These people are amazing. They refuse to do any kind of double-blind A/B testing.
My favorite thing is that they are trying to extract the maximum "fidelity" from an album or CD that was recorded in a studio with little or no AC power conditioning, whose recording consoles were wired with the cheapest solid and stranded copper wire and whose monitor speakers were probably a pair of cheap Yamaha NS-10's (if you can make something sound good on an NS-10, it will sound good on anything). They claim to like the "warm" sound of their tube equipment but all they are doing is getting second-order distortion from running their tubes into a non-linear region. Tubes distort based on octaves and the distortion product is pleasant. Transistors distort on odd-order harmonics -- 3rds, 5ths, etc... And this sounds very clangerous. FETs are even order and so are often used for audiophile power amplification. The phrase "Placebo Effect" was coined for a reason. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Forster > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 7:49 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Oh dear > > For the 'Golden Ear' crowd.... > > An Audiophool and his money are easily parted by a good sales pitch. > > The same suckers buy $250,000 turntables and solid silver > speaker wires. > > YMMV, > > -John > > ================ > > > > > > > > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Antelope-Audio-Isochrone-10M-Rubidi > um-Atomic-Clock-/270809581736?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3 > f0d8248a8 > > > > Make sure you read the description to discover what it's > being sold for. > > > > My chuckle for the day. > > > > Jim Palfreyman > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
