Audio nonsense

Boutiqe fuses, cable lifters, ridiculously priced power cords, speaker wires and signal wires. 

@dill 

I have not tried jumping off a cliff but i do not have to try it to find out that it will kill me. Some snake oils are so much more oily and ridiculous, i do not even have to listen to the rest of the sales pitch beyond the first word. 

@perkri

I can recommend a good audiologist and maybe even a psychiatrist if you are hearing things....

Anyone on this forum over about 35-40 years of age should have some humility and not claim and pretend they can hear things even a dog cannot hear.

No wonder 99% of the time almost everyone claiming to be an audiophile fails double blind tests.

Once and for all. What you think you are hearing is NOT an improvement, it is simply NOT there. It is in your mind.

Interesting that out of hundreds of these gimmicky snake oil products, noone ever claims that it made the sound worse. Funny....

@perkri

If you want to go into a pi...g contest about credentials, be my guest.

And yes I have built audio gear. I have worked with RF, which is at least a 1000 times more complex than building audio frequency gear. I am an electronics engineer, graduated from UMIST in the UK, who is now working as a senior software engineer at Broadcom. I have been in electronics, communications and software for the past 25 or so years.

The absolute drivel I hear in this forum even beats the quora politicians forum.

As I also previously stated in one of my very early posts, the only reason I continue to remain on it is because luckily, there are still some people here who know what they are talking about and are helpful.

Thanks @mijostyn 

I guess most people are STILL.... missing the point :-)

Nobody is criticizing the sound you listen to and like. It may be full of distortion, artifacts or perfect. If you LIKE listening to it, good for you. Nobody cares. Love of sound is subjective.

What is untrue however is when people claim that these snake oil products make a DIFFERENCE in the SAME product that they listen to. Like fuses and ethernet wires or cable lifters. If you had a compliant Ethernet wire to begin with, there will be NO difference in what you hear, nada, zero, zilch.

Someone before gave an example of a capacitor change in a crossover. That WILL make a difference. Because capacitors are NOT snake oil products.  We are talking about snake oil products ONLY.

Please go back and read the posts... CAREFULLY.

Thank you all :-)

@dill Yes. Please send me your list and I will categorize them for you with even an "oilyness factor" number.  After all, it is not brain surgery, very simple and logical. 

@perkri

STILL missing the point ......

Anyway.....

Happy delusions to all who believe :)

I have never understood why having a flat frequency response for speakers is a desirable attribute when the human ear hears almost every frequency differently, as described in the Fletcher Munson curves.

My ideal frequency response is equivalent of when the old but now shunned 'loudness' feature is turned on....