Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

thank god that the audiophiles have finally invented a 5 port unmanaged ethernet switch you can spend 4000+ euro on

NB I checked eBay you can get a Juniper EX4200 for like less than $100

an acquaintance observes that the M12 connector, having only two twisted pairs, is insufficient to actually deliver gigabit ethernet, so this dumb thing doesn't even work

https://i.imgur.com/eaa92jl.jpg

psych - this is a real ad

That seems...reasonable? Analogue TV tech remains amazing to me!

Who knew? "Snivets are thin parallel vertical lines which may appear at one or more positions of the reproduced image. It has been suggested that the production of such thin vertical lines is due to Barkhausen oscillations developed in the horizontal output tube."

the history of analog TV tech is fascinating, even more than the history of radio

How does this ... possibly work

https://www.stereogum.com/2101286/oda-speakers-jessica-pratt-madlib-arca-microphones-standing-on-the-corner/news/

Two wireless speakers vibrating across your wooden floor connected by wireless internet... I'm sure this sounds just like being at a concert

The idea is to sit a drink on one of them, and then at some point the speaker treads on your foot and spills the drink on you.

huh...weird

honestly half of it is they are going to put in the instructions that people need properly space the speakers and everyone will be impressed by the stereo field

should probably be in mono to sound live

I've been using a product called a 'record butler' which is just a felt oven glove/circular disc grabber for records ( not even that cool).

it seems to work, or at least enough that its part of my listening at home ritual.

Off topic for this thread as I got it free with a purchase and it probably does the thing its supposed to.

but I can confirm it has stopped the 'holding records so delicately that you drop them and cause more damage than if you had been holding them properly' issue.

Those speakers just look like surface speakers. They've been popular recently with lots of people don't things like this:

https://www.yankodesign.com/2019/07/27/place-this-puck-sized-gadget-on-any-surface-to-transform-it-into-a-vibrating-speaker/

Those look like the vibrating surface, the wood at the front, is built in. Not that different from the paper or plastic cone in normal speakers. I'm unconvinced by the puck things tbh, think you'd need the surface to be relatively free to move, which maybe those speakers improve upon.

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