aberdeencomponents Wrote: > Tyler, humm... my Dobermans name... "working overtime"? > Only thing I see is facts, and parts used.
High end audio formula: get a bunch of intelligent, educated, hard working engineers to come up with a really good product that works well and performs some useful function, then watch the aftermarket morons change something easy like a power supply or line cord or add an "exotic" material here or there and and suddenly the product is 100x better... Yah, sure, you betcha! What you see as specs and facts are to the more astute eye not much more than a bunch of marketing BS. Voltage regulation is kept at 5 volts within -/+ .001% Under what conditions? This is NOT a spec. RIPPLE is no more than .003 MILLI-VOLTS. I suspect someone got a decimal place wrong here. 3 mV is more likely. 13,200 uF, of SANYO WX/AX capacitance. Big deal. Ultra Fast HEXFREDS diode bridge. Big deal. Input Snubber. Diode bridge Snubbers. Big deal. Big Deal. Vishay METAL film Resistors. Vishay DOUBLE Metalized film caps. OSCON bypasses. Linear Technologies ULTRA LDO regulators. Whoopdy-doo! Please drop a few more names... LT does make some good regulator ICs, but I have to wonder if a discrete regulator wouldn't sound better. We all know opamps are crap, and linear regulator ICs are full of the darned things... Big Ass Technology HEAT SINK. It's gotta be high-tech with a name like "big-ass"! Furutech gold or Rhodium IEC. The metal plating on the power cord socket- that's gonna make a BIG difference... Switchcraft plugs and connectors. Oh boy! Ultra BLUE power LED. You know its high-end if the LED is blue! It shows they didn't skimp on the cost (blue LEDs cost $0.15 instead of $0.05 like red ones). Small 4"wx5d"2"h BULLET PROOF extruded aluminum enclosure. Black Anodized. I heard that red anodizing sounds better. What caliber bullet? I need one that is IED proof where I live. 10 conductor FLAT RIBBON DIRECTIONAL Umbilical cord using TEFLON and .999999% COPPER/SILVER conductors. Wow! Directional! They must have done a LOT of engineering on THAT! Foil Lined Dampening Material. Exclusive Aberdeen "500" material. Well, there you go! You can't argue with foil lined and "Aberdeen" damping materials, can you? 110 or 220 vac Finally some useful info! Here's what these guys did: they went into DIYAudio.com and other DIY audio nut forums, scanned the ads in Stereophile, and picked up every fad, rumor, buzzword, and low-end marketing gimmick they could find and threw it into this thing and its marketing swag. I'll bet they set a stoopid price like $500 for the thing too... And Stereophile editorials keep speculating on the reason for the ever decreasing size of the high-end industry? It is easy to see why when you aren't part of that industry. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20844 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
