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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In response to Mijostyn:  I do tune my room using both home-made absorbers and diffusers and also commercial products that do the same.  I aim usually to eliminate any nasty peaks that are inherent to the room, and that's about my only goal.  But to paraphrase Joe McCarthy's famous question, I am not now, nor have I ever been interested in electronic methods to shape the frequency response of my amplifier/speakers.  I do modify my electronics and in one instance a speaker crossover, in order to improve upon the interaction between electronics and speakers.  The goal there is always compatible with a flat response at the level of electronics.  As I mentioned elsewhere, that was particularly important with respect to the Sound Lab 845PX crossover. In general, my opinion after 45 years as a hobbyist is that if your own choice of room/speaker/amplifier/front end equipment does not already get you 90-95% toward your own audio Nirvana, no amount of tweaking per se will get you the rest of the way. That includes ICs, power cords, NOS tubes, boutique parts, and various add-ons that closer to snake oil than to common sense.  The ICs, power cords, etc, can embellish, but you can't turn an audio sow's ear into a silk purse with gadgets.

What interests me is that in some posts you sound like you have been in the audio business, but from other posts I gather you are a physician, likely a pediatrician.  Since those to professions are quite different, I wonder which is correct.
Should have written "...that in my opinion are closer to snake oil...."Others are free to decide for themselves.
mahgister,

For your pretention to criticize my alleged method of "teaching", this is only your way to attribute something to my opinion that is not there..
You really misunderstand as much as I do. I was simply trying to tell you that the way you teach (quote from your teaching post: "End of lesson....") is barely comprehensible and you may want to work on it.

Your preferred method of delivering lessons needs improvement. If the student paying attention to a lesson cannot understand, the teacher needs improvement.
You really misunderstand as much as I do.
I think on this precise point about my way of explaining that you are right....

But if you correct me about anything it will be difficult for me to stay calm... 😊

But i understand what you say, and i am not an english speaker, then my presentation of an argument is more "square" than necessary.... I partake your judgement on this point.... I sometimes wrote too " squarely" point by point to be sure to be understood...

We are very different character glupson, it is better for us to be friends....My imagination need ground, but your walking pace sometimes need wings....it is better to complement each other instead of going to war with useless arguing....

I see you asking questions, doubting, but you never bash group of people indiscriminately....You are polite and not arrogant... I try to imitate that.... It is just that i dont like when people attack without reason and i am too passionate ....In an audio thread discussion must be open and without condemnation....

My best to you...
My fav was the metal cd disk monster cable made to help smooth out the content. Digital data isn’t smooth, or rough or harsh. It’s zero’s and ones. And it added more mass for the drive motor. The $1200 power cable is my next fav. All this massive cable plugged into a wall where the home builder bought the cheapest copper wire they could find. Lol.