Ray Garrison Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I bumped across the following items while browsing rec.audio.high-end and, after picking my jaw up off the floor, thought you folks might appreciate the truly awsome level of absurdity presented by: The gigahertz range supertweeter The magic chip (?) that fixes timing problems with CD's within two seconds by being placed atop the player The best sounding wooden knob for your volume control, only $480... Anyone else have anything to contribute? Don't count $15,000 cables, at least they do conduct electricity. How about the truly, spectacularly, blatently stupid / dishonest? We can honor the winner with the First Annual Peter Belt Paperclip award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olorin Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Brilliant Pebbles. Amazingly, all this stuff so far is at machinadynamica.com. I remembered reading about these fruity pebbles awhile ago, and was surprised -- though I guess I shouldn't have been -- to find them at the same place you found your stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Not really audio related but anything that promises to enlarge your manhood that does not involve a surgical procedure should be regarded as somewhat suspect...er...put that another way....lying their A$$ off actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Well, the supertweeter looks well made. Wonder if it will repel roaches and other household pests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 So, the magic chip is just placed on top of a CD player and fixes jitter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painful Reality Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I especially like the Super Tweeter... According to this should my stereo sound better with the microwave oven running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 That supertweeter is interesting, but how do they account for the filters that remove all info above 22kHz? Seems like a silly waste of time to me. Oh btw, I can hear dog whistles (or at least used to be able to...haven't tried in a while) so theoretically I should be able to hear them (and thus, time alignment and crossovers and all that crap would come into play). Seems silly to me and how they heck do they get a diaphragm to vibrate at 1gHz? Doesn't the air in the room resonate at a lower frequency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtaylor Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 ---------------- On 1/11/2005 4:11:17 PM paulparrot wrote: So, the magic chip is just placed on top of a CD player and fixes jitter? ---------------- No, I believe their claim is that it modifies the CD itself, I believe I believe I believe I believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 endorsed by steve hoffman no less! my electromagnitism needs stabilizing from a rock! how about expensive plugs, never mind they plug into your cheap wall outlet and home wiring...oh you could buy an expensive wall outlet, and re-qire the house... "I always wanted a horn sound for my dynamic speakers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 ---------------- On 1/11/2005 6:17:08 PM sunnysal wrote: endorsed by steve hoffman no less! ---------------- The thing that looks like a candelabra, and costs a thousand dollars a pair, is to break up standing waves. It was quite funny at the Hoffman forum when someone pointed out that a coatrack would do the same exact thing. Hoffman went ballistic that anyone would question him. Then he admitted that he was peeved anyway because Shakti didn't give him a free one like he had expected they would for his endorsement. You gotta love their breathless ad copy: *****Activated panels generate a musically complimentary reflective energy that transforms your listening room by overshadowing typical room distortions which muddy the bass, overbrighten the presentation and blur the soundstage. The Ambient detail of the original recording site is now finally revealed in all its glory. Beta testers were stunned by the level of musical improvement they were able to achieve when the prototype Hallograph arrays were put into their systems.***** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtaylor Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Sunnysal that horn thingie is really strange, makes me dizzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 ---------------- On 1/11/2005 5:13:44 PM DrWho wrote: That supertweeter is interesting, but how do they account for the filters that remove all info above 22kHz? Seems like a silly waste of time to me. Oh btw, I can hear dog whistles (or at least used to be able to...haven't tried in a while) so theoretically I should be able to hear them (and thus, time alignment and crossovers and all that crap would come into play). Seems silly to me and how they heck do they get a diaphragm to vibrate at 1gHz? Doesn't the air in the room resonate at a lower frequency? ---------------- there is no way that there can me a diaphram in there, it has to be a osicilator of some type that is in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-MAN Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Yeah, well, MY tweeter goes SOOO high that it has to be licensed by the FCC as a type B transmission device! It will also track in coming missiles and warm up my coffee! DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I just had to laugh----I saw the photograph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 This seems to be the perfect thread to mention a discovery I made this past week. I own two pugs and while listening to music one of them left a package in the corner of my room. Besides the smell, I noticed an immediate improvement in the sound of my system. The highs were higher, the lows were lower, midrange was more evident & sound stage was improved. There definitely was an increase in energy flow in the higher harmonics. Trust me, it was out of this world listening experience. For a tidy fee I am willing to bring one pug (you can get both for 1 1/2 times the normal price) over to your music room for a limited engagement to make a special listening device deposit on your floor. You won't believe the difference it can make and this is high quality acoustic material. Copy rights are pending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I always get a kick out of the product guaranteed to correct male erectile disfunction. Comes in a small tube with very, very small print stating, "must be liberally applied by a female between the ages of 18 and 25." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Dude you are definitely on to something. The smell alone would guarantee to heighten all of your senses, it would be like you are there!(at the dog pound, listening to a stereo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deang Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 "I dabbed our brand new, silver-saturated, hyper conductive contact lube on the AC plug of my $99 boom box. Then I dabbed it on every plug and lug of a $100,000 dream system. Stunning results on both! For 3 cents a plug, violins gained a gloriously sweet sheen. Delicate acoustic guitar overtones stood unveiled. The scream of over-driven electric guitars cut through with extra edge and punch. Floor beams shivered with the new impact of contrabass, organ and tympani." "Silclear is the first-ever silver contact lube optimized for good sound, not thermal conductivity. The secret is microscopically thin silver platelets (a millionth inch thin; 8 square feet of surface per gram!) to enhance beneficial skin effect. The unique binder for these platelets is an ultra-pure, low dielectric absorption, food-grade grease to minimize signal loss/smearing. The thinnest possible coating lasts 10 to 20 unpluggings. Comes in a 14-gram jar (with applicator) that treats 1000+ connectors." SILCLEAR: $35.00+Shipping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v3spitfire Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Well, we can all agree that the wood volume knob would make an audible difference. Afterall, many of the finest instruments are made of wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minn_male42 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Here ya go! Everyone NEEDS a dryer cable made by Monster Cable! http://www.monstercable.com/productPage.asp?pin=1727 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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