Quack System Upgrades

honeybee2012
mbaudio has it backwards. By definition Snake Oil has to have TWO components; unbelievable performance claims and wildly expensive products, therefore, following this precept:

Audioquest cables make outragous claims and are expensive.
BlueJeans cables makes modest claims and is reasonably priced.

The wise audiophile will purchase Blue Jeans Cable!

BUT if Audioquest’s outrageous claims are true and Blue Jeans modest claims are also true then you could say the cheap and casual audiophile will purchase Blue Jeans Cables whereas the true high end oriented audiophile will find a way to purchase Audioquest Cables. Isn’t that more or less WHY they call their product Blue Jeans? And why THEY call their product Audio Quest? So, you see, Snake Oil has nothing to do with it.

01-02-2017 6:17pm
Hi Jerry, Ben used to build Dale Earnhardt Sr's...

Ummmmm, Ben and Jerry! Chunky Monkey!

Dave, that certainly was a 'serious motivator' to be on the street, esp. in that chassis.  It's always been the hp/lbs. ratio that makes the difference between the 'wannabe' and a Serious Slingshot. *G*
One of my fav memories of the era was witnessing a refrig white Lotus Elan having a 'vette pull up next to it, rumblin' and grumblin'.  Light went green and the Elan sucked the doors off the 'vette  It caught him, but didn't happen until 3rd gear.  The ego scar had already been made...
The track here in AVL has become a bicycle track with a memorial to it's heritage beside it.  One can only imagine what occurred 'back in the day'...and what the locals cooked up in the garages around here.....

"Telephone speakers as passive radiators...."  OhhhK...  Hmmm, then I should hold my breath to prevent my chest cavity from vibrating as well.  Who knows how my mere presence is effecting what I'm hearing.  Sounds like a wander into quantum physics where the act of observation effects the outcome.  "Spooky action at a distance", my playing my music is effecting Yours whether or not you like it or not....
Mmmm....maybe that's why hi-end cables work....or don't.  All this EM energy we're soaked in daily is making the quantum soup de jour roil 'n boil and make Debussy sound like Deadmau5.  Just shows to go ya'...;)

You can sit there and think "Jerry's grip on Reality is getting pretty vague."  Well, I knew that quite awhile ago and it actually helped. *L*  When the theorists' are telling us that Reality (what a concept) resembles a hologram in some aspects, IMHO the mirrors in this funhouse were pretty bent before we showed up for the floor show.  But my tin foil helmet is oxidising badly at this point from all the orgone energy on this forum.....*Really Big Smirk*

....but I'm merely an absurd, I mean, Observer.  Yeah....that....

avsjerry wrote,

""Telephone speakers as passive radiators...." OhhhK... Hmmm, then I should hold my breath to prevent my chest cavity from vibrating as well. Who knows how my mere presence is effecting what I’m hearing. Sounds like a wander into quantum physics where the act of observation effects the outcome. "Spooky action at a distance", my playing my music is effecting Yours whether or not you like it or not..."

Things are actually worse than you have surmised. Much worse. I was trying to say that while idea that the tiny telephone speaker acts as a passive radiator is not true. But it’s not an old wives tale, it’s something deeper and more mysterious. Th original claim that telephones interfered with the sound was precipitated by Ivor Tiefenbrun of Linn turntable fame.

Consider this - conduct an experiment to see if having a telephone in the room affects the sound, let’s say a controlled blind test. And let’s say the experiment shows that the telephone in the room hurts the sound as observed by the subject(s). Next, remove the tiny speaker from the telephone. Then repeat the experiment. The results should remain the same even without the tiny speaker in the telephone? Therefore speaker in the telephone is not responsible for the change in sound. It must be something else. But what? By the same token, a cell phone in the room spoils the sound. Or a telephone book.