Quack System Upgrades

I would not bang on Blue Jean cable that much here. I also wouldn’t say that it’s snake oil. First thing, it’s the job of any dealer/manufacturer to try to sell their product, so if you ask them if their product is better than a different product, they are obviously going to try to influence you to think their product is better.

They are a distrubitor of Beldon and Canare bulk cable. I have not tested Canare, but Beldon cable is a mixed lot. The Audioholics site is a big fan of the Beldon 10awg speaker cable and they say you don’t need anything more. However, under testing, I found the Beldon to be completely lacking and the standard 12awg stranded OFC speaker cable (basically monster cable) out-performed the Beldon. The Beldon cable just sounded lo-fi and did not have the resolution of even the 12awg stranded OFC.

However, I do find that the Beldon digital products are excellent. Both the HDMI and Digital Coax cables perform excellently. I have not tested these against super-exotic thousand dollar cables, but they have actually performed better than some Neotech HDMI and Audioquest silver digital coax cables. In this case, Beldon and Blue Jean cables know what they are talking about with regards to digital signal transmission.

Sorry guys, I had no intention of this getting serious. My wording of the post probably could have been a little better. I was hoping for stuff like Nigel Tuffnel's Marshall amp that goes to 11 (Spinal Tap) or a product like Organlike Cables. See link below.

https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2016/09/20/the-far-corners-the-skin-effect-and-albanias-organike-cables.

I was hoping to share some laughs, not serious debates.

That being said, What Snake Oil upgrades (that are obviously not real) have you come across. Lets try to keep it funny folks. I like to laugh :)

Along the humorous line, does anyone know if  machinadynamica is  real

Or is this a "tongue and cheek" humorous web site? (perhaps administrated my Nigel Tuffnel himself)

 I saw a few months back an add they had for beach sand or pebbles (can't remember which) that were supposed to be used for something or other. Isolation perhaps?