Speaker wires and interconnect wires are a big scam, what matters most is the size of the cables and the material involved also if the cable is shielded or not a shield will block out more interference which will make the sound somewhat better depending on how much interference you had before so it’s not with who makes it or what gets added to it which adds no benefit only a placebo effect for spending that much money you must feel good about it. If the cable is made from copper and as long as it’s almost pure copper paying 3 dollars a foot is the same as 1000 a foot unless it has gold or some other kind of material that makes it better, for gold carries signal better than copper. Another one is amplifiers that put out low watts for thousands of dollars again this is just another placebo effect considering how much money you are spending and must convince themselves that it’s worth it no matter what for not many like to feel or know that they were beat in the head without first knowing even what the stick was made out of.
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?