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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2015, 05:40:17 AM »
I never heard of most of this crap before. Audiophilia be a world of cray-cray. :-00
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2015, 06:42:44 AM »
Here you go, courtesy of a current thread on Hydrogenaud.io...

Listening to storage

 :gross: :vomit: walk the plank2


But, whereas the kind of stuff I mentioned before, eg wealthy-turntable-enthusiast equipment, has the undeniable property of beauty, and heaps of ownership-pride, stuff like listening to storage is just pure crap. Listening to storage through anus-extruded cables, anyone?

More crap: vibration protection for anything except turntables and some tube amplifiers. Especially those idiot things to lift speaker cables off the floor. And, especially, as, being solid, they are not going to prevent vibration anyway!

What about those people who do something to your system (psychic?) just by you telephoning them. Anybody remember that one?

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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2015, 06:45:34 AM »
How could we forget http://www.coconut-audio.com/
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2015, 06:50:56 AM »
Quote from: Armaegis on February 11, 2015, 06:45:34 AM
How could we forget http://www.coconut-audio.com/

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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2015, 07:10:26 AM »
Quote from: Armaegis on February 11, 2015, 06:45:34 AM
How could we forget http://www.coconut-audio.com/

This site is pretty damn funny though.
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2015, 07:49:13 AM »
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2015, 08:35:16 AM »
Silver cables.

I'm sure this one is anthropomorphic: nice bright metal, right? Brings out the highs nicely, right?

But this guy...   Make Your Own Silver Audio Cables seems to lack some rather basic knowledge (I was a keen hobby jeweller for several years) about his material.


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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2015, 02:16:02 PM »
Quote from: knerian on February 11, 2015, 07:10:26 AM
This site is pretty damn funny though.

Their brand name is "Unreal." If your brand name is this unreal in idiocy the puns just keep coming.

"Too unreal to be real!"
"So unreal, reality changes!"
"Too good to be true, just unreal."
"Realism never sounded so unreal."

Of course, coconuts are better suited to King Arthur and his knights. They are real  p;)
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2015, 03:07:09 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on February 11, 2015, 02:16:02 PM
Their brand name is "Unreal." If your brand name is this unreal in idiocy the puns just keep coming.

"Too unreal to be real!"
"So unreal, reality changes!"
"Too good to be true, just unreal."
"Realism never sounded so unreal."

Of course, coconuts are better suited to King Arthur and his knights. They are real  p;)


Oh it gets even better!

http://www.coconut-audio.com/games.html
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Re: What's your favorite snake oil
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2015, 06:54:01 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on February 11, 2015, 02:16:02 PM
Their brand name is "Unreal." ...

At first sight, I thought this site might be a spoof. It is for real, right?
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