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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
twentythreedom said:
Speaker cables for £19,646 per pair, 2.5m length.

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Specs include "multi-layered matrix geometry"

Also "a lower noise floor and even better detail retrieval and transparency".

www.russandrews.com
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I saw some cables in a mate's flat that looked very similar to those! :facepalm:
 
ViolentPanda said:
Give him a kicking for me! Anyone who spends £20,000 on a pair of cables needs an almighty thumping!
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Whip them with the cables. Then claim this is some kind of mystic/psychic whipping that Will help their cables attune themselves to the particular person in question, giving them the sound they want. Then charge them for it.
 
Nylock said:
I just found this gem:

http://www.moonaudio.com/opulence.htm

...and ran the blurb past a colleague of mine... He nearly spat his tea at the truly 'special' bit of technology advertised there :D
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The Opulence incorporates Dark Star, an optional second way of experiencing music which is independent of the drivers in the speaker itself and delivers music into the listeners brain, bypassing the ears
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wtf :D
 
If I was going to spend a million dollars on a stereo I would at least want to buy it off someone who can make a decent classy looking website.
 
...did they cost you £500k each? or for the pair? Did you have to write some bullshit-heavy artist's statement before commencing the build?
 
teuchter said:
So, I recently finished building myself some 2 metre high rear-loaded horn speakers and I love em.

Judge me, thread.
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Did you use Joints, nails, glue or screws to fit them together? Myself, I'd always use classic wood joins, dovetail and the like, because you want to ensure that the resonance frequencies of the wood you've chosen match the soundscape you are wanting to create (what wood did you use? I like a dark mahogany myself, for those rich smooth bass sounds, much better than pine or some other softwood, but if you're making tops and want the treble, that's often the best option), and not be disrupted by foreign materials, especially metals which being electrically conductive can introduce all sorts of instabilities into your system.
All platinum wiring and soldering throughout yeah? sweet. I'll have to come round sometime and suggest some ridiculous piece of equipment/accessory you need to improve your sound in order to assert my dominance over your audio skillz.
 
BigTom said:
Did you use Joints, nails, glue or screws to fit them together? Myself, I'd always use classic wood joins, dovetail and the like, because you want to ensure that the resonance frequencies of the wood you've chosen match the soundscape you are wanting to create (what wood did you use? I like a dark mahogany myself, for those rich smooth bass sounds, much better than pine or some other softwood, but if you're making tops and want the treble, that's often the best option), and not be disrupted by foreign materials, especially metals which being electrically conductive can introduce all sorts of instabilities into your system.
All platinum wiring and soldering throughout yeah? sweet. I'll have to come round sometime and suggest some ridiculous piece of equipment/accessory you need to improve your sound in order to assert my dominance over your audio skillz.
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18mm OSB and Evo-stik Gripfill with a few screws...is this why my soundscape sounds like it is made up of lots of compressed fragments? The mid-bass sounds flaky and the upper treble somewhat gluey. I also feel that the grain of the imaging is randomy orientated. I wish I had had your advice earlier :(

I'm a little concerned that the wires from the cones to the terminals are in blue and brown, because I pulled them from some mains flex. All other speakers I've seen have red and black instead; can you advise on whether this may have a detrimental effect?
 
teuchter said:
I'm a little concerned that the wires from the cones to the terminals are in blue and brown, because I pulled them from some mains flex. All other speakers I've seen have red and black instead; can you advise on whether this may have a detrimental effect?
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They sound ideal for playing the blues and anything with lots of highly resonant sub-bass as you clearly have a blues noise sound pipe and a brown note sound pipe fixed. Forget about those peasants with their black and red noise pipes and their box-wine audio appreciation skills! Unless you are going to be playing music from any anarcho-communist bands (and let's face it, that's a pretty small genre compared to the mighty blues and brown note inducing drum & bass) then you won't be needing the black n'reds. Simple :)
 
e2a. Was just looking at that Ethernet cable. Due to other thread.


What do the idiots buying this stuff think it does. Adds extra bits. Nice super shiny bits. No that would be silly and mess up the CRC in Ethernet. SO I spose it must sort of polish the bits as they flow through. Yeah, that's it.
:facepalm:
 
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