[sdiy] deprogramming needed from audio-DIY

[Peachey, Dave]

All,

How well I remember . . . Peter Belt.

The rationale for his inventions: "Increasingly dissatisfied with the
results obtained from carefully designed audio equipment in the early
1980's, Peter Belt stumbled across phenomena that were to dramatically alter
the course of his work."  Ah, the fun we had with little bits of black
triangular material applied to resonant surfaces - especially speaker cones
- and the arguments to be read in the hi-fi press!

This one probably takes the biscuit
http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/quantum/quantum.html (a mere snip at
UKP500 each - and very generously "Extended payment time can be arranged for
this item on a zero interest basis.") but much else on that site is worthy
of investigation - especially the price list
http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/price.html.

Cheers
Dave

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> From:	owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [SMTP:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Batz Goodfortune
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:41 AM
> To:	mcb, inc.; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject:	Re: [sdiy] deprogramming needed from audio-DIY
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> 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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