Ludicrous concepts

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As a cable engineer, it's scary for me to see how many of those "snake oil" claims relate to cables! 😠

I was at the Hifi Wigwam show in March (

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Evan wrote:

On the topic of cables, anyone remember the $3000 USB cable from Locus? Still being sold.

Impressive indeed:

http://www.locus-design.com/index.php/cynosure-usb-cable

"I then braid this masterpiece of a wire into a proprietary braid so that the conductors are evenly spaced, and arranged in the configuration I want them to be."

Starting at $3549 for 3FT.

For those of you speaking German, here’s a site speaking about the phenomenon of "Hifi Voodoo" (with some additional links):

http://psiram.com/ge/index.php/Hifi-Voodoo

maclife wrote:

Evan wrote:

On the topic of cables, anyone remember the $3000 USB cable from Locus? Still being sold.

Impressive indeed:

http://www.locus-design.com/index.php/cynosure-usb-cable

"I then braid this masterpiece of a wire into a proprietary braid so that the conductors are evenly spaced, and arranged in the configuration I want them to be."

Starting at $3549 for 3FT.

For those of you speaking German, here’s a site speaking about the phenomenon of "Hifi Voodoo" (with some additional links):

http://psiram.com/ge/index.php/Hifi-Voodoo

 

Wow! Wonder if that USB lead will fit my printer? 😁

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Peter wrote:

This is my link - I think they have stopped selling them but one can still find references!

πŸ˜‰ - A fake Knob is so exquisitively apt! - it describes the product and it's buyers to perfection!πŸ˜‚ 

Steffen wrote:

Do you remember back in the 80's when somebody claimed that if you painted the edge of the CD's green you'd get a improvement in sound..? πŸ€”
You could even buy special marker pen's for the purpose. No -ofcourse you could not just use a green marker pen from the local bookseller...πŸ˜‚

Still being sold. 

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