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Several comments…

1- I see no reason for him or anyone to disregard the evidence of his own ears. If he doesn't hear anything, that means he doesn't hear anything and he definitely shouldn't spend money on it. If he doesn't h ear anything, however, that doesn't mean that no one else can hear anything. Others may hear something. If some people hear something and some don't, then there may or may not be something audible resulting from the item. People can and do make mistakes, and that's just as true of those who don't hear something as of those who do. Ultimately we all have to make our mind up about whether what we hear is worth the cost, and that's as true of the differences we hear between 2 different pairs of speakers we're auditioning as it is of the results of a tweak.

2- I see no reason to believe that he is relying on the evidence of his own ears. As I said, his comments on individual items make no mention of hearing them, he specifically states of the Dual Beam Ultra Clarifier "I wasn't going to put this in, despite the forty odd emails I got about it. After all, it is only a hundred dollars (sale price! Get it while you can!).
Then I read the description. "...truly experience the reality of... ...Multimedia CD-ROMs and Photo CDs". I wonder if it'll work on my hard drive too - I'd really love to truly experience the reality of some text files I've got here." So he says he included it because others mentioned it, not because he's tried it and heard nothing, and he obviously hasn't tried one at home or he'd know whether it works on his hard drive. Other items have similar comments. Nowhere does he actually state that he has tried any of these items. In his comments at the bottom he does not mention owning any item discussed earlier. I don't think he has heard most of them, and he may not have heard any.

3- I've said nothing in this thread to indicate that I believe any unsubstantiated claims to be true, or that any of the items listed actually work. All I have said in this thread is that I don't believe he has heard any of the items mentioned.

Having made that last point, I will say that the only item I have tried on his list are the cable elevators, and I think they do work noticeably with some cables but not with others. I think they insulate cables from static electricity in carpets and some cables seem to be noticably affected by static electricity while others don't.

I have no idea if any of the other items work or not and I've never seen any of the other items here in Australia.

David Aiken

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