Anything claiming to use the principles of Quantum Physics to make their products better. Some cable manufacturers in particular but other dubious products a well. The experiments involved to show how QP interacts in the non quantum realm is so esoteric & difficult to manifest it cannot be overstated. This was happening well before say Quantum computing was being researched, which has no timeline for being practicable on any definable horizon. Yes, it's true the transistor was completely the result of QP principles leveraged but the odds of anyone stumbling onto anything else that does so & w/o the government research budgets the transistor had do not rise to the level of being infinitesimal. Thee are perhaps good products claiming QP is a factor but they clearly have no idea what they're talking about or are just embracing their own cynicism in lying about it.
Biggest audio hoaxes
Often when people discuss audio, they talk about "snake oil" or "hoaxes."
It's pretty typical to use the term hoax as a tactic against another who disagrees with one, or holds an unusual opinion or vouches for something which has not been verified. That's not what I mean by a "hoax."
By "hoax" I mean an audio product or claim which has been pretty definitively disproved. Maybe not to everyone's satisfaction, but to common consensus.
So -- with that definition of hoax in mind, what are some of the biggest audiophile hoaxes you've heard of?
It's pretty typical to use the term hoax as a tactic against another who disagrees with one, or holds an unusual opinion or vouches for something which has not been verified. That's not what I mean by a "hoax."
By "hoax" I mean an audio product or claim which has been pretty definitively disproved. Maybe not to everyone's satisfaction, but to common consensus.
So -- with that definition of hoax in mind, what are some of the biggest audiophile hoaxes you've heard of?