What Pins Your High-End Audio BS Detectors?

  • $2k or $5k boxes that claim to be the "best sounding in the world", and the cohorts of believers willing to buy into the hype. I mean innovative circuit ideas will only get you so far, then you have to pay for the r&d and bits that go inside the box. And let's get real, a few grand only buys you so much :dry:
  • The belief more "bits" = better sound, and the relegation of the importance of mastering and the art of designing a great dac to obscurity.
  • Cable manufacturers who condone blatant commercial shilling on forums. Two serial offenders immediately come to mind :mad:
  • Tweaks that claim to turn an Oppo cd player into a world-beating high end player
  • + 2 on mega-dollar cables with black boxes.
 
Posters who megaphone their equipment solution choices as being the Magical one and only. There are so many fantastic options out there. Thank goodness for the gear swappers that share their compulsive experiences with us.
 
I know a self-styled reviewer (10 Audio) that bought one of our assembled kit amplifiers that he found on the used market (it turned out to be very poorly assembled- like a rat's nest inside) and reviewed it as if it had been assembled here by us. When I called him on BS, he immediately changed a prior review of one of our preamps from a good review to a very bad review. He then sold the kit amp to a 3rd party after advertising it as if it was built by us. We heard from the guy that bought the amps; ultimately we had them shipped to us so we could clean them up and get them running right, which we did. It was because of this event that we discontinued the kit BTW...
 
Welcome Atmasphere. Great amps! Would love to have a pair of those Novacrons in my system! One day...


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In a cable X, which uses magnetic conduction, and cable Y, which is a normal copper/silver cable, comparison test, if one is switching from cable X to Y (listening to cable X first then switching in cable Y) cable Y will sound better than it actually is or at least will be benefited because of prior magnetic conduction by the cable X.
 
kzhtoo said:
In a cable X, which uses magnetic conduction, and cable Y, which is a normal copper/silver cable, comparison test, if one is switching from cable X to Y (listening to cable X first then switching in cable Y) cable Y will sound better than it actually is or at least will be benefited because of prior magnetic conduction by the cable X.
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Aahhh, yes the Sigma, Alpha, Delta, hot copper direct transient EMI current delivery phenomena.
 
atmasphere said:
I know a self-styled reviewer (10 Audio) that bought one of our assembled kit amplifiers that he found on the used market (it turned out to be very poorly assembled- like a rat's nest inside) and reviewed it as if it had been assembled here by us. When I called him on BS, he immediately changed a prior review of one of our preamps from a good review to a very bad review. He then sold the kit amp to a 3rd party after advertising it as if it was built by us. We heard from the guy that bought the amps; ultimately we had them shipped to us so we could clean them up and get them running right, which we did. It was because of this event that we discontinued the kit BTW...
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Hi Ralph!
 
atmasphere said:
I know a self-styled reviewer (10 Audio) that bought one of our assembled kit amplifiers that he found on the used market (it turned out to be very poorly assembled- like a rat's nest inside) and reviewed it as if it had been assembled here by us. When I called him on BS, he immediately changed a prior review of one of our preamps from a good review to a very bad review. He then sold the kit amp to a 3rd party after advertising it as if it was built by us. We heard from the guy that bought the amps; ultimately we had them shipped to us so we could clean them up and get them running right, which we did. It was because of this event that we discontinued the kit BTW...
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he's bought some (most?) of the gear he's reviewed, apparently for the same reasons you cite. audio research wouldn't give him a review sample which he later bought at retail, lo and behold the review stunk (retribution?) which only confirms a mfrs concerns that have something to loose. his positive reviews appear in ads of relatively little-known mfrs/dist. that have nothing to loose.
 
Thanks. Interestingly, the link wants me to sign in, or register.

It sounds like a plausible idea. I need to read up more on it.
 
atmasphere said:
I know a self-styled reviewer (10 Audio) that bought one of our assembled kit amplifiers that he found on the used market (it turned out to be very poorly assembled- like a rat's nest inside) and reviewed it as if it had been assembled here by us. When I called him on BS, he immediately changed a prior review of one of our preamps from a good review to a very bad review. He then sold the kit amp to a 3rd party after advertising it as if it was built by us. We heard from the guy that bought the amps; ultimately we had them shipped to us so we could clean them up and get them running right, which we did. It was because of this event that we discontinued the kit BTW...
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Glad you're here Ralph !
Good to have more people here from the great State of Minnesota.
I grew up there, and still visit every summer.
Minnesota is a hotbed of great audio manufacturers.
 
MDP said:
Glad you're here Ralph !
Good to have more people here from the great State of Minnesota.
I grew up there, and still visit every summer.
Minnesota is a hotbed of great audio manufacturers.
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Unfortunately, it's now getting to be known for something else. No good deed goes unpunished.
 
Mike said:
Crazy expensive cables with little boxes.
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Haha, I love this statement! But I also have to admit that I am fascinated by nice cables with good looking wooden boxes. :)

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Have you even heard the HF cables with magnetic conduction?
I love mine!
 
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