Audiophools
Good grief, there must be some really gullible audiophiles about if Denon is selling this:
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
An ethernet patch cable costing $500! *An ethernet patch cable!*. Apparently it even has 'direction markings' for the signal!
You'd think someone who has a hi-fi addiction might also have enough critical thinking ability to see through this kind of thing, but obviously Denon (a major hi-fi manufacturer) doesn't. Shame on them for selling such a blatant rip-off product, and shame on the audiophiles who buy into this snake oil!
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
An ethernet patch cable costing $500! *An ethernet patch cable!*. Apparently it even has 'direction markings' for the signal!
You'd think someone who has a hi-fi addiction might also have enough critical thinking ability to see through this kind of thing, but obviously Denon (a major hi-fi manufacturer) doesn't. Shame on them for selling such a blatant rip-off product, and shame on the audiophiles who buy into this snake oil!
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Good cable prevents signal loss and bit dropping, but there is no way you need cable like that even for long connections.
In any case even if it did work, what you are getting for your money is a load of hyped up shit. For that money I would expect it to come with Gold wire not copper. Sadlly the jack ends look as fragile as any RJ45 plug. Imagine snapping that bit of plastic off man you'd be pissed.
150 smackeroos!
I nearly passed out when he told me!
Funny thing is he was using them with some crappy Sony walkman so he obviously wasn't getting his moneys worth.
Dummy!
I really hope for his sake he was lieing about the price to look cool otherwise that' one big fat uber-mug! :lol:
I never buy expensive earphones, they never last very long no matter what brand they are. A mate of mine bought a pair of Sennheiser in-earphones for about ?80, after about 2-3 months, the left ear had already gone. Waste of dough!!
Yeah if I had to waste 150 quid on headphones, I wouldn't buy one really expensive pair, I'd buy 150 crap pairs from somewhere like Poundland, I can guarentee they'd last a helluva lot longer :D
It was about 1994/95 so Soundblaster cards were replacing Adlib cards all over the shop, and the prices were falling rapidly.
He had paid 30quid A FOOT for some speaker wire....we listened before he installed it and then after his installed it....
..his reaction WOAH!!!! listen to the difference...my reaction...
...erm, its sounds the same.
like most situations like that, I bet you really hurt his feelings too :lol:
Too bastard right he should! I'd have tested him by wiring one speaker using the old wire, and the other with the new, then adjusting the balance from one to the other to make him guess which was which.
Of course, these people always make the argument that you need to have a trained ear.
Backfires if they get it wrong though!
Damn! I was gonna buy one of those but I didn't have enough money left after buying those magic beans last week...
There's been an ongoing saga on the James Randi website in recent months: he offers a million dollar prize to anyone who can demonstrate paranormal abilities that stand up to scientific scrutiny, and last year he extended the challenge to anyone who could tell the difference between a $50 audio cable and the $5000 snake-oil audiophile one that one manufacturer was offering. Surprisingly enough, the manufacturer in question weaselled out of it using the same sort of excuses that the psychics and spoon-benders usually give (there isn't really a million dollars, the experiment will be rigged, we don't need the money anyway, etc).
Doing the same thing for an ethernet cable is bizarre even by those standards though.
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And I always reckoned that using oxygen-free copper cables must cause severe problems if you're into Jarre. :lol:
But perhaps the most notorious rip-off was those expensive green marker pens, marketed to [strike]mugs[/strike] audiophiles to "cure" a nonexistent "problem", that of the laser light used to read a CD being "refracted" and "distorting" playback by being "reflected from the edges".
And even if this marker did anything other than bugger your CDs by dissolving the seal, a cheap one (not necessarily green) would probably also work.
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.One which can be worn at the same time as those pretentious headphones for which you paid ?20,000 and the cat. ;)
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080618
good ol' stef :)
Its crazy what the audio press and manufacturers get people to beleive.
Take for instance the Marantz CD 63. Available in two versions (actually 3 but we will ignore that).
The special editition sold for £350.
One of the selling points of the special adition was that it's chassy was stronger, thicker and more ridged. This they said not only made the CD more durable but improved the bottom end i.e. The lower regions of the bass.
Absolute Bolocks. The signal read of the CD is digital and only converted to analogue on the main PCB in the electronics. How is a stiffer chassy going to affect the electronics.
The only benifit of this is the reduced vibration may mean the lazer does not drop bits due to the CD and transport mechanism vibrating, in witch case you need the music very load and the speaker pointing directy at and close to the CD player.
They did make improvements to the CD63SE (tha capacitors). Now this I can see having some effect.
However, I own a Marantz CD63 and a CD63SE and I can honestly not tell the difference and my amp is a good-un an Audiolab 8000a.
Dude, Kajagoogoo still sounds shit with all that equipement so stop listening to it!
I'll never stop listening to my Hifi. But Kajagoogoo!!??!!?? Beanz your letting yourself down??
I bet Beanz had the spiky bleached Lemal mullet back in the 80's :lol:
Ah but he's too shy to admit it, it's all hush hush.
it took me 19 hours to get that joke :o
is that a bad thing, or a good thing!? :D
A paradox if ever there was one :lol:
That depends on what you were listening too at the time. :D
All that hair gel and spray must be why he's bald now.
Thats down to the unusually high levels of manly testosterone.
Which reacted to the amount of 'Flock of Seagulls' in his vinyl collection the only way it knew how.
Thats a very strange ingredient to put in hair spray. Well I suppose you went to great lengths to make it long and stiff so you could do all manner of things with it.