The best thing I've bought!

[weatherbox]

One of these days I want to create a web site selling speaker cables wrapped with the shroud of Turin.

When the Temple of Solomon is rebuilt as my listening room, I'm counting on you for ChinaCones made from Moses' teeth to keep my components off the ground, holy as it may be. I don't want angel choirs fucking with my 14-18khz.

[tomberdude]

One of these days I want to create a web site selling speaker cables wrapped with the shroud of Turin.

When the Temple of Solomon is rebuilt as my listening room, I'm counting on you for ChinaCones made from Moses' teeth to keep my components off the ground, holy as it may be. I don't want angle choirs fucking with my 14-18khz.

[dsw]

"those of you watching at home grab the back of your tv and FEEL the power of comedy"

-robin williams

[RefD]

this is now the perfect thread on this subject.

moderators, please make this a sticky.

cos it sure made me sticky.

[rwc]

I think this is the same in pro audio when people do tests that aren't blind with converters, clocks and similar sounding(if not identical sounding) mic preamps.

There's no accounting for what people think they hear.

Any audiophiles in the house?...

Oh, come on. Is there really no line between "guy-who-thinks-best-buy's-featured-floorstanders-are-the-end-all-shizzle-of-sound-reproduction" and someone who uses $500 A/C cords?

[Gentleman Jim]

Am I the only one who is horrified by the high-midrange/low-treble smear caused by the common plastic baggies they put the Brilliant Pebbles in?

I'm thinking of starting a company to sell specially fabricated mylar baggies, (indigo, of course, because that's the equivalent part of the color spectrum that is affected), made by blind Romanian nuns. The manufacturing process will be so super secret that even I won't know it. I'll just have to trust what the nuns' translator tells me when I meet him at the bus station to exchange a briefcase of cash for a shopping bag full of little indigo baggies.

When you hear the vastly increased stereo separation and depth of soundstage you will know that you're so much smarter and more perceptive than any of your friends or family, and they're just calling you an idiot because they're jealous.

[weatherbox]

When you hear the vastly increased stereo separation and depth of soundstage you will know that you're so much smarter and more perceptive than any of your friends or family, and they're just calling you an idiot because they're jealous.

please, like the people who buy that shit have friends.

[Nick Sevilla]

I think this is the same in pro audio when people do tests that aren't blind with converters, clocks and similar sounding(if not identical sounding) mic preamps.

There's no accounting for what people think they hear.

Any audiophiles in the house?...

Oh, come on. Is there really no line between "guy-who-thinks-best-buy's-featured-floorstanders-are-the-end-all-shizzle-of-sound-reproduction" and someone who uses $500 A/C cords?

+1

[calaverasgrandes]

in my other job I am an IT guy. All the time I get refered to as "the audiophile". Which of course I bristle at. I am a knuckle dragging, sleep deprived, solder-burnt audio engineer dammit!

Not one of these suckers buying $100 power cables.

[johnny7]

Any audiophiles in the house?...

Oh, come on. Is there really no line between "guy-who-thinks-best-buy's-featured-floorstanders-are-the-end-all-shizzle-of-sound-reproduction" and someone who uses $500 A/C cords?

Perhaps you are missing the point. The term audiophile has (in some circles) become a pejorative one that refers to the people who make otrageous claims about whatever silly/expensive purchase they make. This website is IMHO poking fun at said "audiophiles". To me, the most hilarious part are the satisfied customer quotes...