What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

Cal91, exactly what I am not. So, I guess you don't have to worry :-)
Now lets get back to the insanity of $2200 fused and $1600 kindergarten wooden sculptures.

@ cal91, this is the problem with this type of communication. You can not see or hear the other person. Expression is totally missing and words never tell the whole story. 
No insult was intended. Millercarbon and mahgister admit to liking this kind of stuff. To each his own. As for never "ridiculed or insulted anyone"?
My backside. Ask audio2design. I sincerely dislike politically correctness.
 

I have to say that cable lifters while doing absolutely nothing look sort of cool and draw attention to those stupidly expensive cables some of us like to buy. It is fashion, nothing else.
As for fuses, they are there just to get U/L approval. U/L operates as if circuit breakers do not exist. Fuses do not protect the equipment. They are there to prevent a fire, but your circuit breakers do that. Lightening, as an example will blow transistors before the fuse has a chance to blow. The equipment winds up protecting the fuse! I bypass them with heavy gauge wire. If an amplifier is going to self destruct the fuse is not going to save it. When my old Krell KMA 100 burned it's output stage, the fuse remained intact and the circuit breaker did not blow. 

I certainly lose on the "knowing no fear" part. The problem with modern digital communication is that you can not see or hear the other person's expression. Expression can turn a statement 180 degrees around. It is frequently not what you say but how you say it. 
Where is cleeds? Have not seen him around in a while.

@daveyf, knock yourself out. Just because you are gullible does not mean the rest of us have to be. I'm really sorry that you wasted your money. My intent was not to attack you. I had no idea you had wasted your money on these things. Frankly I thought everyone would laugh at the silliness of them. I had no idea someone would take them seriously. From an ethical standpoint you can't sell them. Maybe you could donate them to a museum? Maybe millercarbon or mahgister will take them off our hands. 

@audio2design, the first denial would come in about 6 months usually stating "Prior Art." To keep it going for 17 years with lawyers would cost a fortune but I am almost sure the patent office would offer a final denial after they had had enough. 
@grannyring , there is a sucker born every minute and they are the fish these hoodlums' feed on. If you do not know enough to make an intelligent decision ask someone who is. When humans are involved it is always best to doubt everything.
@pokey77 you have to be kidding. I have decided I'm going to make my fortune creating a string of companies that make nothing but audiophile absurdities. You have convinced me there is a growing market for such things. If they can get daveyf for $1500 I bet I can get him for at least $2500. I'll start with a full system demagnetizer (just a fancy power strip you plug all your stuff into) and follow it up with the Phonograph Holographer ( a little box you plug up between your phono stage and preamp, gives you a holographic sound stage.) Next, lets see...ah! The Image Synthesizer, a triangular wooden box 6 feet tall you put in-between your main speakers. Prevents that hole in the middle. It will all work. I promise! Such is the power of psychoacoustics. 

I missed the $2000 fuse. 
@cd318 1+++ You better hope none of the fan boys see this:-)
@jperry  there are plenty of things you don't have to hear, they are that STUPID, more likely to make things worse not better, and there are plenty of people watching this thread that feel exactly the same way they are just more polite than I am. Fine, I'll be that voice.
I'm sorry daveyf but I am under the opinion that your wife had better lock up your credit card. Next you'll be buying a camel to use as a live bass diffuser. 

Jimminy crickets, No everyone, I have not heard them and would never give them that honor. I could make a pair in about 1 hour but do not like wasting my time. Daveyf if you think they make your system sound better, that is the power of psycho acoustics for you. Why the heck would I want to dissipate energy after spending so much money to make as much energy as I possibly can? EMF detrimental? With the system cranked to 95 dB I can not hear my wife pull in in the 911, the refrigerator, the washing machine, the HVAC, my daughter on the elliptical trainer and my whole house buzzing. I would think all that would be more detrimental to sound quality than EMF which has ZERO effect on biological systems such as us. Unfortunately, cell phones do not cause brains to rot. We'll have to come up with something else.
Audio2design, I really enjoy your posts but IMHO you are just too politically correct. Call a spade lug a spade lug. The only change is sound quality these things make is the rattle they make with the floor. You can patent anything by the way. It does not have to work.  

I was hoping to see more ridiculous products and less opining. Here is another one,  https://walkeraudio.com/product/talisman-magnetic-optimizer/  Sad coming from this company. The turntable was the original tour de force of turntables not that I would ever buy one. There are aspects of it's design I personally do not like but, seeing this for sale on it's web site was very disappointing . 

The question is, are there that many rich people that are that gullible? We'll see how long Shakti Innovations lasts. They certainly do not have a long list of successful products.  

1+ syntax :-))))
daveyf, did you actually buy those things? They are a complete and total rip off. They do not do a darn thing to improve the sound of a modern Hi Fi and probably make it worse rattling around on the floor. Stop trying to justify this s--t! I was hoping this was not a site for mysticism but I may have been wrong.

I also appreciate all the tongue in cheek comments. It makes me happy to know so many of you feel the same way I do.

Millercarbon. sometimes you really p--- me off. This was not at all a comment on people who might buy these things. It is a comment on the people who make them and unfortunately sell them. My intent is to keep people from wasting their money on garbage like this.
Lewm, you are close. I could make them in this country for $25 in poplar
Labor, finish and shop time $200. $225 x 3 = $675. This would be the legitimate price if they worked not $1600. So, it is a rip off on all fronts and I told Upscale Audio exactly that. 
I do not see these things in any of the videos of Mikey's system. I would not think any better if he had them.
There are heavy psychological biases in audiophilia. It is just the nature of the thing. You always have to filter this when you make changes and evaluate new gear. Those of us with a scientific education have a responsibility to point things out and attempt to extinguish those who would take advantage of this to make money. In this case the whole thing was made up for just that purpose. I hate it when the pharmaceutical industry dose it and I feel no different here. hat kind of money would always be better spent on equipment, room treatment or flowers for the wife. Talking about the wife I just got sucked into buying new carpet for the media room so the price of my new speakers just went up 5 grand.

@mofojo, SH-T, I'm in the wrong business. For that kind of money I could buy a pile of special burls and make 100 Clamps in a week or so. Then I could buy a Boulder amplifier. 

@lewm  Well then, don't get in between Ford and Chevy guys:-)
By definition none of this is serious. We can't punch each other out over the internet. A lot of this is misinterpreted anyway. Expression is missing and it can be hard to tell when someone is joking. Humans were not designed to communicate this way. It may be the reason young folks have become so politically correct. They live on the internet. 

@lewm , that is why we are here, to get our minds of the serious s--t. 

@theaudiotweak , polarity of shear? I think the problem here is that you will believe everything you hear while audio2design and I do not human nature being what it is. Bud Purvine's invention was so important that nobody uses it although his explanation, blocking the formation of standing waves make a whole lot more sense. It does not work either. Thanks audio2 design for another goofy "Tweak." I can make a pair of those for $10. Nice little antenna. Great for injecting RF into your device!

I like that, Hack your stereo!

mahgister, right now I have no system, I sold my loudspeakers and my new ones are due to be shipped tomorrow. They are Soundlabs 845s and have to be shipped by freight ($1297.00!!) I doubt I will see them for two weeks. My wife also used this as an excuse to redecorate the Media room. She has me making a bar, three stools and a new equipment cabinet/record rack all in Walnut ($12.50 board/foot). She has painted the room a dark blue and is replacing the carpet. I have a 1929 Mason + Hamlin Parlor Grand piano that has to be moved, My new Sota Cosmos Vacuum table has yet to entered production and finally I have additional wrist surgery scheduled for the 19th of March because three screws loosened. Don't hold your breath but I will get to it I promise. My son in law will run the test on two friends that are music buffs. As I am hopelessly biased and considered by many to be an a--hole I will go out for a ride during the test.
Mahgister, l like better sound quality just like anyone here. If Schumann Resonators make my system sound better I'll buy a bunch of them. It is not my style to lie about such things even if some people like cleeds think I am a liar. Is that projection? I don't pull punches. 

Mahgister, you are incredible. All your stuff was created by your brain for your brain. Your ears are just along for the ride. But, whatever makes you happy. Do get the microphone. That will teach you a lot. 

@cleeds , If I did not grate on you cleeds you would not be responding this way. Yes I got suspended for attacking outright stupidity.  Out of my professional role I guess I have a temper. I have it under control. 
I'm sorry you and I can not get along. 

@cleeds , yes, I am a physician and have to deal with human lunacy on a daily basis. But right now I do not have my physician's coat on and none of you are my patients so I can let it fly. I apologize if that upsets you. But, I will no stop either. Every time I see this kind of claptrap I will call it out for what it is.

@audio2design, well said. Thank you.

 Instead of wasting money on worthless trinkets save up for a calibrated mic and impulse measurement program and know for sure what your system is doing. You want to make your system better. Go listen to the best. Have a target to shoot for. Know what is possible. Identify the defects in your system and learn how to correct them. What exactly are you fixing with a Schumann Resonator? The answer is , you have no idea. Every system has problems and in most cases they are unidentified because most audiophiles are running blind depending on their hearing which is a big mistake.  

No mahgister and millercarbon. It is not a joke and I am not the blind one.
Fairy tales are for children. What are you guys scared of? The truth?
The truth is that you men are extraordinarily suggestible. So much so that a cheap little circuit board that does absolutely nothing changes your own sensory evaluation in a significant way. Then you try and rope everyone else into making the same mistake pissing away money on claptrap.
It is you that are the joke and in my humble estimation it is a bad one.

Absolutely, without a doubt, the silliest accessory I have ever seen is the Schumann Resonator. Turns out I have two of them. A present intended for my health from a homeopathic relative. In a few weeks My son in law's brother and fiancée are coming up for the weekend, all young people with excellent hearing. My system should be back up by then. The SRs will be hidden and connected to remote controlled outlets which my wife will operate. As a very biased person I will be excluded from the experiment. 
I these make such a stunning improvement in sound quality it should be a breeze for at least one of four young people to be able to identify the "on" condition consistently.

Clearthink, you are unnecessarily mean. The truth is all of us are being abused by a few whose sole goal is to make money. Since they have the most they can buy anything they want, politicians, the media, anything and anyone. We are all in the same boat and if we can not get together and stand against these forces then we deserve what we get. 

Mahgister, the one thing about humans is they are as a group surprisingly predictable. Rarely one of us exceeds expectations like the Rev Martin Luther King.

@clearthink, Why so defensive? I take no sides. I simply make the observance that there are two groups diametrically opposed. One of the two groups is drinking the Kool-Aid. I leave it up to you to decide which group that is. Our government has been hopelessly corrupt for quite a while. The fact that there are no term limits in congress and no meaningful campaign finance reforms bears witness to this. If I were not so old and entrenched I would move to Canada. At least I would know what I was getting.

@mahgister, I think you have stumbled onto an interesting problem with us humans. When we do not know what is going on we make stuff up. We mythologize. This may have been going on long before H. sapiens cropped up about 200,000 years ago. Zeus was a creative explanation for lightning. There have been millions of myths throughout our time on this planet all firmly taken as gospel in their day. Many had a very difficult death, like the earth is flat. New myths pop up on a daily basis if you care to watch the news.

@mahgister, I am not disagreeing with your statements. Based on the current political situation I would estimate that at least 50% of the population is highly suggestible. But, on what basis are you making these statements, as a matter of experience and opinion or do you have a degree in sociology or psychology? 
Stop apologizing, your posts are always....lenghty. We are use to it.
Social Darwinism is a travesty, the evolution of a species is not.

@tom6897 , Do they leak?

Personally, I prefer mine anodized.

@glupson, Good to know. Very useful. Time for tea.

I use tin foil to line my baking pans so I don't have to clean them after cooking. This makes me happy so I enjoy the music more:-)

@cd318, Very eloquent. Thank you for that.

Mahgister, an anecdote dose not a study make. My wife has a lot of trouble with the truth. She white lies all over the place. She is so prolific at it that I have a hard time telling if she means it or not (compliments). I have no trouble believing her when she has something derogatory to say.
@glupson, can I share the ride? I got pulled over speeding a couple of years ago. The cop wrote me up for reckless driving which in New Hampshire is driving to endanger others or going over 100 mph. I was doing neither. Since reckless driving takes it to a much more serious level I took him to court. He floridly lie about the conditions of the stop. My mouth must have dropped three feet. My lawyer drilled him a new a-- h---
and I won the case. He was a known bad actor in town. He now resides in Alaska. Humans will lie unless it is their own best interest not to.