Can you hear the difference?

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  1. bixby

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    "My stereo is even quieter with a very black background"

    I struggle to fathom what these can be doing. No, I did not buy them a friend did and his quote is above. No idea where he put them.

    At least this one has a wire in it.
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    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DK7J52N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HM9DPT1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
     
  2. E_Schaaf

    E_Schaaf MOT: E.T.A Headphones

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    They only work when facing true north during the new moon, guys I swear please you have to believe me
     
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    Perhaps he sits on it.
     
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    He forgot to turn it on.
    The decorators had sneaked in.

    See... The phenomena are real enough. It is just that there are simple explanations.
     
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    I can confirm that it does indeed make for a great and measurable improvement to my system. I'm afraid I'm not allowed to disclose why this is the case or to divulge the SINAD because, well, the Masons, the Illuminati, and the all-seeing eye...

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    (I love the disgruntled Amazon customer's negative comment: "I feel same aggravated emotions even around it and same feeling of being unprotected. Used for healing and no effect. It just could be me though I am not well tuned just negative and unconnected.")
     
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    It's better to believe the bullshit on a less than $40 item, than some of those megabuck snake-oil cables.
     
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    I remember years ago there was a "fad" of putting disposable razors into a pyramid shaped "box" Supposed to keep the blades sharper much longer. I never tried that, but I swear my free razor tweak gives a bit of extra life to my razors. I run them backwards along the skin of my arm from wrist to elbow about 10 times. Kinda like stropping with a cow leather belt as in old timey barbershop days.
     
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    Seriously I thought society was done with the whole magic crystals, rocks, and ripoff energy alignment I smoke too much weed epoxy with stuff sprinkled inside pyramids.
     
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    Stropping is very much a thing, and could buy one of belts and use instead of your arm. You could put diamond compound, or similar, on it.

    I have a leather-on-wood strop... and have stopped buying scalpel blades.

    Far from it.
     
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    The answer's right there in the quote: They're making that guy perceive that his stereo is even quieter, with a very black background. Cheap at twice the price.

    At least he hears a difference. I've had one of these in my system for 25 years, because -- like the horseshoe that brings good luck even if you're not superstitious -- I suspect that it improves the sound even though nobody can tell.
     
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    I won't even go into all the "stuff" he and others swear by. Especially the $300 beeswax infused fuses.

    Yeah, I went down that rabbit hole with a $70 Furutech fuse. Did it sound better?

    Yes, it did sound "different". So can moving your chair an inch or slouching. I may even give up my fancy $100+ power cords some day. Last night I moved two absorber panels on the front wall by 4-5 inches. Made a bigger difference than any of this "stuff"
     
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    I gotta say tho, It kinda looks cool.
     
  16. Taverius

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    Pyramids are inherently mystical and allow you to manipulate the flow of time, of course they can make the electrical pixies happy.

    Seriously, does nobody read their Pratchett these days? What is schooling coming to.
     
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    I read this as "leather-wood strap-on" ... :eek:
     
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    I heard the deluxe version is tiny pyramids that you sprinkle on your CDs before playing them. Makes "room filling" sound.
     
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    No no, the correct way to improve your experience is to move into an actual pyramid. Have you heard the acoustics in there?? Of course, traditionally the only way to live in a pyramid is to die outside of one, and have your brain removed through your nose, but I contend that no true audiophile should let something as subjective as their brain influence the sound they hear anyway!
     
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    That's what the guys at ASR did: they collectively removed their brains to achieve true objectivity! Clever.
     

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