Audiophile Snake Oil!

a great listing of rip offs aimed at audio phreaks. My favorite? The "Intelligent Chip"

[Edited on Nov 08, 2005 by PointBlank]

The sad thing is how many of these are real products who likely who have fans who would defend them till death.

If I spent 30,000 dollars on speaker wire, I'd probably act like it was amazing no matter what anyone said.

The funny thing is that audio engineers - the guys who produce the albums these systems playback - generally scoff at most of this shit as being nonsense. So, a consumer needs to spend 100K on his monitoring system, but a producer doesn't? Something's whacky here.

You're not going to get that bass without the TK-147 modification. And we can install that right here in the store, for a small extra charge.

Doesn't it curl up in your belly, make you wanna freaky-deaky? Go on, move with it. It helps me.



[Edited on Nov 08, 2005 by jake_lex]

Maybe this is why so many records sound so shitty- those engineers need to get off their lazy asses and pony up the $30k. I heard some of them don't even use hi-fi speakers in their control rooms!

That is comedy gold, I wonder if artists can put that on a cd burner and make a great recording.........Hell i could dump the 75k in equipment I own and franchise this........

Thanks...........

I love one-way speaker cables and interconnects the most. That shit cracks me up.

EDIT from http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/mit_oracle_v21.htm

AAHAHAHAH.... that about sums it up right there, doesn't it?

[Edited on Nov 09, 2005 by venomkid]

The Silver Rock Transformer Potentiometer.

Absolutely. It's a 7 day trail, so leave lots of time for ambling.

Music should not be listened to in a stationary position after all. That's not what a true audiophile would do.

Hehe, a great thing to notice about most of this gear is its prominent LABEL.

"What?!? This is a SQUIBLIST PERFORMANCE CRAPTASTI-CABLE!#($ CAN'T YOU HEAR THE DIFFERENCE?!"

By "difference" of course, they mean "amount of money I paid"

Haha, that's awesome. $240 for a bit of wood. Wow. I gotta' gets me a job sellin' dem audio thingoes.

How retarded does one have to be to pay $125K for a set of speakers?

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[Edited on Nov 09, 2005 by imustbestopped]

the intelligent chip-- it's made of quantum materials. which means, I think, it's made of pure atoms.

cable elevators-- they coated porcelain with a non-conductive glaze.

$485 knobs-- holy fuck.

I am willing to bet that Steve Albini has a 70's Marantz set up in his home....

I spent 10k on mine but they make records that make me money........

I spent 10k on mine but they make records that make me money........

I spent 10k on mine but they make records that make me money........

Hahahaha. This is the stupidest shit I've ever heard.