dracule1
Responses from dracule1
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "You apparently don’t seem to know that going to audio stores is no way to audition cables or anything else for that matter. For one thing they keep changing their equipment so much the system never gets a chance to break in. "Geoff, you're so pre... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "Well, of course you can find cables that are much more expensive than your $4K room treatment; however, $4K is much more than most audiophiles spend on cables. Besides, your $4K pales in comparison to what better heeled audiophiles spend on room ... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "dracule1 - why don't you contact the cable manufacturers whose products you find disagreeable & ask them to justify their prices...? Then you can post the response..."Infection, funny that you ask. I did do that at an audio show. One manufact... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "In my experience I have generally found the correlation coefficient between intelligence and economic success to be greater the zero."Watts, do you really talk like this? Have you ever kissed a girl? | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "I never said you did say there’s NO difference between cables. What you keep saying, though, is that there is NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in sound quality between very expensive cables and inexpensive cables. And you yourself provided evidence to t... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Analoglvr"I love this one by Geoff,Two, your contention that blind tests reveal that all expensive cables are no better than cheap cables is either your own puffery and untrue or if you have been involved in a blind test, which BTW I actually doub... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Watts, are you for real? "Operators capable of raising capital must set pricing on the products the capital is used to produce at a level that maximizes the net-present-value of all future cash flows generated by that capital (as determined using ... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Geoff, I have to shake my head at this one again. "However, if you wish to use room treatments as the alternative to expensive wires, a word of caution. Room treatments you know, like the tiny little bowl acoustic resonators, the Synergistic Resea... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Geoff,"Your negative or unsubstantial results actually don’t match what the majority of audiophiles experience with expensive cables, therefore your contention that expensive cables are not worth the price is unfounded."--Says you. I know plenty w... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Stevecham,"I too went down the expensive cables/IC rabbit hole for a few years (Synergistic, Tara, Audioquest, Van Den Hul, Harmonic Technologies and several others) and then found Mapleshade and Anti Cables, the latter brand being what I currentl... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Instead of going off subject, why don't we get back on track. Earlier I posted a list of why I think megaexpensive cables are not worth their price. I hear nothing but silence from those who oppose my views. It's irrelevant what people pay for w... | |
| I used to think passive preamps were superior to active preamps given right the setup, but Audioman58, would you care share who made your preamp? You can PM me if you like. | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "My point is of course you can construct absurd cases where some generic wire might win in a shoot out with a superior wire due to some contrived assemblage of variables. But those case can be thrown out. They’re outliers. You cannot put the genie... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? "Drac’s reference to his friend at Nasa who has unequivocally determined cable’s are scams. Are you to whom he was referring?""I was referring to Drac’s reference to his friend at Nasa who has unequivocally determined cable’s are scams. Are you to... | |
| Are audiophiles still out of their minds? Watts, "Ya but how about bringing up that "I know a guy" who works at NASA and he agrees with me? Now that pretty much clears up this whole topic.Seriously though, I completely agree with your point that an "Appeal to Authority" is often a sophomo... |