You Can Get Rich From 'Snake Oil'!


Yes, vast fortunes await those who are willing to expose the "snake oil" that's rampant in audiophile land. Audiophile fuses, audiophile network switches, audiophile cables - it's all snake oil, according to the "experts." Here's just one recent claim:

The facts are that there is no theoretical improvement possible with any audiophile tweaks, and you have to have a solid understanding of how things work to understand that. And here is the problem, people without any relevant knowledge make fantastical claims of things that just cannot be true and it is easy to verify that is the case.

Stephen Tuttle laid the template for resolving audiophile misdirection in his action against Music Direct. Those who claim similar frauds here should follow suit. After all, "it is so easy to verify."

Imagine the enormity of the Class Action suit - the untold hoards who have been misled by placebo and expectation bias! Imagine the number of newbies that will be spared from misinformation!  And, of course, the vast wealth that will accrue to the plaintiffs as entire segments of the audiophile industry are taken apart and dissolved, with their ill-gotten gains distributed in strict accordance with a court order.

The naysayers are wasting their time here arguing with just a handful of audiophiles in our little corner of the Internet. They should be like Tuttle. Demonstrate the courage of their convictions (remember: "it is easy to verify"). Get some lawyers. Expose the truth.

Report back when done. Until then, they're just talking to themselves.

 

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I believe the class action suit against MoFi was due to them misrepresenting a manufacturing process.  Their advertising led one to believe that they never used a digital step in some of their lps.  Or is there another class action suit against them that I am unaware of?

Yes, that "misrepresentation" is what's known as "fraud," whether it was deliberate or inadvertent. The same principle would apply to "snake oil" - a product which does not perform as claimed, just as the MoFi LPs were not pure analog as claimed.

The MoFi lawsuit is a perfect example of the ambulance chasing mentality far to common in the legal profession.  The widespread "hurt feelings" mentality deserving of "justice" also to blame.

Did MoFi supply a defective product? NO.  Did MoFi cause harm to anyone?  NO.  Would the product delivered be measurably better without the digital step?  NO. Judge should have thrown this out with prejudice as stretching legal precepts far beyond reasonable boundaries.   

Cleed is proposing an environment where anybody that has "hurt feelings" should sue and expect a payday.  Could Cleed be a lawyer, because lawyers are the only ones that get the big payday in class action suits?  None of your business, or within your knowledge, to decide what is "snake oil".  Such a worn out, and plain stupid subject that too many in the audio hobby cling to for no useful purpose.

MoFi sold records with a description that it was 'all analog' and that was not so. That is the point. People paid a lot of money for something they thought they were getting, but did not. Has nothing to do with whether the sound is better or not. 

Nobody expects the Audio Inquisition! (with apologies to Monty Python)

All the best,
Nonoise