Audiophilia is still over the edge.

[fmw]

I can just imagine the guy that sells these things staring at the ceiling, shaking his head and laughing out loud that he can actually sell them for $159.

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

 

[MDS]

Shiny rocks can be nice decorations to put on your fireplace mantel.

I believe this is the same company that is offering a 'teleportation tweak'. They call your home phone and you hold the phone up to your speakers and voila they instantly sound better.

 

[fmw]

There is no better way to convince something they hear a sound improvement than getting $159 from them. Years ago, in my audiophile days, there were a couple of Koreans who came up with some little wooden disks with arrows on them. You placed the wooden disks on your equipment and then rotated them until the sound was best. Then you could make a note of where the arrows pointed so that you could replace the disks properly after dusting or other activities. I remember the disks got a rave review from one of the lunatics at Stereophile. I thought they were a little more creative than the these little stones.

I like Teleportation tweak. The manufacturer doesn't even have make anything. No product. Now that's what I call gross margin.

 

[skizzerflake]

Anybody remember the Tice Power Conditioner. It looked identical to a Radio Shack digital alarm clock and even came in the original box and would beep if you set the time. Tice claimed that it was subjected to a special treatment that made it "organize" the electrons in the room. You plugged it into an outlet anywhere in the room. It made your system sound better. It was $500 and came with a no-questions-asked money back warranty. Very few came back. I assumed that cognitive dissonance made people who paid $500 for an alarm clock (in 80's dollars) had convinced themselves so fervently that they would never admit to being schnookered.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Shiny rocks can be nice decorations to put on your fireplace mantel.

I believe this is the same company that is offering a 'teleportation tweak'. They call your home phone and you hold the phone up to your speakers and voila they instantly sound better.

This is the company that promotes the Quantum Dot gizmo that turns CDs into magical music.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I can just imagine the guy that sells these things staring at the ceiling, shaking his head and laughing out loud that he can actually sell them for $159.

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

We are in the wrong business.
I think PT Barnum made a good living

 

[OttoMatic]

Aw, it's no different than alternative medicines, fat creams, memory enhancers, get rich quick schemes and other crazy junk. Whatever people will buy (afte checking common sense at the door!).

 

[no. 5]

Lose weight without exercise!? By eating cheeseburgers and lard!? And it improves the sound of my stereo!? Free trial of the Teleportation tweak!? Were do I sign!?

 

[stratman]

I still can't believe this is a real company. They look like the winner of the Turkey Of The Year so far, especially their Teleportation gizmo. Where's Spock when you need him?

 

[mtrycrafts]

Aw, it's no different than alternative medicines, fat creams, memory enhancers, get rich quick schemes and other crazy junk. Whatever people will buy (afte checking common sense at the door!).

That's what I said, we are in the wrong business. We should corner all the consumer marketplaces

 

[krabapple]

There was a theory floated at one time that Machinedynamica was some sort of performance-art hoax.

If only it were so.

 

[highfihoney]

Lose weight without exercise!? By eating cheeseburgers and lard!?

Thats my new motto,fat builds muscle

 

[Ampdog]

Yes-well, just remember.....

Exercise to get the tummy down? Bollocks. Excercise makes muscles bigger, so your tummy will get bigger from exercise. No exercise, relax all day. Don't eat; that makes the tummy work and develops it. After a while it will shrink away from lack of use. (Like some folks' brains.)

 

[hemiram]

I want to start selling "magic bricks", like they used to sell, about 25 years or so ago, again. What's a brick cost? Like 50 cents? I think the local place that had them sold them for either 39.95 or 49.95. Figure 100% markup, it's still not bad.

Anyone got one? I saw one at a ham radio show a few years ago, and haven't seen one since.

 

[100r1]

I don't know if PT Barnum or Forest Gump is the better quote. But I always said if you could put a fart in a jar and label it right, fools of the world would buy it.

 

[hemiram]

Judging from what some stuff gets on Ebay, I would say that's correct. I watch some auctions just to laugh at the insane prices some items get. I never understand it when someone pays more for a used whatever, than the same item costs new! It happens all the time for certain gun parts. The suckers will pay more, sometimes a lot more, for a gun barrel, than a new one from the manuafacturer is. I just don't get it at all.

 

[100r1]

Judging from what some stuff gets on Ebay, I would say that's correct. I watch some auctions just to laugh at the insane prices some items get. I never understand it when someone pays more for a used whatever, than the same item costs new! It happens all the time for certain gun parts. The suckers will pay more, sometimes a lot more, for a gun barrel, than a new one from the manuafacturer is. I just don't get it at all.

I agree.

Then there are time like last night, I was watching a auction for a NEW behringer EP-1500 Amp. only 15 bidders and the final bidder won for $ 166.66 plus shipping. total just under $ 200.00 for a new EP-1500.

But then again I see people pay more for used stuff than I can purchase from other places new. Fools and their money.

 

[Warpdrv]

Fools and their money.

ARE SOON PARTED !!!!!!!

People will buy the weirdest crap.... just watch some of those weird auctions on ebay... just DUMB