has just had his oven replaced and has now got an induction hob. Not only is it great for cooking he swears that his hi-fi sounds better, he thinks the old cooker was tainting the power supply.

yeah that sounds legit, def won’t lead to him tearing down the walls of his home in the middle of the night in search of the problematic electrons which are causing some weird trebly flutters on his copy of kind of blue

the cracks, whistles, hums, and whooshes had crisper mids supported by a thicker, more robust low end
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00060832/

hahaha

thank you SG for these laughs

Serious question here:
I visited a record dealer once, and he had what looked to be quite a high-end turntable.
Rather than being mounted on a conventional plinth, it seemed like the turntable was sitting on top of some bizarre miniature waterbed or something, free to sway from side to side ever so slightly.
I don't think I'd call it snake oil, though, as the turntable did sound really amazing.
Anybody have any idea what this actually is? I don't recall the brand name.

I've heard of some turntables suspended on a thin later of an oil or gel type substance but that shit is generally some super high end stuff

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/reddit-audiophiles-test-homepod-say-it-sounds-better-than-1000-speaker/

In-depth test says $350 speaker has a "near-perfectly flat frequency response."

kind of makes me want to try these myself

I'd love to get a HomePod, but it works only with Apple Music or songs you bought from iTunes. It won't play songs you've burned from CDs.

uh what

I guess for voice control maybe, but you can stream to it from any of your devices, and I believe it works fine with iTunes Match. That's kind of a racket in that it's $15/year but hey, you're streaming

lol audiophile snake oil + apple fanboy delusions what a combo

it's apple, i guarantee there are already like a dozen speakers like that half as much and just as good

this is like when they "invented" wireless earbuds

the earbuds are really good though

I think the apple superfan claim is generally that apple didn't necessarily invent anything, just that whatever the thing is, it was no good until Apple did it

I've been working with Apple guys for years, I'm glad you like them, for $159 I certainly hope you do.

It's a religion at this point there's no point in arguing.

i actually had a chance to use the earbuds

they sound very nice and has a weirdly good bass response

have*

but i also just use my german maestro gmp 8.5d's most of the time

I guess for voice control maybe, but you can stream to it from any of your devices
Well, what I've been reading says otherwise. "If you add music to your home iTunes library that was not acquired through a purchase, HomePod will not be able to access it." (Link below.) That means about 99 percent of the music in my library can't be played through this speaker. I tried Apple Music for about a month, but it screwed up my existing library so I dumped it.
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/23/homepod-can-play-purchased-itunes-music-podcasts-and-stream-beats-1-without-apple-music-subscription/