Advice on....Snake Oil


So, I get it. You purchase something and other claim it's snake oil. Or they purchase snake oil and you lay claim to the adage. 

My one question,

What is the general consensus a reputable brand would spend considerable time, resources and finances to create a product that is or what some would call "snake oil". 

My belief is that a lot of brands (PS Audio, Isoacoustics, Audioquest) would probably better spend their time developing and creating an impact rather than making a questionable product. Any dialogue to be had or am I off base?
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Showing 3 responses by mahgister

Some suffers from the Messiah complex...

It is not always a big damage inflicted on humanity when someone want to save humanity against its will at all costs...

But not always, imagine one of this little messiah with power and money....Imagine the scale and the level at which his obsession will grow ....You dont have to go very far to see what i means and discover some example of that in the news today...

Here the little messiah are  the "enlightened" one by their homemade version of science also...On the big stage of the world the same drama play....

Pathetic.... Ridiculous.... But finally boring.....Boring in an audio thread for sure....Not boring in the news for sure...






People are funny , vouching for the defense of the gullibles...And the stakes for the snake oilers....

Like if gullibility was on one side of the coin and never on the other....Like if audio problems were simple like their simple mind....

:)


Dont let the so called Snake oil pro-hunters, hide from you the truth:

Any ready made " generic" electronic designed component, need to be rightfully embed in a "specific" triple dimensions in your house and audio system: mechanically,electrically and acoustically...

No audio component being " generic" created in ideal conditions is ready out of the box to gives his optimum working without being protected by resonance and vibrations controls, without being treated against a too high noise floor in your electrical grid and mostly without being located in an acoustically treated room, with passive materials and active devices.


Is it not simple to understand?

By the way i was doing all that with homemade low cost materials and device, NO branded costly tweaks for me...

No tweaks solve this triple embeddings problems anyway.... NOT ONE....

And a bunch of tweaks is not a METHOD to embed your particular audio system  in your particular house....A method begins with systematic listening experiments....

Ok i apologize but newcomers need to know this basic fact....