Snake oil thread

Discussion in 'General Audio Discussion' started by Judeus, Oct 12, 2015.

  1. FallingObjects

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    Good god, those are some next level logic jumps.

    SBAF's background is blue. Marvey's screen name uses the English alphabet. The Union Jack has blue on it, and English is the primary language in the UK. The Union Jack has triangles on it. The illuminati's symbol is a triangle.

    Conclusion: SBAF makes your audio sound better. And is also the Illuminati.
     
  2. Aklegal

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    Synergistic Research is the absolute worst. A buddy of mine bought a bunch of these a few years ago https://www.audiogon.com/listings/a...ew-condition-a-2013-02-15-power-88038-gila-nm. Yep that is a power cable with a power cable. At the time Synergistic claimed this cable used quantum tunneling technology.
     
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    [​IMG] Quantum tunneling technology?
     
  4. Armaegis

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    Wow that's quite the in-depth audiogon ad there.

    I tried some Synergistic Research fuses that a friend lent me while I was waiting on some normal replacements in the mail. I'm quite sure they actually sound worse than the stock ones.
     
  5. Thad E Ginathom

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    Stop! You should blame the people!

    Nobody has a right to be that ignorant or stupid. Especially if they have the education to have earned the money to spend on expensive (I don't say good or hifi) audio equipment.
     
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    It always makes me extremely curious if any of these guys spend $10k on complete ideal acoustic treatment (and/or building walls to give optimal acoustics) before they spend $10k on total nonsense. But no, in your completely bare rooms it's the power cable that completely transforms the sound.
     
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    Yes. And is so misleading I can't believe it's legal. What's next? "Using our patent pending Five Dimensional Tesseract Technology you can hear into the mix in multiple universes! No other cable can do this."
     
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    Oh come on, even by pseudoscience standards, everyone knows a tesseract is only four dimensions!
     
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    Only for a 4 dimensional space-time. Higher dimensional tesseracts are possible if there exits higher dimensional space-time. I should have said penteract. :D

    The end of Innerstellar is an example. :punk:
     
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    Oh! That's just what I have been waiting for, because, obviously, it is how the artists wanted me to hear their music.
     
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    I'd hate to look as if I was defending Audioquest in any way, but that is a very, very tough analysis of what, for many people, especially in the business world, passes for normal English. Of course, in that business world, normal use of English is so often avoidance, spin, etc, etc that it also just another example of that. Or those.

    I have only two words to consider re Audioquest: ethernet cables. Audioquest does not need to defend its credibility to me: it has none.
     
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    Lyander Official SBAF Equitable Empathizer

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    As I went to sleep last night, I thought... snakes must have fatty tissue. It must be possible to make oil from them..

    Wouldn't it be earth-shatteringly, wonderfully weird
    if it turned out that this oil reliably, truly and all-tests-passingly improved the performance of audio equipment!

    Just a thought

    :cool:
     

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