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[Edu Silva]

Buck Buchanan wrote:
 
> Ok, hating to add to an off-the-topic thread, I had to tell this TRUE story.
> I will not release the person or company name in question since they are a "friend."

[ a sad sory snipped ]

> Silly me, trying to design ACTUAL REAL high quality products to sell to poor
> musicians.  Properly packaged snake oil is really where the money is!

Speaking of it... in Pass Labs site ( http://www.passlabs.com/home.html)
there's a good article about "audiophile grade" snake oil ...

The abstract:

"SPEAKER CABLES: Science or Snake Oil
by Nelson Pass 
Reprinted from Speaker Builder, 2/1980

Audiophiles recently began re-examining the performance of every link in
the audio playback chain, and before long their attention turned to the
lowly loudspeaker cable. In response to demand, a number of companies
are producing or distributing new and exotic cables claimed to improve
audio power transmission from amplifier to speaker. Pointing to lower
resistance and inductance, proponents of the newer cables insist they
sound significantly better ("better than an expander!"); however, the
subject is controversial, and some hi-fi notables claim performance
increase is negligible and the higher capacitance of some new cables can
cause amplifier instability and damage."


Edu Silva // ES2 Audio