There is no limit to crazy...

[highfigh]

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

You have to admit, it's very convenient- no need to refill, no sucking on a bottle that has gook all over the opening, no problems if someone else wants a swig and no backwash.

 

[highfigh]

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:

What's oozing out of the ground? Certainly not brains.

 

[lovinthehd]

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

Reminds me of the Penn & Teller bit

 

[hemiram]

You have to admit, it's very convenient- no need to refill, no sucking on a bottle that has gook all over the opening, no problems if someone else wants a swig and no backwash.

That's true enough, and when I lived in Las Vegas, bottled water was a necessity, as the tap water, while being healthy for you (The minerals in it helped prevent heart disease), it tasted pretty gross.

 

[hemiram]

Reminds me of the Penn & Teller bit

I remember that one! Odd that no one tasted the rubber hose. I drank a lot of water out of them over the years, and it was hard to ignore.

 

[Montucky]

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

Haha. And you want to really boggle an audiophile's mind? I mean the type of audiophile that bought the giganto gauge power cables. Ask them what gauge the wire element inside their amp's power supply's fuse is.

 

[highfigh]

That's true enough, and when I lived in Las Vegas, bottled water was a necessity, as the tap water, while being healthy for you (The minerals in it helped prevent heart disease), it tasted pretty gross.

A bit West of Milwaukee is a place where the well water smells of sulfur if it's not heavily filtered and it leaves really nasty mineral deposits.

 

[hemiram]

To me, it was a toss up between the disgusting tap water in Vegas and the awful "softened" water my mom had at her house. I've been able to taste salt everytime I had water that came out of a softener. I'm a supertaster and it's been obvious. Most of the time they claim there isn't any salt if the softener is "properly adjusted", which IMHO, is only possible when it's not connected at all.