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What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

I was flipping through the accessory pages at the Cable Company and came up with this https://www.thecableco.com/hallograph.html You have to be kidding me. Of all the dumb, idiotic, profoundly stupid things I have ever seen. The marketing is even better! Have you seen anything worse! It is up to us to uncover these things for what they are, SCAMS.

Mike
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hobo1452
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PS Audio Noise Harvester. I know it's snake oil but I still bought one! The blue flashing LED did show me which dimmer switches were making the most noise, but made absolutely no difference in the sound of my system. I think Paul invented it for a joke just to see how many suckers he could reel in!
audio2design
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I think it would cost more to keep a patent pending for 17 years given than it would cost to simply file it.  I am guessing that patent application is long since not pending.
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cakyol
940 posts
 
In descending order of ridiculousness, proportional to its price:

- cable lifters
- boutique fuses
- power cables
- digital cables
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punkrock67
32 posts
 
The green pen for coloring the edges of cd’s..
lohanimal
659 posts
 
Green cartridge stylus paper. Used in the 80’s to disastrous effect by most. Either blunted styli or alternatively sharpened them to a lethal point.
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