[sdiy] deprogramming needed from audio-DIY

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Monty, Anthony 'n' all.

At 12:56 AM 2/23/05 -0500, mcb, inc. wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, anthony wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if anyone could share some of the more common ones. Someone
>>referred to them in the context of jokes earlier - I'm curious.
>
>This one is funny enough:  http://www.bedini.com/clarifier.htm.
>*Then* search for people who claim it robbed their cd's of warmth.
>Audiophile:  someone who is neither a musician nor an engineer
>who thinks they're both.

Oh this is a classic. I'd buy one for the "Electromagnetic Beam" alone. 
Specially one that affect polymers. If they could do that, and they're hand 
held, what a great terrorist's weapon. No problem getting them on board a 
jet and better than a laser gun.

A good mate of mine is an "Audiophile". I almost had him convinced that he 
could improve the quality of his CDs if he put them in a microwave oven for 
a few seconds. I guess he knows me too well.

We're talking about a guy who thanked me for explaining about speaker cable 
and how it only cost him half as much as he was going to spend. "Jees I was 
going to spend 1200 bucks a metre till you told me."

(I was actually advocating using lighting flex for more like a dollar a 
metre but oh well.)

Had there have been any real gain in spending 600 bucks odd, per metre on 
speaker cable, I'm sure it was made null and void by the little selector 
switch that allowed him to pump his $5K amp to several locations in his house.

Nice cable though. 4 thick, silicon rubber coated cores in some kind of 
sponge packed silicon rubber outer sheath about 3/4 of an inch thick. Were 
it shielded you could use it as guitar cable or for any other purpose where 
extreme flexibility and minimum tanglement was needed. Which is why he 
plastered it all into his walls where, not only can you not see it, but it 
never gets flexed.

But my current favorite which I think Terry here discovered originally, was 
the company selling an IEC type mains cable which claimed to improve the 
sound quality of anything plugged into it. And so cheap at 150 bucks a 
piece too.

And how inferior speaker cable has "Micro Diodes" form in the metal 
structure which impedes the audio. Here's a clue. Audio is a bi-directional 
signal.

Well, I'm off to put green marker pen on all my CDs. I'm hoping it can 
improve my data as well.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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