My cat tore up my Virtual Dynamics Power 3...

[pompon]

Originally Posted by fraseyboy

Hmmm... I listened to my Testament 2.0 Coaxial Digital cable and it really does make a difference.

Perhaps its only the VD power cables that are built this way?

Only the Power3 FraseyBoy ...
Other cables uses linipur (1 conductor instead multi twisted).

Power3 use a standard wire but it's in a damping material (dynamic filtering)

DIY'er can try a normal wire and use a RenoDepot house and fill it with sand to see what happening.

The Power3 is sold 99$ ...

I heard Power3 vs my Nite and Master and another brand... Power3 was the cheeper price and It's good. I guess the biggest difference come from the dynamic filtering.

HighEnd dac put a lot of effort to try to minimize the mechanical vibration ... (in DAC .. no moving parts) but they take in consideration (a lot) vibrations.

If your powercable do a part of the job, I think it's a good thing.

Virtual Dynamic should put in circulation Power3 with and without the dynamic filtering material.

[Grizzlepaw]

Originally Posted by bigshot

Here are my constructive suggestions.

It's simple to convince me to consider your product. If you want me to try it out, provide objective testing that indicates a significant improvement... for instance an independently conducted double blind test of your cable against a range of low, medium and high end competitors.

Then, once you have objectively proved the superiority of your product, test to find out exactly why it works the way it does, measure the degree of improvement, and explain all of that to me clearly without exaggeration or sales pitch.

You're not going to convince me by seeding the forum with lots of subjective anecdotal opinions that describe sound in poetic vague terms and have no scientific explanation for what they observe. Your marketing campaign of providing freebee cables in exchange for reviews makes me totally suspicious of the validity of any reviews I see of your product, because of the lack of disclosure of the relationship between your company and the individual reviewers . A 90 day no questions asked money back guarantee is a much better way to allow people to try the products than throwing freebees around. And a hands off approach to reviewers will make me put more credence in what I hear about your products on this forum.

You have a bit of a public relations job to do though. The people way the official representatives of VD on this forum have behaved in the past have pretty much made me write your whole company off. Pricing your products in line with normal business markups of consumer products would help too.

See ya
Steve

Interestingly enough I have the preliminary results of a DBT of our interconnects in my email inbox. We won't be presenting them until the middle of May (once the paper is finished) but it shows a definite correlation between the dynamic filtering and SOL (magnet) technologies and an increase in slew rate.

I realize that just having my word on it isn't gonna be good anough for anyone, it wouldn't be good enough for me... Which is why we are putting in the money and time to have them tested by a third party (which doesn't mean we are paying to have them tested... the testing is being done for free, the money is the investment of materials, shipping, plane tickets to go down and film the results, ect.)

So yeah, if that is really all it is gonna take Bigshot, then I expect a sales order from you to be crossing Rita's desk within 3 months or so... assuming that you aren't misrepresenting your position. There does remain the possibility, however, that you aren't actually interested in improving your sound and your components, but intellectually invested in stroking your ego on this board. I'm going to be generous and assume you actually meant what you said... ;-)

Additionally, when you talk about our markups, do you want us to increase the price? Because if we were to bring our cables in line with other products in our industry we would have to double our current listed retail, at a minimum. Production cost is something we are trying quite hard to reduce, but getting the cables built in China just doesn't seem like a viable idea for us.

The best way for us to bring production costs, and therefore the price to our end user, down at this point is for us to increase our volume, which means increasing market share. We're working on that.

-Brad

PS. The results will be out sometime after May 5th.

[Uncle Erik]

Originally Posted by infinitesymphony

IPodPJ works in an audio store... It's his job to recommend equipment to clients. I doubt he's earning commission from VD.

Those are his words taken directly from his post. If he is earning commissions from audio companies, he is a Member of the Trade.

[gotchaforce]

Originally Posted by Uncle Erik

Those are his words taken directly from his post. If he is earning commissions from audio companies, he is a Member of the Trade.

Also i didnt even know that virtual dynamics had dealers.. i thought they were only internet direct for now??

[rootbeer]

Kill cat imo

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by rootbeer

Kill cat imo

You fail imo

[IPodPJ]

Originally Posted by infinitesymphony

IPodPJ works in an audio store... It's his job to recommend equipment to clients. I doubt he's earning commission from VD.

What the heck are you talking about? That's a complete and outright lie. You are confusing me with someone else. I have never worked in an audio store in my life. I have worked in the printing and graphics industry for the past 15 years.

[IPodPJ]

Originally Posted by Uncle Erik

Were you earning commissions without revealing yourself to be a Member of the Trade?

Do you still work for Virtual Dynamics?

LMAO. I have never worked for Virtual Dynamics. Matt Carter e-mailed me privately OUTSIDE OF HEAD-FI and told me that he would give me 10% commission on any orders that resulted from customers I sent their way. The one and ONLY customer I brought him was my neighbor (who is not a member of Head-Fi), and Rick managed to piss him off and screw up his order so bad that he will never order anything from them ever again, which is unfortunate for people like Matt and Brad who actually do try hard to keep the customer happy.

Don't accuse anyone of anything until you get your facts straight. Assumption is the mother of all f-ups.

I'm a straight shooter and play by the rules. I don't kiss ass or take bribes, never have and never will. I won a VD contest fair and square (you are welcome to visit the thread and see my design that won the contest). And obviously I don't have to answer to you or anybody else.

[kpeezy]

Originally Posted by IPodPJ

LMAO. I have never worked for Virtual Dynamics. Matt Carter e-mailed me privately OUTSIDE OF HEAD-FI and told me that he would give me 10% commission on any customers I brought him. The one and ONLY customer I brought him was my neighbor.

Don't accuse anyone of anything until you get your facts straight. Assumption is the mother of all f-ups.

Hahaha........ Wow. So, that's the work around huh? Just don't use the pm system and it's all cool

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by IPodPJ

LMAO. I have never worked for Virtual Dynamics. Matt Carter e-mailed me privately OUTSIDE OF HEAD-FI and told me that he would give me 10% commission on any customers I brought him. The one and ONLY customer I brought him was my neighbor, and Rick managed to piss him off and screw up his order so bad that he will never order anything from them ever again, which is unfortunate for people like Matt and Brad who actually do try hard to keep the customer happy.

Don't accuse anyone of anything until you get your facts straight. Assumption is the mother of all f-ups.

I'm a straight shooter and play by the rules. I don't kiss ass or take bribes, never have and never will. I won a VD contest fair and square (you are welcome to visit the thread and see my design that won the contest). And obviously I don't have to answer to you or anybody else.

You have that pistol aimed squarely at your foot, man...