What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Corv said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Then I remembered I have horses, and nobody with horses is fiscally responsible, so I said screw it, let’s pull an @SGH and get a new truck!!

I think that also applies to people who have boats, small planes, and sometimes guns, too.

Man, I think it might apply to everyone who owns a Big Green Egg.  We are all economy stimulators around here.

Meh, Egging is a dirt cheap hobby comparatively speaking. 

You know... you're right.  I need to up my game

zaphod

try high-end audio. where you spend 100s on cable lifters so that your 5 figure power cable doesn't touch the rug and pickup bad electrons that will pass into the power supply. 

Unless of course you have converted all your equipment to battery supply DC power so that the grid does not effect your sound system adversely when a neighbour turns on a microwave. 

alaskanassasin

zaphod said:

try high-end audio. where you spend 100s on cable lifters so that your 5 figure power cable doesn't touch the rug and pickup bad electrons that will pass into the power supply. 

Unless of course you have converted all your equipment to battery supply DC power so that the grid does not effect your sound system adversely when a neighbour turns on a microwave. 

WHAT?

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

zaphod said:

try high-end audio. where you spend 100s on cable lifters so that your 5 figure power cable doesn't touch the rug and pickup bad electrons that will pass into the power supply. 

Unless of course you have converted all your equipment to battery supply DC power so that the grid does not effect your sound system adversely when a neighbour turns on a microwave. 

WHAT?

He is honestly underselling here.  5 figure power cables for the 2ft run from your plug to your amplifier is not even a joke or exaggeration.  Don’t even ask them about the 150ft of romex and multiple junctions before it got to your outlet.

Nitrogen infused atom and electron oriented solid core cable with multi strand nano-particle ground sheathed and isolated speaker cables for $12k/ft is real too.

Audiophiles are the easiest mark for snake oil salesman that ever existed.

A friend invited me over to A/B test a few sets of speaker cables.  He had spent over $120k on a 2 channel setup and was A/B ing two sets of cables that were $15k each.  Supposedly that was discounted from their $25k msrp.

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

zaphod said:

try high-end audio. where you spend 100s on cable lifters so that your 5 figure power cable doesn't touch the rug and pickup bad electrons that will pass into the power supply. 

Unless of course you have converted all your equipment to battery supply DC power so that the grid does not effect your sound system adversely when a neighbour turns on a microwave. 

WHAT?

He is honestly underselling here.  5 figure power cables for the 2ft run from your plug to your amplifier is not even a joke or exaggeration.  Don’t even ask them about the 150ft of romex and multiple junctions before it got to your outlet.

Nitrogen infused atom and electron oriented solid core cable with multi strand nano-particle ground sheathed and isolated speaker cables for $12k/ft is real too.

Audiophiles are the easiest mark for snake oil salesman that ever existed.

A friend invited me over to A/B test a few sets of speaker cables.  He had spent over $120k on a 2 channel setup and was A/B ing two sets of cables that were $15k each.  Supposedly that was discounted from their $25k msrp.

Just how much of these sorts of things are purchased out of the back of vans in parking lots?

dbCooper

Fun fact, if two audio cables have the same R/L/C characteristics they will be indistinguishable in a A/B/X test. 

DoubleEgger

Even Pablo Escobar would have said “You’re fvcking kidding me!”  

Ozzie_Isaac

dbCooper said:

Fun fact, if two audio cables have the same R/L/C characteristics they will be indistinguishable in a A/B/X test. 

You have never hung out with an audiophile.  I don’t fully understand it, but two of the smartest most logical people I have ever known threw all of that out the window when it came to their stereos.  Interestingly enough they were both experts in fatigue and vibration analysis. 

alaskanassasin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

zaphod said:

try high-end audio. where you spend 100s on cable lifters so that your 5 figure power cable doesn't touch the rug and pickup bad electrons that will pass into the power supply. 

Unless of course you have converted all your equipment to battery supply DC power so that the grid does not effect your sound system adversely when a neighbour turns on a microwave. 

WHAT?

He is honestly underselling here.  5 figure power cables for the 2ft run from your plug to your amplifier is not even a joke or exaggeration.  Don’t even ask them about the 150ft of romex and multiple junctions before it got to your outlet.

Nitrogen infused atom and electron oriented solid core cable with multi strand nano-particle ground sheathed and isolated speaker cables for $12k/ft is real too.

Audiophiles are the easiest mark for snake oil salesman that ever existed.

A friend invited me over to A/B test a few sets of speaker cables.  He had spent over $120k on a 2 channel setup and was A/B ing two sets of cables that were $15k each.  Supposedly that was discounted from their $25k msrp.

I was hoping to allude to hearing loss, clearly missed the mark. I’ll try and do better, I did think about editing in a !!?, and that may have landed it. Lazy my fault.

dbCooper

That is truth about my never hanging out with audiophiles.  However, the science behind transmission lines (to include the audible spectrum) is fairly well settled.  I've hung out with that science, pretty sure you have to.  Did you ever present it to your audiophile friends?