There is no limit to crazy...

[hemiram]

So I was looking around online, bored at work, slow night, and I stumbled onto this company:

http://www.albat.shop/

Enjoy..

My favorite..

http://www.albat.shop/Webwinkel-Product-216562868/Holographic-Sound-Disks.html

I have thousands of dollars worth of raw holographic sound disks in my room! All I need is a saw and some "magic". Amazing. And I thought it was just a hunk of dowel rod! I had no idea of it's true nature..

 

[KEW]

Don't miss the Test Report:

http://www.highresmac.de/10-weihnachts-tipps-fuer-schoenen-klang/3/

I use Chrome and a right click in the window gives me the option to "translate to English".
Don't know if other browsers have the same.

 

[highfigh]

From the home page, "Due to the great international success of these German top products, the sound products have been permanently reduced in price."

Not the typical way to induce sales.

I made the mistake of scrolling to the bottom of the page and now, I want these. I have to have these. My life won't be worth anything if I don't have these!

http://www.albat.shop/Shoe-Tuning-Cards

I'm going to write a book and call it 'How To Live a Properly-tuned Life'.

 

[highfigh]

Don't miss the Test Report:

http://www.highresmac.de/10-weihnachts-tipps-fuer-schoenen-klang/3/

I use Chrome and a right click in the window gives me the option to "translate to English".
Don't know if other browsers have the same.

In the Product Data- "Special feature: Informed wood"

Is that right?

 

[KEW]

In the Product Data- "Special feature: Informed wood"

Is that right?

More or less.
There is also something called "informed water" that I came across when looking it up/translating.

As best I can figure it is a term used when wanting to imply the wood is enhanced in some nebulous way!

 

[shadyJ]

Reminds me of the stuff Bybee is peddling. At this year's axpona I was in a room where the Bybee rep tried to make a case for the effectiveness of their audiophile woodchips, these things. I didn't bother arguing with him, I just nodded my head.

 

[KEW]

From the home page, "Due to the great international success of these German top products, the sound products have been permanently reduced in price."

Not the typical way to induce sales.

I made the mistake of scrolling to the bottom of the page and now, I want these. I have to have these. My life won't be worth anything if I don't have these!

http://www.albat.shop/Shoe-Tuning-Cards

I'm going to write a book and call it 'How To Live a Properly-tuned Life'.

"Super High Tech of the highest possible level."

Who doesn't want the highest high tech?

Maybe it is a translation issue! Maybe "super high" means "super f*ched up" and "highest" equates to "totally wasted"!

 

[hemiram]

Don't miss the Test Report:

http://www.highresmac.de/10-weihnachts-tipps-fuer-schoenen-klang/3/

I use Chrome and a right click in the window gives me the option to "translate to English".
Don't know if other browsers have the same.

I read it and got a good laugh at it. I don't understand how anyone could buy into such insanity, but it happens with all kinds of hifi stuff constantly. Reading people's claims about stuff both amuses me and makes me think we are doomed as a species.

 

[hemiram]

Reminds me of the stuff Bybee is peddling. At this year's axpona I was in a room where the Bybee rep tried to make a case for the effectiveness of their audiophile woodchips, these things. I didn't bother arguing with him, I just nodded my head.

Thanks for posting the link. Wow. I don't think I could have listened to the pitch without backing away slowly...and laughing.

 

[hemiram]

The fuse stuff amuses the hell out of me too. I have to wonder at this point if there is any limit to how insane claims can be before people just laugh these companies out of business?

 

[Bucknekked]

I enjoy this version of the goofy product thread much more than the other version.
The other version of the same idea except where an OP comes in and tells us how he can improve the sound of his sound system by deploying hot rocks or cable stands or whatever the magic component is.
And we are all closed minded knuckleheads if we can't hear it too.
That version of the thread I don't enjoy so much.

 

[highfigh]

The fuse stuff amuses the hell out of me too. I have to wonder at this point if there is any limit to how insane claims can be before people just laugh these companies out of business?

In the mid-'80s, I was hanging out with a couple of friends, who were also in the audio business and we were talking about the way people had bought into the 'big wires' scheme, green magic markers, putting banana plugs on cables that would never be disconnected until the end of time and how everything just had to be gold-plated. I said "We should plate some fuses and sell them for five bucks apiece". We laughed and laughed. Not six months later, someone came out with, you guessed it, gold-plated fuses.

 

[highfigh]

Look at the stuff Mapleshade is selling- kinda pricey.

 

[Bucknekked]

In the mid-'80s, I was hanging out with a couple of friends, who were also in the audio business and we were talking about the way people had bought into the 'big wires' scheme, green magic markers, putting banana plugs on cables that would never be disconnected until the end of time and how everything just had to be gold-plated. I said "We should plate some fuses and sell them for five bucks apiece". We laughed and laughed. Not six months later, someone came out with, you guessed it, gold-plated fuses.

gold plated was just the first step. now they sell "directional fuses" . the never ending march of progress

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

gold plated was just the first step. now they sell "directional fuses" . the never ending march of progress

Buck, I’m thinking of one direction for these guys. And their gold plated suppositories. The March of insanity is more like it!

 

[Verdinut]

I read it and got a good laugh at it. I don't understand how anyone could buy into such insanity, but it happens with all kinds of hifi stuff constantly. Reading people's claims about stuff both amuses me and makes me think we are doomed as a species.

The audiophools are more doomed than we are: They also waste their money!

 

[Verdinut]

gold plated was just the first step. now they sell "directional fuses" . the never ending march of progress

Of course, they can sell twice as many fuses that way: One for the hot wire and one for the neutral return wire!

 

[hemiram]

In the mid-'80s, I was hanging out with a couple of friends, who were also in the audio business and we were talking about the way people had bought into the 'big wires' scheme, green magic markers, putting banana plugs on cables that would never be disconnected until the end of time and how everything just had to be gold-plated. I said "We should plate some fuses and sell them for five bucks apiece". We laughed and laughed. Not six months later, someone came out with, you guessed it, gold-plated fuses.

Kind of like bottled water. Who would have thought it would really sell?

 

[hemiram]

The audiophools are more doomed than we are: They also waste their money!

I would bet that we all have bought things that we don't really need. Impractical stuff, but hunks of wood that improve sound? Special fuses, power cords, etc, that cost hundreds of dollars, or more and have no sane theory about how they work, or even how they possibly could work at all, let alone any better than a "normal" fuse or power cord, interconnect, etc. It amazes me that people think putting wood chips on their amp could do anything but possibly smell a little if it got warm enough.

I admit it, I'm a kookwatcher, and this stuff is firmly into the kook range of things, along with shapeshifting lizard men, chemtrails, etc. I love reading and watching videos about them all.

This has been one of my favorites:

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

I would bet that we all have bought things that we don't really need. Impractical stuff, but hunks of wood that improve sound? Special fuses, power cords, etc, that cost hundreds of dollars, or more and have no sane theory about how they work, or even how they possibly could work at all, let alone any better than a "normal" fuse or power cord, interconnect, etc. It amazes me that people think putting wood chips on their amp could do anything but possibly smell a little if it got warm enough.

I admit it, I'm a kookwatcher, and this stuff is firmly into the kook range of things, along with shapeshifting lizard men, chemtrails, etc. I love reading and watching videos about them all.

This has been one of my favorites:

Wow!!! What a moron.
An people give me the stink eye when I say we should limit who can have children...