audio snakeoil!

[Dick]

In message <pan.2004.12.04.20.20.15.352091@example.net>, Rich Grise
<rich@example.net> writes

Speaking of radioactivity, how was it discovered? How did anybody ever
even know it was there to _look_ for, let alone _how_?

Seem to remember that 'way back when' someone stored a lump of natural

uranium ore on top of some unused photographic plates. When they were
subsequently used & developed the natural radiation from the ore had
made unexpected blots/marks on the photos. Someone (who ??) then started
to think what/why/how etc !!
--
Dick
GM0MNL Fra' Auld Reekie

 

[Chaos Master]

Richard Henry to stdout:

Once, this audiophile stuff was featured on one of the most
important magazines here from Brazil, on an article about audiophilia
(?... the "disease" of audiophiles), was claimed that those cables really
worked.

Nobody said they didn't work. If you hook them up between your amplifier
and your speakers, sound comes out.

I didn't explain correctly.

Where I wrote 'worked', read 'worked to improve the sound quality'
--
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"Sing what you can't say / forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes / Walk within my poetry, this dying
music"
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[Richard Henry]

"Chaos Master" <e-mail@is.INVALID> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c1d2a1e9d27040f989753@News.individual.net...

Richard Henry to stdout:

Once, this audiophile stuff was featured on one of the most
important magazines here from Brazil, on an article about audiophilia
(?... the "disease" of audiophiles), was claimed that those cables
really
worked.

Nobody said they didn't work. If you hook them up between your
amplifier
and your speakers, sound comes out.

I didn't explain correctly.

Where I wrote 'worked', read 'worked to improve the sound quality'

Kindly cite any measurable quality of sound that these devices claim to
improve.

 

[Chaos Master]

Richard Henry to stdout:

Where I wrote 'worked', read 'worked to improve the sound quality'

Kindly cite any measurable quality of sound that these devices claim to
improve.

I don't know. I have never tried one.

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W

"Sing what you can't say / forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes / Walk within my poetry, this dying
music"
- My loveletter to nobody


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[Keith Williams]

In article <olJsd.149$yh5.92@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>,
kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com says...

"Daniel Rudy"
5n6o7.8d9c0r1u2d3y4.5s6p7a8m9@0e1m2a3i4l5.6p7a8c9b0e1l2l3.4i5n6v7a8l9i0d1.2n3e4t5
wrote in message news:IMHsd.38940$6q2.31992@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...

A man bought an RV and took a trip in it. While driving, he set the
cruise control, got up from the driver's seat, and went in the back to
make a sandwich.

No, that's just a myth that has been debunked.
A few minutes Google of "urban myth"+"cruise control" will show that.

Snopes is a good place to debunk such stories. Browsing snopes is good
for a laugh too.

In this case: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp

It does demonstrate how easily false information propagates through
populations, just because it is more interesting than the truth.

....and how much more efficient the Internet is at distributing such
nonsense.

--
Keith

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that john jardine
<john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote (in <cp2b7j$10i$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk

) about 'audio snakeoil!', on Mon, 6 Dec 2004:

One high profile college in London is now allowed to teach
Creationism. Obviously can't be a scam as the government supports it. Or
can it?. The alternative medicine = 'conmen', group stereotyping label,
is in the same order as saying all British Muslims are rabid
fundamentalists.

Doesn't the first sentence imply very clearly that rabid Judaeo-
Christian fundamentalists have far too much influence?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:46:59 -0800, Richard Henry wrote:

"Chaos Master" <e-mail@is.INVALID> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c1d2a1e9d27040f989753@News.individual.net...
Richard Henry to stdout:

Once, this audiophile stuff was featured on one of the most
important magazines here from Brazil, on an article about audiophilia
(?... the "disease" of audiophiles), was claimed that those cables
really
worked.

Nobody said they didn't work. If you hook them up between your
amplifier
and your speakers, sound comes out.

I didn't explain correctly.

Where I wrote 'worked', read 'worked to improve the sound quality'

Kindly cite any measurable quality of sound that these devices claim to
improve.

Presumably, "How It Sounds." ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Kryten <kryten_droid_obfusticator@
ntlworld.com> wrote (in <0Xatd.2$TO3.1@newsfe5-win.ntli.net&gt about
'audio snakeoil!', on Tue, 7 Dec 2004:

The state has no authority to stop anyone from teaching a religious
doctrine.

Try advocating the worship of Moloch.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Kryten]

"Daniel Rudy"
<5n6o7.8d9c0r1u2d3y4.5s6p7a8m9@0e1m2a3i4l5.6p7a8c9b0e1l2l3.4i5n6v7a8l9i0d1.2n3e4t5>
wrote in message news:IMHsd.38940$6q2.31992@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...

A man bought an RV and took a trip in it. While driving, he set the
cruise control, got up from the driver's seat, and went in the back to
make a sandwich.

No, that's just a myth that has been debunked.
A few minutes Google of "urban myth"+"cruise control" will show that.

It does demonstrate how easily false information propagates through
populations, just because it is more interesting than the truth.

Radioactive underwear? Nah, just send a high powered microwave beam to
the gonads and roast them like chestnuts on an open fire.

Ah, you only have to _say_ it emits 'wellness' enhancing radiation, psychic
energy, or even magic moonbeams. Anybody dumb enough to buy one is unlikely
to be smart enough to check them out. If they do, give them a refund. You
can even avoid that by saying it uses something that can't be detected by
scientific instruments (e.g. the biostatic field in John Jardine's
defrauding machine).

Besides, people get suspicious if you point a big pointy thing at their
crotch.
Even really dumb people will suspect the connection with their steamed yet
unbrowned genitals.

If you get people to buy the gene-fading jockstrap, then you don't have to
do the stupidity testing yourself.