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Anyone with an engineering background care to explain why this will make my hi-fi sound better by buying $1700 interconnects over my standard £20 leads?:

http://www.elusivedisc.com/dbssystem.htm

If you are not a true believer, you will not be given the gift of enlightened hearing. Faith, devotion and a cheque for $1500 will bring you closer to the Light.

Anyone with an engineering background care to explain why this will make my hi-fi sound better by buying $1700 interconnects over my standard £20 leads?:

I'm afraid that the only thread I ever did this on wasn't really about an explanation, as such - but a direct measured comparison between some rather differenct cables, which revealed that there wasn't really a scrap of difference between them in electrical terms. This is a $1680 placebo (ignoring the difference between $ and £).

Anyone with an engineering background care to explain why this will make my hi-fi sound better by buying $1700 interconnects over my standard £20 leads?:

http://www.elusivedisc.com/dbssystem.htm

I think a psychology background would be more applicable than engineering.    or maybe astrology would be better still.

Anyone with (a lot of) time to spare might want to follow this:

http://www.badscience.net/?p=209

I like the "cashebo effect" name they give to it. Think I'm going to start using it.

I presume you meant cord...

Oops!

...So why not have tuned power cords? If you were going to be a real genius though, I reckon you should have one for the predominant musical key of each piece listened to. That way you could sell 12 of each one for each piece of equipment powered by them... plus the really expensive adjustable one - which should cost at least $5000, I think. Unless it was purified with 16-yr old virgin tears, of course - that should double the price....

Hmmm...
No, no, I think the adjustable one should be far, far more expensive than that, Steve. Otherwise, those listening to a piece played in, say, a 19-tone scale will be getting around this quite neatly.  And we can't let them off the hook that easily, can we? We have to keep up our Marketing Standards here, man.
 

I've posted this somewhere here before, I believe. Lunacy knows no bounds when it comes to high end audio/stereo.

http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=NOB_C37_C&Category_Code=VOLUME&Product_Count=2

Now could you imagine the cost of outfitting your favourite mixer with a set of those...

And this:  http://www.altmann.haan.de/tubeolator/default.htm#pros

A nice racket! (but apparently no longer for sale) 59 Euro for a half-milliliter of lacquer amd half a cotton swab! Just about enough lacquer to get the swab wet.

I've often wondered if there's an upcharge if you order a whole swab...

-Phil

59 Euro for a half-milliliter of lacquer

Or only 118000 euro/litre. I haven't any idea of the price of conformal coating but the markup must be nice. But $489 for a wooden know isn't bad business either (depending on wich end you are).

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/hallograph.htm

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/hallograph.htm

I bet they're laughing all the way to the bank with that one. It really is the Emporer's New Clothes!

Is that REALLY Steve Hoffman on their site?  WHY is he there?  I hope he thought it was just a home decoration or something, in which case he should be told about the use of his pic.  If he REALLY buys into their nonsense, there goes another fallen...well, not idol, but I admired him.

Is that REALLY Steve Hoffman on their site?  WHY is he there?  I hope he thought it was just a home decoration or something, in which case he should be told about the use of his pic.  If he REALLY buys into their nonsense, there goes another fallen...well, not idol, but I admired him.

He may not know. Let's face it, this is a picture of him holding his thumb up. He could be endorsing its value as a dust-collecting knick-knack for all we know. But just having 'golden ears' doesn't mean that he knows anything about acoustics at all, does it? Or maybe he simply doesn't realise what an absolute buffoon this makes him look.

Another mysterious device from this manufacturer, an 'electromagnetic stabilizer', is (according to the site) endorsed or used by a number of studios and individuals, whose names may be familiar to people in the business, I guess.

http://www.shakti-innovations.com/audiovideo.htm

The stabilizer is, apparently, beneficial both for audio equipment and for car engines      

... The stabilizer is, apparently, beneficial both for audio equipment and for car engines      

I bet it also blocks those black UN helicopters and UFOs in their attempts at eavesdropping on our thoughts!    But the hallograph?  Now there's a great idea!  I bet if you put it behind the speakers it really would clean things up in a lot of audiophile rooms... just by moving things away from the walls.  But for $1K, I want something more than exotic wood... I want them in pure unobtainium!

...  and for car engines      

I noticed in all their dyno runs, the "enhanced" run is several minutes after the stock run.  I wonder how much oil temperatures (consider engine, transmission, differential, wheel bearings, etc) has to do with a 1% increase in power delivered to the wheels.