Overpriced Amp power cord?

[tedmich]

Excellent business model RG! Perhaps the sheep (or silk worms) should be raised exclusively listening to the exact music the socks will be used for..." that's the Al Di Meola sheep over there wearing the Sennheiser HD 800's"

One of my favorite audiophile products is a magic spray which is claimed to "tubify" all the nasty silicon based components, with many testimonials about how beautifully analog they sound after a spritz.

[Muskratt]

OK I got it!

We are just misunderstanding the part is a quality one dollar recepticle that is plated three times by little sweat shop folks. Seems the price is elevated due to the Gold value.
If its plated once it would cost 48.00, twice 97.00 or the three plate at 147.00...

This is really beyond. if you plug in and out the gold will wear.

Tell you what lets take 10 people and a standard receptacle and one of these fancy ones and let them stick there tongues in each to see what one works better?
Folks that buy these just have way to much money.
Is you AV receiver got gold plated plugins? so why would you even think it need such a receptacle.

[cminor9]

OK I got it!

We are just misunderstanding the part is a quality one dollar recepticle that is plated three times by little sweat shop folks. Seems the price is elevated due to the Gold value.
If its plated once it would cost 48.00, twice 97.00 or the three plate at 147.00...

This is really beyond. if you plug in and out the gold will wear.

Tell you what lets take 10 people and a standard receptacle and one of these fancy ones and let them stick there tongues in each to see what one works better?
Folks that buy these just have way to much money.
Is you AV receiver got gold plated plugins? so why would you even think it need such a receptacle.

So what we need to do is sell a protective adapter for those fancy gold receptacles. It can be one of these: http://www.hardwarestore.com/media/p...8_front200.jpg
You plug into it, and leave it plugged into the wall so as to preserve the gold. I think we could fetch about $40 for one of those. Anybody with me? hahaha

[JoeK]

Wattgate 381 Audio Grade Duplex Socket 110-439

read the reviews

Got up to about page 5 Very funny stuff Thanks!

[Muskratt]

So what we need to do is sell a protective adapter for those fancy gold receptacles. It can be one of these: http://www.hardwarestore.com/media/p...8_front200.jpg
You plug into it, and leave it plugged into the wall so as to preserve the gold. I think we could fetch about $40 for one of those. Anybody with me? hahaha

Yeah I on board with ya...

But Act now and receive a 2nd one absolutely free just pay separate processing fee and postage!
Your package will arrive by US Postal Shnail Male.. "A wore out anemic zombie worker"

[Enzo]

Those socks better be woven of linear crystal, oxygen free fibers.

[Enzo]

And cryogenically irradiated.

[tedmich]

This interconnect wire is $8580.55 per meter
Audio Note AN-CABLE-SOOTTO silver grey interconnect cable Hifi Collective
this 8.2uF capacitor is $5615.55
(CASTAG-100) - 8.2uF Duelund CAST Silver Hifi Collective
This 300B OT (Audio Note™ Silver wire and AN Super Perma 55% Nickel 0.08mm core) is $12964.43
TRANS-300/03-D Hifi Collective


There are 3 types of "wadding" for speaker cabs
A)Mundorf Twaron Angel Hair Wadding
B)Mundorf Twaron Elves`Hair Wadding
C)Mundorf Twaron Unicorn`Tail Wadding

guess which is the most expensive?

[cminor9]

There are 3 types of "wadding" for speaker cabs
A)Mundorf Twaron Angel Hair Wadding
B)Mundorf Twaron Elves`Hair Wadding
C)Mundorf Twaron Unicorn`Tail Wadding

guess which is the most expensive?

I would have guessed Unicorn tail, but boy was I wrong!

Also, the designer of that site should be sacked. Borderline unusable. What a HORRIBLY designed site!

[Ronsonic]

I like the Sonic-Sox concept. Well that's the brand name I'm selling them under. Oh and mine are white for uncolored sound.

I am also developing a line of room tuning accessories that will improve the sonics of your listening environment. High end audio listeners have known for years that tuning the room rates right up there with quality of speakers. Now think back to when you were first blown away by the quality of a stereo. There was an important feature of the listening room that hasn't been replicated in a long time. Yes, album covers laying out on the floor. Now that we mostly listen to CDs and other digital formats we no longer have twelve inch squares of cardboard tossed onto the floor or leaning against the chair or wall where they were left after dropping the needle (or removing seeds from another important audiophile accessory). We sell replicas of classic album covers of the same density and thickness used in the originals for the finest listening experience.

But ya know what is real? Take your glasses off.

[Muskratt]

This interconnect wire is $8580.55 per meter
Audio Note AN-CABLE-SOOTTO silver grey interconnect cable Hifi Collective
this 8.2uF capacitor is $5615.55
(CASTAG-100) - 8.2uF Duelund CAST Silver Hifi Collective
This 300B OT (Audio Note™ Silver wire and AN Super Perma 55% Nickel 0.08mm core) is $12964.43
TRANS-300/03-D Hifi Collective


There are 3 types of "wadding" for speaker cabs
A)Mundorf Twaron Angel Hair Wadding
B)Mundorf Twaron Elves`Hair Wadding
C)Mundorf Twaron Unicorn`Tail Wadding

guess which is the most expensive?

Hmmm I say those who either Buy or Make this stuff are on some kind of Pixie Dust of some sort. The only way you can afford something like this is to be a Pixie Dust dealer...
Does on really need something that expensive to listen to music?
For the price of one I can go out and buy me a killer Full Stack and a Guitar with cables and FX. So why would you pay 6-Digits for a audio system that the human ear cannot distinguish? (For the most Part)

Whats wrong with folks anymore..

[Steve A.]

I've seen these $150-300 AC power cables in the audiophile catalogs, along with the $500 "interconnects" (P.S. where I come from we call them audio cables). If you think that the music industry is filled with smoke and mirrors it is nothing compared to the audiophile community.

Question: If a pedophile is someone who molests children, what do audiophiles do to audio?

Steve Ahola

P.S. The Mercury Magnetics AC power cord for $10 looks tempting but I think that once you add in shipping and handling you are approaching Monster Cable territory (the guys who make the expensive "interconnects" for those people on a K-Mart budget). I have several dozen spare IEC cables from various equipment that died in the line of duty and most of them are pretty flimsy- I think mainly the ones for cheap computer peripherals. It seems like many of the guitar amps come with a heavier duty power cord, but they all get mixed up at my condo. Weighing them would be one way to tell them apart. And I wish more amp mfgs would include IEC cables longer than 6 feet! While that length works well with computer gear (especially anything plugged into a USB jack) we usually need something longer than that for guitar amps and processors.

If you want a heavier gauge IEC cord, or one that is longer HOSA does make an IEC adaptor that you can plug into the end of any 3 prong extension cord:

Hosa PWA421 IEC Female to 3 Prong Male Power Cable Adapter

It seems like there would be an advantage to having the power cable shielded for audio or musical equipment- is this blurb from a Monster Cable listing for real or is it just marketing crap?

100% mylar foil shield for superior rejection of EM and RF interference

[Steve Conner]

Question: If a pedophile is someone who molests children, what do audiophiles do to audio?

An audiophile is someone who uses music to listen to his hi-fi. People who molest audio are called mastering engineers.

Most of the audiophile power cables use off-the-shelf IEC and AC outlet plugs, camouflaged under a few layers of heavy duty heatshrink, nylon braid, unicorn's tail feathers, snake oil etc. The guys who make them don't have any more resources than the average hobbyist, they just have less moral scruples.

You can buy plugs and some good quality 3-core power cable, and make your own leads in whatever length you want. For tube amps, I like to make them with the woven fabric-covered cable you get for appliances like electric irons.

The cool looking transparent "Wattgate" plugs aren't that expensive, at least by audiophile standards.

[R.G.]

100% mylar foil shield for superior rejection of EM and RF interference[/B]

Like all good ...er, advertising... there is a grain of truth buried there that helps the hook get swallowed.

In fact, some computer equipment uses power cords with 100% foil shields specifically to get an extra db or so of suppression of RF and EMI. It's a tiny adder to the cost of the cable, in the $1 range. But it is to suppress EMI and RF coming OUT of the machine. I suspect that it might, in a very rarified, odd set of circumstances help reject RF coming in; so they can't be brought up for completely lying about it. And it's only effective at really, really RF, not audio. So that pushes the argument into "well, then any RF can't be rectified/detected to audio to sully the pristine-ness of the audio" even after it's passed through a power transformer that can't pass midrange audio or above, rectifiers to chop it into DC, and filter capacitors to eat any remaining AC.

Still, maybe, under some special conditions, you might be able to *detect* some rejection.

Sigh.

Audiophile accessories: a non-governmental tax on being naive, slow, or uninformed.

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