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In Reply to: RE: a fraction of the cost??? posted by Mercman on September 02, 2015 at 16:50:05
As usual, you make light of genuine points and cannot accept the hard fact that $20000 will buy you a room with excellent acoustics and electrical properties (such as power supply and cabling) to start with, making a whole population of over-the-moon gadgets unnecessary.
Perhaps you are unaware that one of the contributors to HiFi News did just that to house wiring 'for a fraction of the cost?' years ago and his house became a focal point for auditioning.
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What if these boxes were installed in a room with your suggested modifications?
technical or scientific justification can you provide for doing so? For that amount of money, a musical acoustics consultant can do so intelligently and rid you of boxes that may be worth nothing in a few years' time.
For a tiny fraction of the cost, you can use your computer skills to analyse your room response with professional software and get an understanding of why your gear can sound much better in your home.
Yes, I have done it. I have also done it with room correction hardware and software.
It seems to me that a reviewer needs to have a wider horizon than simply endorsing what a vendor claims about products.
"It seems to me that a reviewer needs to have a wider horizon than simply endorsing what a vendor claims about products."
It appears after reading your comments that I foolishly spent a great deal of time trying to asses the sonic characteristics of these 4 products. It wasn't easy Fred. But I have to remain grounded and not venture off to your alternative universe.
I'm sure my next review of the Kubla-Sosna Realization USB cable will elicit the "Best Of Fred" comments. This cable is $3500 for a 1 meter length.
After that, I will be evaluating the Ayre Codex, a $1795 DAC, headphone amp, and preamp.
Please let me know if I am good to go ahead with these reviews.
not your sweeping statements about 'fraction of cost' and negative comments on non computer products that are not based on scientific/engineering knowledge or on reasoning. You will just need to begin to accept these without trying to whitewash them.
Edits: 09/03/15
Are you referring to my comments on the Esoteric VDRS drive? A truly excellent product, but one that I feel can be matched for much less. I'm just trying to exercise your economy of evaluation Fred.
permanently for much less.
Get it? If you don't, don't bother to prolong the conversation. If you do, I shall not reply.
Yes I get it Fred. And I can use the Shunyata gear in the improved room as well. This stuff is really quite exceptional.
''The noise-filter elements used in the Σ SIGMA AC Cables are entirely passive and non-reactive, meaning they will never get in the way of current flow, nor will they interfere with the power supplies of the components'' and produced a graph of the mains waveform which has been seen many times before, with noise being attenuated in a rather DISTORTED sinewave.
The statement has no rational basis except to suggest that the cable does nothing (or something because it filters and therefore 'interferes').
As I said before, I'd expect a review to be clear and not fudge such matters if you are going to be as positive about it as you are suggesting.
Sorry, can't help further response.
Fred, I agree with you.
The quote is marketing BS. It is sufficiently absurd that it enables me to conclude that either the company's management allows the company's marketing department to put out BS product information over the advice of a competent engineering department, or, the company's engineering department is itself incompetent.
Regardless of explanations given, I would never do business with such companies. Furthermore, when reviewers sing the praises of these kinds of products, they are demonstrating their lack of technical knowledge. This makes me reluctant to credit their ability to correctly ascribe the effect of these "devices".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
If they are non-reactive and don't interfere with the current flow, they don't do anything! Perhaps he meant to say that they don't get in the way of the desired 50/60 Hz power line current.
That statement was given to me from Shunyata.
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