Made me giggle...

[stavvy]

Bit late, and sorry if someone has already posted this:

http://www.chord.co.uk/blog/category/new-stuff/

 

[MajorFubar]

lol they need to take that down, someone's going to think it's for real and order it.

 

[stavvy]

A fool is easily parted with their money >)

 

[MajorFubar]

Yeah I see examples of that several times a week. Think what grieves me the most though is that while fools and their money are easily parted, they do seem to have a huge stash of it to start with.

 

[lpv]

ehhh.. and I needed 1.4673 meter to get some magic out of my guitar :rockout:

 

[stavvy]

as a chemist and an engineer i am open to a lot of the more esoteric ideas that come up in endless discussions here. I can to some degree see logic in the science, even if I highly doubt it would result in any kind of audible difference. For example I use a tacima filter on a sensitive tensile testing machine in the lab I work in because we seem to be having a lot of mains interference recently. It definitely works, there is about a 10 fold decrease in baseline noise in our experiments with the filter in place. Whether this translates to any audible difference in a hifi set up I cannot say.

Anyway, I'm rambling, the best one I have heard of recently is freezing your cds before playing them, the mind boggles.....

 

[steve_1979]

Is that a joke or are they actually being serious?

 

[stavvy]

check the date it was originally posted :doh:

 

[richardw42]

Steve. Look at the date on the ad.

 

[Overdose]

It's an April fools gag. The really funny thing is that if it weren't a joke, quite a few people would buy it and plenty of this type of thing does actually sell.

I said funny, actually I meant sad.

 

[stavvy]

sorry steve did you mean chord or the freezing cds thing?

 

[Overdose]

sorry steve did you mean chord or the freezing cds thing?

That'd sound cool.

 

[steve_1979]

check the date it was originally posted :doh:

Steve. Look at the date on the ad.

It can be tricky to tell is they're being serious or not with some of these magical foo cable companies

 

[steve_1979]

sorry steve did you mean chord or the freezing cds thing?

Chord.

 

[andyjm]

as a chemist and an engineer i am open to a lot of the more esoteric ideas that come up in endless discussions here. I can to some degree see logic in the science, even if I highly doubt it would result in any kind of audible difference. For example I use a tacima filter on a sensitive tensile testing machine in the lab I work in because we seem to be having a lot of mains interference recently. It definitely works, there is about a 10 fold decrease in baseline noise in our experiments with the filter in place. Whether this translates to any audible difference in a hifi set up I cannot say.

This is a good point, and I am afraid used a lot in questionable product advertising. Recent ASA rulings have unfortunately allowed this through. Something along the lines of 'a significant reduction in RF by using the whizzbang mains cable' . The claim may well be true, but has no effect on the audio output of the amp.

 

[the record spot]

Is that a joke or are they actually being serious?

Heh, were you on your starting blocks there Steve...?

 

[steve_1979]

Is that a joke or are they actually being serious?

Heh, were you on your starting blocks there Steve...?

Can't be bothered with it all any more TBH.