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Do you consider yourself an audiophile?

Are you an audiophile?

  • Yes

    Votes: 31 13.5%
  • No

    Votes: 83 36.1%
  • Audiophiles are deluded bullshitters

    Votes: 116 50.4%

  • Total voters
    230
Was it any good?

And I agree, the term 'audiophiles' seems to mean people who know nothing of sound production or even physics but take a placebo / alt medicine kind of approach to gear that spending pointless amounts of money seems to bring on.
 
You are insane. My degree is in audio technology and all that. I had to do some quite boring finals in the science, physics of sound and audio equipment. If I wrote what you just did I would be failed and laughed out of university (as it happens I got a first with a distinction *blows on knuckles*).
It is conceivable that if you had 20 meters of normal stereo speaker cable and some amazing, thick and super insulated cable of the same length that you could save .0001 or something of an ultra low and pointless bass freq that could just be made up by blowing on your eq.

Why don't professionals use this cable for instruments, line outs, and patch bays?
A. Because it is a pointless waste of money.
someone else dug this up, but i've got to reply to this

that, in essence, is the whole point of fancy interconnects and speaker cables- they allow someone who wouldn't let an equaliser in the same room as their system change the tone to suit their tastes. cables are eq without equalisers
 
I'm pretty sure in the past I have seen measurements for fancy cables that include high enough capacitance to make a difference to the top end.
 
Interconnects are leads, they are not going to do anything for eq. In my morning haze your idiocy actually angers me. This dickary is on a par with religion and astrology for its scence wrong bullshit .

I totally agree. Most studios are connected together using the same wiring systems as found in telephone exchanges. I always have a laugh when out buying some audio kit at the shit the sales people say to get be to buy and overpriced unnecessary wires. To be fair I don't blame them either cause there are so many gullible audio equipment fools who want to easily part from their money. Directional oxygen free copper cables anyone? £100/m.
 
That whole site looks like a nice little earner. Post up pictures of fancy looking leads wait for some idiot to order at a inflated price before making up a lead. Make two or three leads a month and I'd earn more than I'm on now. This graph describing lead performance is hilarious.

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There is only one thing to say

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The text in the link says its all
Kimber Select KS-1136 interconnect is their new top-of-the-range Balanced analogue interconnect.

The cable's key improvement over the KS-1130 is an increase in the number of shiny things used in its construction. As well as having lower resistance, the cable weave is shinier thanks to the increased number of conductors.

So what else is so good about the KS-1136? Erm. Let me think. How about

The cable uses Kimber's highest purity conductors, Black Pearl silver - very shiny it is too. The conductors are insulated with a high pressure and low temperature applied pure V-Teflon dielectric (the special application process helps to maintain the purity of the silver); the conductors themselves are applied to the cable's core compound simultaneously with a matrix to 'lock' them in place and ensure the precise cable geometry is preserved. Unlike other cables where the ends come off. If you pull on them repeatedly.

It really is a must for those with high-resolution systems out there and that demand the very best from their man servants!

Price shown, is for a Pair of cables. <Satire
 
In honour of page 23 I just realised I haven't annoyed this thread since before the board changes. Still got epic subs.
 
I've been recommended this by a mates boyfriend. Seriously, try not causing offence when someone is raving about "ELECTRET FOIL" you glue to the picture side of the CD :facepalm:

The interaction of all spinning discs with the gravitational force produces energy patterns that adversely affect the human being's ability to correctly perceive sound. The energy patterns created are in the frequency range adjacent to the visual energy spectrum and directly affect our cognitive senses. Narrow strips of this revolutionary, adhesive backed foil, neutralise the adverse energy by inverting the energy pattern and therefore restoring it to a naturally occurring environmental pattern.

http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/ref/ref.html

He told me he's spent over 300 quid with this guy :D :eek: :facepalm:
 
Here's the magic cream he uses:

When applied to specific areas of audio and video equipment, this non toxic polarised cream has a profoundly beneficial effect on the perceived sound.

Whilst Cream-Electret can be beneficially applied to virtually any surface, it is difficult to manufacture and will therefore be expensive for the foreseeable future. We have therefore carefully selected optimum areas for its economic application. It will be found to be more economically effective to apply Cream-Electret to all the fuses within the mains plugs of all electrical appliances throughout a building than to apply Cream-Electret to the whole surface of one shelf assembly. Cream-Electret can be applied by the tip of a finger. Used judiciously, Cream-Electret is the most cost effective audio upgrade available.

The beneficial polarised pattern which can be obtained on a surface by applying Cream-Electret can be scattered and therefore neutralised by the application of most liquids, particularly furniture polishes. It is therefore advisable that Cream-Electret is only applied to surfaces where furniture creams and other liquids are not normally applied. If any liquid is inadvertently applied to any surface which has been treated with Cream-Electret, it is only necessary to dry the surface and reapply a further coating of Cream-Electret.

http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/cream/cream.html

No really, he rubs his cables with magic cream :facepalm: :D

It gets better, you can rub it on your CDs and records (only the label mind):

Apply a thin coating of Cream-Electret to both sides of a Compact Disc. Cream-Electret should not be applied to the playing portion of the vinyl record but a thin coating of Cream-Electret should be carefully applied to the labels on a vinyl record
:D
 
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