The shams, scams and dead ends of the High Fidelity hobbie/passion/adiction


I am not real current so I may have missed a few. The ones I remember are SQ and any other name for "Quadraphonic", Perfect sound forever, and I will see what my fellow A’goNers can come up with. As a bit of a variation on a theme, I wonder what the most profitable B.S. audio trend/product was?...certianly the 8-track tapes sold well.....and ate themselves rather quickly.   

Sould likely have included the second D in addiction...


whatjd
+1 Millercarbon! That stuff is like the Goop products Gweneth Paltrow flogs to the brainless

Yes and by what a coincidence, Gweneth Paltrow is as much a theoretical physicist as gk.

Most high end accessories/tweaks especially, wires, fuses, risers, etc. one will find advertised all over the place here.
A sufficiently advanced technology will be ridiculed as a hoax or deemed magic by the average yahoo. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: I looked for it but I was unable to find it anywhere. 
Graphene twisted just the right way does become a superconductor.....

at a few degrees above absolute zero

how very useful 

or useFULL 
Lately USB reclockers seem to popular along with anything NOS in a DAC. I think expensive  fat cables and directional fuses probably do more.