Haha I’m half joking; I like most of the artists on that list. It just gives off late-90s-early-00s vibe, right in the range to have a bunch of dads in the crowd.
It depends, because “audiophile” as a definition goes back and forth between being somebody who is insane and imagines that physics and psychoacoustics aren’t real, and somebody who is just into really in to good audio (wants to have sex with it). I’m the latter but as for the former oh hellz ya.
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Aw sheeit there’s a whole realm of audiophilic deviancy way beyond that, that I am about to expose you to:
https://positive-feedback.com/Issue32/anjou.htm
Okay so the Anjous are rather pricey at $2750 for a meter pair
Without clicking the link, guess what’s being referred to.
The Primavera lineup reminded me of the new Pavement reunion. Really want to see them.
The plural conjugation makes me assume headphones? In which case, wow.
Who exactly requested a Men at Work reunion?
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I actually thought ‘maybe cables’ because from my youth hanging out with rockers I recall like, gold-plated cable-heads and such, but then I though, nah. Holy shit.
That and that Save Ferris is still a thing were my big takeaways from that poster.
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I worked on a patent case involving audio cables. From what I could tell the fancy cables, and much of autophilia, is pure BS.
There can be asymptotic improvement of a technology well beyond the threshold of human appreciation (and often there is not any measurable improvement beyond buzzwords). [I feel this way about super fast monitor refresh and other thigns as well.]
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Gold plated cable heads only cost a couple bucks more, because they don’t have this:
The Anjou (yes that is a type of pear!) Speaker Cable utilizes a new proprietary geometry that is best described as a hybrid combination of coaxial and braided litz configurations. The result is a geometry that offers the best characteristics of each design individually, but minimizes or eliminates the negatives while effectively inhibiting high frequency noise pickup without the use of a deleterious shield.
The part that made this example famous:
Yeah, but how do they sound?
In extended listening sessions, I found the cables’ greatest strength to be its PRAT. Simply put these are very danceable cables. Music playing through them results in the proverbial foot tapping scene with the need or desire to get up and move. Great swing and pace—these cables smack that right on the nose big time. In this area, they are simply way better than anything else I have heard prior to their audition.
Yeah, it’s solved, people can’t tell the difference between expensive cables and a coat hanger.
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The good stuff doesn’t always cost a fortune. Anybody else remember people drawing on the outside edge of their CD’s with a green sharpie to improve the sound quality?
My favourite example of this is HDMI cables. So many times I’ve had sales guys try to upsell me on fancy HDMI cables, I’m like bro it’s a digital information transfer, it gets there or it doesn’t will you just stop.
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bro my bits are gold plated
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I wasn’t joking btw:
Across all comparisons and samples, the vote broke down like this:
** 1,456 preferred the coathanger (45.5% with first comparison, 36.2% without)*
** 1,049 preferred the cable (32.8% with first comparison, 37.7% without)*
** 694 chose “both are the same” (21.7% with first comparison, 26.1% without)*
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Ok I can’t figure out the scam here.
I am selling a couple old cell phones on Kijiji and Facebook marketplace. Why do all these people in NY and other places enquire? It’s obviously a scam but I cant figure out the angle?
Most of the time they ask if available. If you say yes they just ghost.
You sweet summer child.
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I would guess it’s pre-scam clearance. If you respond, they know you’re not also a scam and are thus a viable target. But I wouldn’t really know, just guessing.
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I’m now aware yes, lol.