Audio nonsense

1. You can’t know what will and will not work.

Who exactly is "you"?

Engineers and scientists may not be responsible for this blanket statement of fact.

An Audiophile..The pursuit Of hi-fi perfection. How does that morph to a gullible idiot who gets sucked into the endless number of Yum Yums selling utter crap.

In an upside down and inside out post-modern world where reality television is actually quite the opposite, yum-yums are purveyors of the holy grail.  In the Middle Ages they called such things Indulgences.

Everyone takes home a prize. Which, in a way, is kinda nice and can be very special to a lot of people who are perhaps seeking the love they didn’t receive as a child.

So much fodder for them...

Thankyou for conceding the obvious.

There is something not very fair about shooting fish in a bucket.  I yearn for a challenge.

I at least owe it to myself to try it. I don’t have to understand how or why it works, I just need to try it and see if it works for me.

Isn’t that what being an audiophile is about?

This is something that children want to do at Disneyland or in the candy/toy section at the shops.

As adults, we can normally acknowledge this desire in ourselves at times and make an informed and intelligent decision.  Or not.

@fatdaddy2 My new company will be selling audio NFTs, starting today.  They work, they really work. They'll make your system sound like it has never sounded before. Place your order now, before they sell out (and they surely will).  Don't miss out!

I've had to block the phone numbers of actual NFT brokers who run a similar spiel past me.   They can talk!!  And talk!  The words "no, I'm not interested, goodbye" must be in another frequency to their hearing range.

@artemus_5 I actually experienced the Luxman.

So you’ve had better?

Non fungible tokens. They are something created in cyberspace and they have no intrinsic value except that people with too much money sometimes pay a lot of money for them and some people get very rich selling them. Getting any vibes?

In news just to hand, for everything there is a season.  Purveyors of all manner of out of Earth solutions are working on it.

The Age of Aquarius foretells a shift beyond technological and medical innovations and calls for a better way of working with each other and a greater sense of community spirit. “When we find ourselves in a period of uncertainty, volatility, fear and death, like now, it’s scary,” says Kelly. 

@jpwarren58 Same as arguing against another's faith. Fruitless endeavor.

Sort of, but people of faith normally have a creed, a well formed and reasonably coherent explanation and philosophy for the basis of their belief system.  

Here it is all a bit agnostic - throw a bit in from mystics, psycho acoustics, something to do with electricity but not really, mix it up with a few special ingredients from the book of magic, and away ya go. 

Yes, why bother when the goal posts not only keep changing but may not even exist?  Because these views seek to be mainstream.

You may recall the comment somewhere along the way that given what we know about science and math, an Aeronautical Engineer would have to conclude that Bumble Bees can’t fly.

So given that this is incorrect and maths and science can explain why bees can fly (a fact that was never questioned by anybody), what broader implications does this have for any conclusions that were sought to be relied upon?

That neighbours aren't very smart?

@waytoomuchstuff This forum may be a good source to flush out the pretenders from legitimate products.

The principle is very good on so many levels, but evidence is that the suggested means of implementing it is flawed.

On the other hand, would you support the establishment of an independent regulatory outfit to govern the sale of all products associated with audio industry?  Some already exist, of course, for certification, standards, safety and other reasons.

@waytoomuchstuff The absoluteness of their belief systems are a bit stunning at times.

Subscribing to known and accepted maths and physics that have accumulated over the history of human thought is not a belief system. While this goes back millennia, I do note that it was as recently as 976 AD that the concept of zero was used by a Persian chap, and Fibonnaci introduced this zero thing to Europe in 1202.

Any observation ("stunning") relying on an incorrect assertion that this is a belief system is irrelevant. Something called the Renaissance happened.

Incremental advancements are happening continuously. For example, engineers are working on Class D technology that is far superior than just a few years ago - and Class D has been around for well over half a century (I'm happy to be corrected on that, guessing a bit)..

It is known by diligent and humble engineers that further advancements will continue to be made - possibly not quite sure what they will be, but that’s pretty exciting, innit?

Measurement technology and a knowledge of relevant metrics has advanced substantially, and will probably continue to do so.

So, charge on Bumble Bees!! Trying using some snake oil to lubricate those slide rules?

Particularly when you see them mock and ridicule both the product and the consumer

Uh huh.