[Hutnicks]

  My favorite is still the green pen marker for CDs.
 

Top ten craziest audio 'enhancements'

I am partial to this stuff myself.
http://6moons.com/audioreviews/3tweaks/3.html
 
The Stone, eventually dropped by Stereophile resurfaces at 6moons. What could be better than an audiophile grade lump of coal.  And hey, apparently some audio tweaks improve gas mileage too!

 

[Redcarmoose]

We seem to be calling the kettle black. Just showed my system to a non audiophile and she thought I was crazy. Where do you draw the line. Any of these tweeks, though not scientific or provable garner a real improvement in the mind of some? Placebo triggered perception.

 

[Redcarmoose]

 

[Redcarmoose]

Even Sony with their 200 year old wood headphones, getting back to wood.

 

[Redcarmoose]

The greatest tweak of course was that strange idea that two signals could be more lifelike than one?

 

[Hutnicks]

Dunno about the cables there, but that Hello Kitty shower curtain is guaranteed to enhance treble.
 
Even back then there were major players who doubted that Stereo would be anything but a flash in the pan. Culshaw speaks of it in The Ring Resounding.
 
I actually ran Pirelli Nuclear Shield cable for a while. The sound was not bad and the gee whiz factor of thick yellow rubber jacketed armored cable had it's appeal

 

[fleasbaby]

Even Sony with their 200 year old wood headphones, getting back to wood.

 
I love my woodies. That said, I draw the line at butchering a 200 year old tree for my aural amusements. I am already feeling some pangs of guilt using Ebony, Blackwood and a few others. As I said before....want to look at less exotic possibilities...

 

[Redcarmoose]

Dunno about the cables there, but that Hello Kitty shower curtain is guaranteed to enhance treble.

Even back then there were major players who doubted that Stereo would be anything but a flash in the pan. Culshaw speaks of it in The Ring Resounding.

I actually ran Pirelli Nuclear Shield cable for a while. The sound was not bad and the gee whiz factor of thick yellow rubber jacketed armored cable had it's appeal

For years my amp was a late 1960s Scott and it had the stereo and center channel to try and fill out the center which so many mono-purests were upset with.

Sadly most of the best album mixes from the time were also mono, with stereo being the after-thought effort.


The most elaborate tube amp I have ever seen was mono. Just racks of tubes and a speaker which looked like two Voice Of The Theater cabinets glued together.

Embarrassingly I have a bigger investment in cables than headphones. Where that places me I don't know?

 

[Redcarmoose]

I love my woodies. That said, I draw the line at butchering a 200 year old tree for my aural amusements. I am already feeling some pangs of guilt using Ebony, Blackwood and a few others. As I said before....want to look at less exotic possibilities...

Still Sony limited production to only 2000 pairs. I don't know, I think trees grow back. The couple hundred species of animals we loose every year is much more dramatic for me, as they are never to return.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 The couple hundred species of animals we loose every year is much more dramatic for me, as they are never to return.

That many?  Source?

 

[Redcarmoose]

That many?  Source?

Bugs and plant life and animals ends up a lot. Don't know where I saw the list, plus don't know about the validity of the list I saw? Still here is one.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Bugs and plant life and animals ends up a lot. Don't know where I saw the list, plus don't know about the validity of the list I saw? Still here is one.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status

 
That's an endangered list -- not clear how many species are actually lost each year -- kaput.
Still. That's a lot. But not all by the hand of Man, I presume.

 

[jmills8]

One gets used to a sound. As cats do many run from one room into another room expecting the next room is better. Sometimes it is for awhile.

 

[Redcarmoose]

That's an endangered list -- not clear how many species are actually lost each year -- kaput.

Still. That's a lot. But not all by the hand of Man, I presume.

Yes, your right. I really meant a list of lost life forms. I did see a list once showed the insects and plant life along with the animal species we lost by the year, going back the last 5 years. It was dramatic.

The fact that we lose a whole list of plant life every year. I'll look for a list of that. It's dramatic.

http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/lists/mostrecent.htm
Edit:

http://eol.org/collections/55306

 

[CanadianMaestro]

One gets used to a sound. As cats do many run from one room into another room expecting the next room is better. Sometimes it is for awhile.

aka. novelty-seeking. or is it mouse-hunting?