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| Model: | Resolution Enhancement for CD and DVD playback |
| Category: | Accessory |
| Suggested Retail Price: | $30 |
| Description: | simple CD and DVD tweak |
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| Review by chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com (A) on March 02, 2003 at 14:27:05 IP Address: 62.64.215.198 | Add Your Review for the Resolution Enhancement for CD and DVD playback |
Imagine how devastating an experience it would be if you'd spent thousands of pounds/dollars and hundreds of hours auditioning/evaluating equipment, not to mention the many tweaks/soldering/repositioning/tampering episodes that go hand in hand with the darwinian evolution of an audio system, only to discover a simple device that NEGATES all the effort and cash.The RAIN TINGE is such a device; hand on kidney, I cannot stress enough just what a life enhancing experience my association with the RAIN TINGE has been. Where once I was simply existing, tredding water in a vain attempt to prevent life's mundaneness from dragging me down, now I have risen like the proverbial phoenix and do soar like an eagle - king of all I survey.
Ladies and gentlemen, roll-up roll-up and listen intently to what I have to say; pull your chairs closer and quiver in anticipation, remembering how you felt when as small children you approached Santa's Grotto, hoping that you would be the proud recipient of that large red parcel to his right rather than the pathetically disguised bat and ball set to his left.
May god strike me down with a feather-duster if I lie, but the RAIN TINGE when applied to my nieces Sony Discman resulted in a bottom end radiating from her micro speakers that caused my diaphram to rupture.
As Elvis is my witness, a brief period of hospitalisation later I again - cautiously - exposed myself to the wonderous effect of the RAIN TINGE CD enhancement, this time using the same Sony Discman feeding a budget HT receiver into a pair of cheapo Mission speakers; can't remember the model but they were really cheap and came supplied with a midi-system.
On carefully inserting 'The Three Tenors' and pressing 'play', I eagerly waited for the disc to cue up.
Next thing I know I'm AT THE GIG!
I tell you, Luciano Pavarotti was stood so close I could smell his armpits, and his spittle could literally be felt to spray my forehead whenever the sibilent 's' was used.
Placido Domingo's off the mic "stop hogging the stage you fat diva" comments were clearly evident, as were the other, short guy's "can I have a sing yet...please? I'm down here.....".
All in all it was an out of this universe experience that was impossible to walk away from, and if it were not for the police (and police dog) forcing their way into my house after 11 days of 'The Three Tenors' on repeat my weight could well have drifted below the 6 stones, and my rehabilitation would have been impossible.
Once again, after a brief period of hospitalisation I gingerly returned to my listening room for a final assessment of the RAIN TINGE but you can imagine my dispare at finding two unfortunate police officers slumped on my sofa after being seduced by the RAIN TINGE effect - the aforementioned police dog already having eaten the right foot of one officer who was too mesmerised to notice the pain.
Eventually the paramedics removed the offending bodies and with great trepidation I inserted another 'The Three Tenors' CD which HAD NOT been subjected to the RAIN TINGE.
A few seconds later the Sony discman was revealed as the low-fi source of old with Luciano, Placido and the short one nobody knows reduced to three guys at a karaoke - Pop Idol rejects of the lowest order.
Finally, what everyone must understand is that I am a compulsive obsessive fabricator of reviews and my opinion isn't worth Jack, and my review of the RAIN TINGE is in advance of actually having used it.
| Product Weakness: | Supply will never keep up with demand. |
| Product Strengths: | Makes downloaded MPEGs sound like Master-tapes, even through PC speakers. The high-end as we know it is extinct; sell all your gear on ebay before the truth is revealed to all. |
| Associated Equipment for this Review: | |
| Amplifier: | Cheapo HT receiver. |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | none |
| Sources (CDP/Turntable): | Sony Discman. |
| Speakers: | Cheapo Missions - very cheap low-fi. |
| Cables/Interconnects: | bell wire. |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | 'The Two Tenors' (and the other one; looks like a slimline Danny DeVito). |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 15' x 15' x 8' |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | Square room full of stuff and me. |
| Time Period/Length of Audition: | All too brief. |
| Other (Power Conditioner etc.): | none needed with the RAIN TINGE |
| Type of Audition/Review: | Home Audition |
Follow Ups:
...may I give you some feedback on Josep Carreras (the other, short guy...).
Perhaps because I am also a Catalan from Barcelona and a supporter of the same football (soccer) club.
Perhaps because he is dedicating great efforts and money to a leukaemia research fund (after he himself went through this horrible disease years ago and survived).
Perhaps that's why I've found this otherwise very funny post/pre-view
a little sour.
Mind you I don't like the Three Tenors at all or, for the matter Pavarotti or Domingo.
To be seen as pertaining to audio reviewers.clark
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Read any good books lately?By David Sexton, literary editor, Evening Standard
24 February 2003Book reviewers always have one question, at the point of accepting a
commission: "How long is it?" They are not hoping, as buyers of
mass-market fiction usually are, that it's a really good substantial
read. They are praying that the book is not too long.Reviewing books is not a particularly well-paid form of journalism and
it takes time. A book of any more ambition than a thriller can't be
read for review at a rate of more than 40, or at most 60, pages an
hour. Some books are only 120-pages long and can comfortably be
digested in a couple of hours. Others, though, are 400, or 600 pages,
or, in some dreadful instances, even more, and they can easily take
days to get through.The reviewer's fee, however, usually remains the same. So, shocking as
it may seem, the truth is that some reviewers skip some books. And
there are a few who skip through all the books.They have to be good to get away with it. The more conscientious
reviewers enjoy a privileged position. They are able to see the book
before anybody else. So they can perform a useful task by simply
describing it to a readership which has not had that advantage. What's
more, while it is not so easy as you may think to have complete and
certain knowledge of a longish text, it's a doddle compared to
acquiring complete and certain knowledge of the outside world, which
most other journalists have to attempt. The whole thing is right
there, on your desk. You can check your facts until you are sure. Some
books even have an index.Yet, believe it or not, there are reviewers who just throw away such a
head start. In the States, one such has just come to grief. In the New
York Times Book Review, a professor of creative writing, Beverly
Lowry, reviewed a book by one of the people involved in the Whitewater
affair, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk by Susan McDougal. An Arkansas
newspaper columnist, Gene Lyons, soon spotted that Lowry's review
contained a basic error about whether or not the author eventually
testified in court (she did)."Yo, Beverly. Next time, read the damned book," he urged, arguing that
"assuming minimal competence, Lowry simply cannot have done so".The New York Times has subsequently had to publish a correction.
Most reviewers who don't read the whole book take greater care than
this to avoid exposing themselves. They take issue only with specific
sections of the work. They never make sweeping negative assertions
("there is no mention anywhere in this book of ..."). They deliver
wellturned essays about subjects they already know about (Napoleon,
say, or the national health) and then add just a few kind words about
the publication in hand ("as X says, in this lively account").Most particularly, they do not write scathing condemnations, for
authors are more inclined to forgive errors when they come floating in
a warm bath of praise than when they come coated in vitriol. Evelyn
Waugh said that when he began reviewing he followed a simple rule,
never to give a notice to a book he had not read. Sidney Smith
famously went further: "I never read a book before reviewing it; it
prejudices a man so."Following these simple precepts, many of our best known and, in some
ways, our best reviewers have been able to carry on undetected for
year after year. These are the contributors that literary editors know
can be relied upon never to turn down a commission and then to deliver
publishable copy far quicker than the dullards who insist on first
plodding through every word. Indeed, sometimes our wizards don't plod
through any words at all.My predecessor as literary editor in this paper, A.N. Wilson, told a
remarkable story in a book of essays called Secrets of the Press. He
had rung the historian Paul Johnson to ask him to review a big book -
more than 800 pages - on the American Civil War. To give Johnson more
time, Wilson asked his assistant to have it biked over that same day.
The next morning, she admitted she had forgotten to send it and that
it was still sitting on her desk.At that moment, "the fax machine had begun to whirr into action, and
800 perfectly formed words on the American Civil War, with observant
comments on the merits and faults of the book, had dropped into the
intray. I saw no reason not to publish this review", says Wilson.
"Like all really good journalists, Paul had somehow intuited the true
nature of the thing under discussion."Now, A.N. Wilson believes all journalism to be a form of imaginative
literature rather than "an exact science", so this incident, too, may
have been somewhat shaped by the crebadative impulse. But we must
believe him, when in the same piece, he cheerfully announces: "I have
lost count of the number of dull books I have hailed as masterpieces,
rather than trouble myself to finish."Few other professional reviewers, however, so blithely divulge their
working methods. When it was suggested that he did not read all of the
books he reviewed, the historian Norman Stone protested and won an
apology - even though many of his undergraduates at Cambridge still
seem to remember him dictating pieces on the phone in somewhat
improvisatory fashion, while urgently riffling through the volume in
question.Literary editors say they can always spot such reviews - appearing in
other pages than their own. "I read a review recently of Paul Auster's
latest novel, which I also reviewed," says Erica Wagner of The Times.
"Throughout the whole review the main character's name was wrong. That
was striking to me."Another editor, on a Sunday paper, optimistically says of one
reviewer, a medical specialist, that he "may be a quick reader", but
he is a little more sceptical of another prominent historian. "Some
people turn it round so quickly they can't possibly have read it."
But, in any case, reading the words per se is not all that matters, he
suggests. With some well-known reviewers, a pre-lunch and a postlunch
review are quite different to the experienced eye. "If they do it
after lunch, they might as well not have read the book."Is this all so shocking? After all, in private life, nobody sane reads
all books through. Dr Johnson was positively scornful of the practice.
When told that a clergyman recommended it, he called it strange
advice. "A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one
thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?"Pointing to Captain Cook's three volumes about his Voyage to the
Pacific, this Johnson asked: "Who will read them through? A man had
better work his way before the mast, than read them through; they will
be eaten by rats and mice, before they are read through." And he
followed his own advice. "He had a peculiar facility in seizing at
once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour
of perusing it from beginning to end," said Boswell.But although many reviewers would like to think so, they are not Dr
Johnson and they are not private citizens either. They are there
professionally, to try these books to the end on our behalf and save
us from the trouble. They are like the canaries that used to be sent
down the mines, to be asphyxiated if necessary, as a signal to the
rest of us.Or, let us say now, like the chickens that are to be carried into
battle in the Gulf on top of American tanks in a similar role - as
Poultry Chemical Confirmation Detectors. Tough work, yes, but
somebody's got to do it.So no shirking - and no skipping, please.
nt
I believe all--I mean, a-l-l--of you have been duped.This reviewer, and I know him well, is capable of much
more than some simple little satire. It is a satire of
satirizing. The reviewer is making fun of YOU people by
making fun of making fun. Seriously. It turns out that
it is an entirely serious review. You all missed it.
WS
Rain Tinge is a scam product, that really exists, or did two years ago. Studio Point just does not get the point that we all think he is a shill for this worthless junk. AA either is clueless about the issue or being too cute.
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Posted by Cleaner on August 09, 2001 at 12:32:04
Here we freaking go! Won't be able to play with this mess of crap until this weekend. I'll probably need a bottle or two of cheap wine to find the courage to go through with it. What I will do is give you a list of what came in the bag, yes....a bag! This way all of you inmates can have a field day with it until the big day.
This is no bull___t!
item #1 - an 18 inch undercounter flourescent fixture with a 6 foot extension cord.
item #2 - a 16 inch square off-white shop rag. (clean)
item #3 - five colored squares the size of a CD printed on photo quality paper labled as " Skim & Hop Order #'s 1 thru 5. Colors are as follows:
light brown - medium brown - light green - dark brown -
medium blue. All labled in that order.
item #4 - instruction sheet along with a drawing. Thank heavens for the drawing, I think i'll need it.
Have fun with this until I post a non-review.
Regards,
Dan
p.s. I don't feel bad at all about dropping 30 bucks on this, it was worth the the laugh - a big one at that! I could only imagine how the people who spent a 100 on it felt. I hope they got their money back. As for me, they can keep my money. Hey! wait a minute, what if this thing really works. HMMMMM!
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You have studies to back that claim up?clark, AES member
Here here Clark; Tromatic's experiences are the exact equal of mine, yet for me the glass is definately half-full.Notwithstanding having never used the RAIN TINGE, I found that posting my account BEFORE using the RAIN TINGE negated any spurious placebo effect which could render my review meaningless.
The contaminating aspects of cables, power-cords and listener bias are also banished to the likes of Stereophile, as is the system dependency issue.
In short, I believe that audio reviewing has been revolutionised by my unique hands-off approach, just as high-end audio has been revolutionised by the RAIN TINGE digital enhancement.
Expect to see the likes of JA, Kal, Sam Tellig and the gang on a street corner near you attempting to pawn their respective magazine's reference system components as room heaters, door-stops or paper weights.
Best Regards,
Chris Redmond.
I drool with anticipation here in Mudville...
...and it (and therefore God) are highly overrated.By applying Rain Tinge to Joly speakers, the universe stopped expanding and instantly collapsed to a single dimensionless point.
Bummer.
Just to be serious for a second, contrary to what has always been assumed, the expansion of the universe is accelerating rather than slowing down.Last time I heard there was a lot of chin scratching going on by very confused scientists who were insisting the measurements/data were flawed.
Best Regards,
Chris Redmond.
Here I am, on my Moped, a Discman in my Tune Belt with the Rain Tinge recreating the Partridge Family so realistically through my Koss earbuds that I am certain to experience total sonic nirvana while JUST about to get to the end of the universe AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO SPOIL THE ENDING FOR ME?
Frank P
--the Party Pooper.
On the seventh day, God sprayed Rain Tinge over the earth. And He saw that it was good....
They presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and Rain Tinge.
...
I better stop now.
; ^)
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This review is simply a masterpiece, and I [for many, I am sure] congratulate you on your immaculate perception.Nice way to end this odd week. :)
Later
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(nt)
Climbing over those roofs just after christmas did not help, I have not laughed so hard for a long time.
I'm also suprised you know about rain coming from your neck of the woods.Regards Dave
"...my review of the RAIN TINGE is in advance of actually having used it"great idea - eliminates any chance of bias that might develope during actual use
There are articles written fairly by high ranking audiophiles about: the green ink, the black ink, the cables, the burn in, the power supply, the massive 100 pounds CD player, the digital bashing, and a very long list of new digital break throughs month after months, year after years. Hardly any high ranking audiophile ever decides what is the ultimate digital and go show it to studio professionals or the industry. Rain Tinge simply got praised in the studio professional article before any high ranking audiophile ever say one good word or bad word about it. Studio professional praising a tweak is almost like Claudia Schiffer and Sharon Stone wanting a your body. If Rain Tinge tweak beat the impossible odds of impressing studio professional, I'm sure my odds of impressing Sharon Stone and Cladia Schiffer are much better. Isn't humor more fun in a pleasant way, not cruel distorted way?
What or who are "high-ranking audiophiles"? Are they born to that postion? Made in a factory? Elected? Your studio "professionals" should spend more time making good recordings, rather than playing with toys. Hang in there, they are working on a cure.
Matthew
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Posted by Cleaner on August 09, 2001 at 12:32:04Here we freaking go! Won't be able to play with this mess of crap until this weekend. I'll probably need a bottle or two of cheap wine to find the courage to go through with it. What I will do is give you a list of what came in the bag, yes....a bag! This way all of you inmates can have a field day with it until the big day.
This is no bull___t!
item #1 - an 18 inch undercounter flourescent fixture with a 6 foot extension cord.
item #2 - a 16 inch square off-white shop rag. (clean)
item #3 - five colored squares the size of a CD printed on photo quality paper labled as " Skim & Hop Order #'s 1 thru 5. Colors are as follows:
light brown - medium brown - light green - dark brown -
medium blue. All labled in that order.
item #4 - instruction sheet along with a drawing. Thank heavens for the drawing, I think i'll need it.
Have fun with this until I post a non-review.
Regards,
Dan
p.s. I don't feel bad at all about dropping 30 bucks on this, it was worth the the laugh - a big one at that! I could only imagine how the people who spent a 100 on it felt. I hope they got their money back. As for me, they can keep my money. Hey! wait a minute, what if this thing really works. HMMMMM!
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I think you'll find that 'ranking' is a spelling mistake.Best Regards,
Chris Wedmond....sorry, Redmond.
Even my tortoises....."looks like a slimline Danny DeVito"
Hilarious............
Thanks for once again taking the time and effort to make people chuckle.
-PatrickDo you think it could restore the 16 y.o. paint job on my car? If I use it on my 3-wood, would it keep my shots straighter? Would it make me more handsome if I applied it as make-up? Would it lower my interest rate and instantly add 3 inches to my...never mind.
... what would happen if you sprayed some Rain Tinge on Pavarotii's throat as he sang live!
The only problem is the Point-head will miss the point.
Matthew
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