Do you consider yourself an audiophile?
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BigTom
Well-Known Member
£10,000 from me. As long as you keep the towel damp, it acts as a dampener for your system, allowing you to better control your soundspace. I would use it draped over the stand containing your pre-amp/amp/cd player/record deck/etc as this will dampen all the noise that is produced by the mechanicals and electricals of your devices, leaving a purer sound in your room - even when you've already used some of other other products to control these effects, you'll still be shocked at the difference our towel will make - it looks like an ordinary towel but in fact the fibres have been nano-coated with copper to ensure that electrical noises get held within the towel rather than passing through them. A normal towel will dampen mechanical sounds but won't do anything for your electrics - in fact because water is conductive, without the nano-coating of copper, it'd amplify this and make it worse.
Remember - never be without your towel!
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Actaully, just realised I'm missing a trick here.
My post above suggests that tap water or ordinary bottled mineral/distilled water is suiatable for wettening the towel. Obviously this isn't the case - it'll work, kind of, but if you want the best results, you need to buy my special sonic water (tm) which is infused with nano-silver to regulate it's conductivity. The combination of Sonic Water (tm) and the Sonic Towel (tm) will produce the best dampening to isolate your stereo system's extraneous noises, from the sounds you want to get out of your speakers. £1,000/ml.
My post above suggests that tap water or ordinary bottled mineral/distilled water is suiatable for wettening the towel. Obviously this isn't the case - it'll work, kind of, but if you want the best results, you need to buy my special sonic water (tm) which is infused with nano-silver to regulate it's conductivity. The combination of Sonic Water (tm) and the Sonic Towel (tm) will produce the best dampening to isolate your stereo system's extraneous noises, from the sounds you want to get out of your speakers. £1,000/ml.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
You'll have a court case on your hands if you start trying to counterfeit my patented sonic water!
<I'm a little surprised no one on this thread has had a proper go at creating and marketing their own audiophile product yet...>
bi0boy
Power User
I am not a fan of the sticky tape used to attach the cables to the ceiling, and, sadly, the speakers.
The market is crying out for a cable elevation system, perhaps utilising strips of wafer-thin plasticized membrane to which a metal-free adhesive film has been applied using the latest techniques. This would enable fully-customisable elevated cable routing along an infinite number of user-selectable pathways whilst avoiding any of the cross-talk interference that is inherent in non-purpose-built components.
The market is crying out for a cable elevation system, perhaps utilising strips of wafer-thin plasticized membrane to which a metal-free adhesive film has been applied using the latest techniques. This would enable fully-customisable elevated cable routing along an infinite number of user-selectable pathways whilst avoiding any of the cross-talk interference that is inherent in non-purpose-built components.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
You're onto a loser using that kind of brick to hold them down - fucking idiots!
And those walls are all positioned wrongly.
The only thing he's getting right is keeping his feet off the floor.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You're onto a loser using that kind of brick to hold them down - fucking idiots!
And those walls are all positioned wrongly.
The only thing he's getting right is keeping his feet off the floor.
And what's he doing having his vinyl collection in the listening room? You're supposed to keep the vinyl in a temperature and humidity-controlled sealed environment with negative pressure locks at the doors!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...ile-ethernet-cables-to-the-test-in-las-vegas/
The result will be as expected. As will the reaction from all the audiophile twats
The result will be as expected. As will the reaction from all the audiophile twats
Voley
🐀
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...ile-ethernet-cables-to-the-test-in-las-vegas/
The result will be as expected. As will the reaction from all the audiophile twats
Athos
Well-Known Member
There is actually such a product! I saw it on another forum the other day! (In my defence, I was only there trying to find a discontinued replacement stylus for an old table; I am not one of these twats.)
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Athos
Well-Known Member
Yeah, right. Looking for those bamboo needles for your wind-up phonograph, were you?
Yeah, but only if the bamboo has been grown in demagnetised soil, and watered with distilled and deionised H2O.
Actually, a stylus for a 1978 Thorens.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
An organic one, I hope...?Yeah, but only if the bamboo has been grown in demagnetised soil, and watered with distilled and deionised H2O.
Actually, a stylus for a 1978 Thorens.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Yeah, but only if the bamboo has been grown in demagnetised soil, and watered with distilled and deionised H2O.
Actually, a stylus for a 1978 Thorens.
I expect ViolentPanda is sitting on a pile of them.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Afraid not.
I met a guy who works for Naim Audio today, he told me about a customer who bought a £60,000 CD player from them, when the courier came to deliver it the guy was watching, and having seen the courier carrying the package and not holding it horizontally, complained that because of the deviation from horizontal the sound quality would subsequently be sub-optimal and therefore sent it back to be replaced.
Also a story about a pair of £80K speakers that the customer ordered in bespoke colour Ferrari red, not to be used as speakers but to look nice in the garage he kept his never-driven 355 in. Because he liked the shape of them.
Also a story about a pair of £80K speakers that the customer ordered in bespoke colour Ferrari red, not to be used as speakers but to look nice in the garage he kept his never-driven 355 in. Because he liked the shape of them.
editor
hiraethified
"The audiophile’s dilemma: strangers can’t identify $340 cables, either "
Read it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...ree-340-audiophile-cables-make-no-difference/
Black Halo
Well-Known Member
I thought the image was a pisstake until I went to read the article. They're fucking kidding right? Look I prefer buying vinyl from when it was produced originally (as opposed to modern press an MP3 to vinyl) but a "hot stamp"? Fuck off.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Ahaha Ethernet cables? As in cables you plug into devices in order transmit digital data? Ethernet cables costing thousands? I kinda feel sorry for people who believe it's possible to transmit digital data through a ludicrously expensive cable better than a cheap one. I'm also kind of in awe at someone who has the bullshitting skills to convince people to hand over thousands of pounds for an ethernet cable!
ska invita
back on the other side
arse technica?
ars - it's latin dontcha know!arse technica?
ska invita
back on the other side
Jsut checked out these naim people
£500 for a kettle lead http://www.audiot.co.uk/products/naim-power-line-222.aspx
I like how that website is called Audio Idiot
8ball
Decolonise colons!
But but but... they've got fancy silver bit on it!
Love the reviews on that page:
"...Initially, there was a small improvement. After a couple hours, it continued. A couple days later, I was checking my ears... drum kit sounds tighter, more in time (?seriously? yup). That female singer is much more present now. And her backing singers are right behind her. Crystal clear. On a mixture of CDs and, my preferred medium, vinyl, I've been hearing basslines that never existed before. What...
They were there, but it was mush. At first, I thought the bass had disappeared. In fact, it's no longer a clouded entity sitting belligerently in the lower frequencies, now I can hear the melody and where it's going.
You will need to think carefully about this. Four of them is equivalent to a new component, or significant upgrade. Make nice with your local dealer, hopefully they can loan you a set to try at home. Enjoy the journey."
ska invita
back on the other side
i wonder how it works on a kettle?
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Best. Tea. Ever! The boiled water is so much clearer than with the lead that came with the kettle, giving the tea more space allowing a fuller tastescape to emerge. I'll never use a manufacturer's kettle lead again!
ska invita
back on the other side
cant get over the " drum kit sounds tighter, more in time " - genius - all those reviews are clearly written by these professional blaggers, but who would dare to say drum kits are more in time - and because of a kettle lead!
badseed
Mighty but thin.
Love this thread....
I was recently in the market for a new CD player. They seem to be quite hard to find now unless you go to a specialist hi fi dealer.
I ended up buying a second hand kenwood when I went to pick it up the bloke selling it clearly had audiophile tendencies.
He had a listening room and special wiring. To be fair, the speakers looked fucking immense.
He offered to let me listen to his system but I declined. I would have liked to put on my old copy of "Feeding of the 5000" for him.
Nice CD player though and only cost me $50.
I was recently in the market for a new CD player. They seem to be quite hard to find now unless you go to a specialist hi fi dealer.
I ended up buying a second hand kenwood when I went to pick it up the bloke selling it clearly had audiophile tendencies.
He had a listening room and special wiring. To be fair, the speakers looked fucking immense.
He offered to let me listen to his system but I declined. I would have liked to put on my old copy of "Feeding of the 5000" for him.
Nice CD player though and only cost me $50.
badseed
Mighty but thin.
Love the reviews on that page:
"...Initially, there was a small improvement. After a couple hours, it continued. A couple days later, I was checking my ears... drum kit sounds tighter, more in time (?seriously? yup). That female singer is much more present now. And her backing singers are right behind her. Crystal clear. On a mixture of CDs and, my preferred medium, vinyl, I've been hearing basslines that never existed before. What...
They were there, but it was mush. At first, I thought the bass had disappeared. In fact, it's no longer a clouded entity sitting belligerently in the lower frequencies, now I can hear the melody and where it's going.
You will need to think carefully about this. Four of them is equivalent to a new component, or significant upgrade. Make nice with your local dealer, hopefully they can loan you a set to try at home. Enjoy the journey."
It works!!!11!!!
I put on Psychcandy and it sounded like Pet Sounds.
