RE: Hardware to room play the collection

But come on Fred, there’s free shipping (ground) with your $38,000 speaker cable. Seems like a bargain.


Gerry Pehl,


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On May 26, 2016, at 12:55 PM, Richard Dell [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 5/26/2016 11:07 AM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] wrote:

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Like any "audiophile" forum you have to separate the wheat from the chaff.

> Sorry for the rant, but I’ve been into high-end audio since the 1980s and it’s disgusting how it has devolved into something akin to “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
>
I don't get that "devolved" feeling at all - corksniffers with too
much disposable income have always been around.

Yes, but they waste so many audio industry resources on expensive cable and such.
I always wonder what the industry could better (more usefully) spend that development money on.

There are no engineering resources in the audiophool cable market — those “designs” come from unethical people in marketing.  No engineer with even an hint of skill would spend his time creating 1” diameter AC line cords for people to use on turntables.

The real problem is the many companies making truly superior audio products going bankrupt while immoral firms like Audioquest con gullible (and stupid) consumers into paying $6,900 for AC line cords ( http://www.amazon.com/Audioquest/b/ref=bl_dp_s_web_13979917011 ) and $1,500 for USB cables ( http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-15-5-ft-Cable/dp/B004LR4JJG ).

We need some “big government” funding of the Federal Trade Commission to start shutting down companies and jailing people for making claims like this one for USB cables:

All insulation slows down the signal on the conductor inside. When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio. AudioQuest’s DBS creates a strong, stable electrostatic field which saturates and polarizes (organizes) the molecules of the insulation. This minimizes both energy storage in the insulation and the multiple nonlinear time-delays that occur. Sound appears from a surprisingly black background with unexpected detail and dynamic contrast.

The people responsible for that ad copy should be in “federal pound me in the a** prison” (as they say in the movie Office Space).

Regards,
  Fred Maxwell

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