Used book WTF
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@PJH said:
Perhaps you should try Denon cables instead. I realise they may be a tad more expensive however...
More expensive than these?
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@boomzilla said:
Ah, then you probably haven't optimized the layout of your listening room.
That right, I haven't done that. I figured the age-old wisdom was 100% transferrable from IT to audio.
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@ender said:
@PJH said:
There really ought to be a Poe's law for other things than religion (though I suspect this one isn't a piss-take.) From that page I found:High End Cable Burn in ServicePerhaps you should try Denon cables instead. I realise they may be a tad more expensive however...
More expensive than these?
We all know that it can take time before your new cable begins to perform at its best. [Nordost] have developed the VIDAR burn in machine which helps new and old cables on their way to optimum performance.[...]We can also burn in Din to RCA tonearm cables which normally take a lot longer to get to their very best. We also can revitalise your favourite cable with a one day burn.
£40 for 4 days 96 hours
£50 for 5 days 120 hours
£60 for a week 168 hours
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@boomzilla said:
Ah, then you probably haven't optimized the layout of your listening room. Make sure you supercool your windows, too.
Fuck, good point. I haven't done my monthly glass-flow inspection yet. If the windows are even 0.01% bottom-heavy, it'll pervert the balanced bounceback and throw off the whole system. I don't want to replace the windows again this year, but I can't let the warm sounds suffer. =(
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@ender said:
More expensive than these?
... and I thought my post was hyperbole.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">The Odin Supreme Reference Loudspeaker Cable uses twenty-four 20 AWG conductors made from 99.99999% oxygen free copper (OFC) with an extrusion of 85 microns of silver on the surface, deployed in a flat array arrangement. Each conductor is wound with a helical “Dual Mono-Filament” of Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) with an extruded FEP jacket. Careful matched conductors with a very high degree of concentricity and the precision in the manufacturing process results in a cable of superb sonic performance. The cable is arranged as four groups of six individual wires so that it can easily be configured for bi-wiring or bi-amping.</font>
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@dhromed said:
@boomzilla said:
@dhromed said:
Anything greater than 16-bit/44.1KHz confers dubious or completely inadible increases in quality. There's a reason blue-ray hasn't overtaken the market yet. Same story for SACD.
Bullshit. That just means you aren't buying the right cables.
Excuse me, but my cables are double-twisted, silver-sheathed, microquantized hypersolidified beasts of a quarter-inch thick at a mere $599.99 per meter (discount price for trusted customers!), and they're installed with the electro-flow arrows pointing in the right direction. Obviously they're not the bottleneck.
You realize that when they were first inventing electricity, they had electrons pointing in the wrong direction, right? That means you need the electro-flow arrows pointing the other way. I know, it doesn't make any sense, but it's tradition.
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Faraday is spinning in his grave now.
Front to back.
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You don't need super-expensive cables for good audio, all you need to do is bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish and it'll modulate the surrounding warp field and improve the harmonic subspace stability of your speaker coil crystallization pattern. If you fine-tune your dilithium crystal resonant frequency mesh synchronizer enough then even a $2 set of ear buds will be as loud as a rock concert and sound way better than vinyl!
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yes ha ha stupid "audiophiles" buy overpriced scam equipment we get it ha ha all the humor potential of that premise was exhausted about 5 years ago now it just makes me sad
if I were less ethical I'd start up a company selling $5 power strips as $500 audiophile surge protectors but I'm not so I remain poor.
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@blakeyrat said:
yes ha ha stupid "audiophiles" buy overpriced scam equipment we get it ha ha all the humor potential of that premise was exhausted about 5 years ago now it just makes me sad
Nay!
For as long as there are audiophile consumers who believe this crap, I will be there, cracking jokes!
For as long as there are scamming homeopaths who sell this 1,000× diluted electrical engineering claptrap, I will be there, cracking jokes!
I am, and shall remain, a champion of fact and funny! A frontrunner of the rational and the witty!
My tenacity shall know no bounds! I shall persevere!
HOPE!
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Wherever you can look-
Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad.
I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build-
I'll be there, too.
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@blakeyrat said:
if I were less ethical I'd start up a company selling $5 power strips as $500 audiophile surge protectors but I'm not so I remain poor.
The people who pay for these things have more money than sense. It is every person's duty to try and swindle the rich out of their wealth. It's survival of the fittest--if you let them keep their money they will just go on to spread their inferior genes. It would be unethical for you to not take advantage of them.
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@morbiuswilters said:
It's survival of the fittest--if you let them keep their money they will just go on to spread their inferior genes. It would be unethical for you to not take advantage of them.
Are you certain of this? Fertility seems negatively correlated with wealth. You might just be making the problem worse.
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@KattMan said:
I read an interesting article about e-books a few months ago. Apparently, some people have found that the "magic number" is $4.99, and if you price your book below that number it will sell significantly more copies. The article also talks about an author who has had a couple of books published (conventional dead tree type) but he turned down a large offer from a publisher for his latest book and will publish the book himself in electronic format only. The idea is that he gets to keep 70% of the price of the book (Amazon gets 30%) compared to only 15% for a traditional publishing deal, and so in theory, he can price the book lower which will result in more sales and in the long run he'll make more money.At $3 you sell 5 items.
At $4 you sell 4 items.
At $5 you sell 3 items.
The maximized profit is at $4 not 3 or 5.
Comedian Louis C.K. did something similar recently -- he put together a DVD that he completely financed himself and then sold it on his website for $5. Two weeks later he had made enough money to cover the entire cost of filming and producing the DVD, plus about $500,000 in profit. I'm surprised more people aren't doing this. Especially since a number of executives in the entertainment are desperately trying to downplay it and spin it as no great accomplishment, which tells me that it's a pretty good idea.
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@El_Heffe said:
I read an interesting article about e-books a few months ago. Apparently, some people have found that the "magic number" is $4.99, and if you price your book below that number it will sell significantly more copies. The article also talks about an author who has had a couple of books published (conventional dead tree type) but he turned down a large offer from a publisher for his latest book and will publish the book himself in electronic format only. The idea is that he gets to keep 70% of the price of the book (Amazon gets 30%) compared to only 15% for a traditional publishing deal, and so in theory, he can price the book lower which will result in more sales and in the long run he'll make more money.
Comedian Louis C.K. did something similar recently -- he put together a DVD that he completely financed himself and then sold it on his website for $5. Two weeks later he had made enough money to cover the entire cost of filming and producing the DVD, plus about $500,000 in profit. I'm surprised more people aren't doing this. Especially since a number of executives in the entertainment are desperately trying to downplay it and spin it as no great accomplishment, which tells me that it's a pretty good idea.
As nice as it is to cut out the middleman, most of those people probably wouldn't be well-known enough to sell their products without first being promoted by media companies' marketing machines. How many major sellers have there been whose entire career was self-financed?
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@morbiuswilters said:
As nice as it is to cut out the middleman, most of those people probably wouldn't be well-known enough to sell their products without first being promoted by media companies' marketing machines. How many major sellers have there been whose entire career was self-financed?
A model like UnitedArtists started out with might work for authors. In a pretty short time actors went from being owned by (on a long term contract with, not by choice with) a studio to owning their own studio. Making a movie is a costly and complex venture with a lot of physical and labor costs. Making a book, especially an ebook, requires little more than an author, an editor, maybe a producer and a central online store for distribution. If authors got together to say 'this is the place you can find our works and it's a lot cheaper than Amazon or corporate sellers' then a lot of customers would bite. The popularity of Netflix has proven that online distribution of content can replace physical delivery, provided the site is well organized, includes reviews and recommendations, etc.
