[sdiy] O/T Hi-Fi Snake Oil - UKP700 power lead

[jvastine]

  Hi list, I thought that many might like to know that Google's Chrome 
browser offers to translate web pages that are not in a language other 
than your systems language setting. This is far easier than trying to 
use BableFish and the web page retains the original layout. This is a 
pretty handy feature as are many others.

While we are on this subject, it's important to note that the beliefs of 
the many individuals buying & selling audiophile snake oil that impact 
their perception of the sound regardless of the physical laws or 
properties. So spending mounds of cash does improve their experience. 
Perhaps this is due in part by removing or suppressing audio filters 
placed by the conscious mind, but who knows for sure.

Now some of you may not fully grasp the notion of the last part, but 
over time our conscious mind learns to filter out what is considered 
irrelevant or unnecessary input. It's like where they say that when 
somebody loses their eyesight their hearing becomes more acute or 
sensitive, but that is false.

You see, the conscious mind only has a limited amount of processing 
power. So when a portion of the input is no longer there, the brain has 
more cycles available to process other things and the result is that the 
individual now becomes aware of things that were always there.

I learned this first hand when I emerged from a coma back in '81. I also 
learned that we have the ability to change or remove our filters as well 
as increase the number of cycles that are available to the conscious 
mind. I should also note that it is possible to go the other way and 
reduce the number of available cycles. The mindless "entertainment" on 
television is a great contributor to the latter as are processed foods, 
but that's another story.

Of course there is also the factor of how one was trained early in life 
impacts there experience. Like how the Asians can hear many syllables 
due to slight variations in pitch where most of the western world only 
hears one. Or how the Japanese have the same word for blue & green and 
thus see the blue sky or a green lawn merely as shades of the same color.

Perhaps all of your beliefs and knowledge limit your experience. What if 
Newtonian physics was wrong and there was something that we've been 
overlooking like in toroidal physics? So is all of this high-end 
audiophile stuff merely just snake oil?

I hope that you find this information helpful.

Peace!

jvastine

On 8/24/2010 5:33 AM, Thomas Strathmann wrote:
> On 8/24/10 12:24 , Scott Nordlund wrote:
>> I'd think you should be at least a little bit tempted to make a special
>> edition Devil Fish with super vintage "tube sound" blue LEDs
>> (guaranteed 100% Class A operation), quantum bass enhancing gold
>> spraypaint, super "acid crystal" rhinestones and solder infused with
>> MDMA, DMT or salvia divinorum, depending on the customer's intended
>> effect upon the listener.
>
> I may have posted this before. Sadly it's only in German though, but I 
> think everyone can appreciate the pictures and the price tag (although 
> the description is truely hilarious):
> http://www.cyborgs.de/synthesizer/projekte/energizer/energizer.htm
> A parody that turned out to be true (see English text at the bottom of 
> the page).
>
>     Thomas
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