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Old 28th May 2020, 9:41 am   #1521
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Not really audiophoolery, but close. https://teslastyle101.com/tesla-radiation-balancer/ . And https://5gbioshield.com/ .

This guy had a very serious scientific career, outlined in his CV https://teslastyle101.com/curicullum-vitae/ . But something very peculiar happened in 2000...

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Old 28th May 2020, 10:39 am   #1522
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Messianic!

The illustration clearly shows the invisible dome of protection covering your whole home, so for something so powerful, fixing the sound of your hifi ought to be just a trivial side-effect. Milk will last longer without a fridge as well.

Once you crack this pseudoscience lark, there is no longer anywhere you have to stop. You can, indeed, become a or the god. Though I reckon it's safer to just stop at Chief Prophet otherwise someone's going to deduce that omnipotence and omniscience together leave you vulnerable to the accusation that you're responsible for everything.

We'll know he's succeeding if there is a sudden flood of odd little elliptical meters on the surplus market.

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Old 28th May 2020, 10:41 am   #1523
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A recommendation from the late Dr Masaru Emoto no less (which, bless him, is not worth a great deal according to the scientific community)

The whole document smells more like a subtle induction to a wallet emptying device rather than the CV of a man who has drifted away from reality. Highly dubious in my opinion!

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Old 28th May 2020, 12:22 pm   #1524
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Not really audiophoolery, but close. https://teslastyle101.com/tesla-radiation-balancer/ . And https://5gbioshield.com/ .


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Yes I saw an article about the 5gbioshield. It's actually a £5 USB stick you can buy on the internet. Oh sorry, of course it isn't they take them and do something very scientific to make them worth almost £400.
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Old 28th May 2020, 12:42 pm   #1525
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Poor, poor Mr. Tesla- he must be turning in his grave (and without recourse to a 3-phase motor, either). His name seems to have become tacked on to every passing fad of pseudo-science and swivel-eyed fruit-loopery in an attempt to give it some form of credibility.
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Old 28th May 2020, 1:58 pm   #1526
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They ought to be connected up to Tesla's machine shown in the attached. That would sort them out.

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Old 28th May 2020, 2:16 pm   #1527
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Charlatans have tried to attach themselves to every scientific name that has achieved greatness, and the profitably gullible have heard of. Einstein, etc. Tesla had a vein of slightly dodgy showmanship in him, so I guess he was a natural for them.

I guess they're still uncertain about Heisenberg.

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Old 28th May 2020, 2:29 pm   #1528
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I guess they're still uncertain about Heisenberg.

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Ha ha ha! They also have no idea when they use the word "quantum" it means a physical entity that has inherent uncertainty.

Like the Newton's two-slit experiment when turning down the intensity so that a single photon is in the instrument at any time. And you still get a two slit interference pattern https://www.teachspin.com/two-slit .

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Old 28th May 2020, 2:40 pm   #1529
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Yes Tesla did have a number of strange quirks. Wardenclyffe would probably not have worked, and he spent a good chunk of his life trying to get funding for death rays and the like.

But Newton, once he had got Principia and Opticks out of his system, spent much of the rest of his long life perusing alchemy and trying to transmute elements.

Newton was so detested as a lecturer that no one came to his lectures. But he had to deliver them because his position at Cambridge required that he had to do so. So he would turn up to an empty classroom, deliver the lecture, and then leave.

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Old 28th May 2020, 8:47 pm   #1530
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Old 29th May 2020, 4:10 pm   #1531
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Here you go - https://www.crystalcable.com/product...ltimate-dream/

The price? £21,350 for a 1 metre pair.

The guy that owns Crystal Cable also owns Siltech https://www.siltechcables.com/, spendor https://www.spendoraudio.com/ and https://sme.co.uk/audio/turntables/ . Indian rich entrepreneur and high end audio enthusiast called Ajay Shirke. He was the guy behind the decision to supply SME tonearms *only* with an SME record deck.

Almost forgot - last year he acquired the Garrard brand name, and bought Loricraft, which had the right to manufacture Garrard-derived decks. Now a pale shadow https://loricraftaudio.co.uk/ .

This is the sort of deck that Loricraft used to design, that Shirke acquired when he took over Loricraft https://hometheaterreview.com/garrar...able-reviewed/

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Old 29th May 2020, 4:53 pm   #1532
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He was the guy behind the decision to supply SME tonearms *only* with an SME record deck.
That's good.

It will allow them to concentrate on the purity of their holistic offering with less distraction from sales.

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Old 30th May 2020, 8:02 am   #1533
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Too right David

From the 1967 SME price list, accounting for inflation, a 3009 tone arm would be ~£500 and the 12" version ~£550 now. When they stopped supplying tonearms separately the 9" MkV was ~£5k and the 12" version ~£7k.

Now the cheapest deck/arm combination is about the price of a base model Mini, rising at the upper end to the price of a Tesla 3. Before you buy a cartridge.

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Old 30th May 2020, 12:25 pm   #1534
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Daft.
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Old 30th May 2020, 12:49 pm   #1535
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And this is where the world of vintage equipment comes to the rescue!

There are already plenty of excellent turntables and arms out there. Some might need a bit of TLC, but has there really been that much progress since they were made? Progress in real engineering and real performance? Not progress in hype, bull and pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo.

Using Craig's levelled playing field, considering the SME 3009 at £500 and the mark V at £5000, is the new one really ten times better? in fact how many people could even reliably tell any difference without visual cues?

Modern manufacturing has got cleverer and things have got cheaper to make. If someone really wanted to make an exact 3009 replica, in the quantities they were made back in the day, I think they could beat £500.

If anyone wants really good hifi, the gear is out there and waiting. So long as you dodge the cult items, you'll find bargains. As good if not better.

Instead of £4500 more on a better arm, how about £100 on some room treatment?

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Old 30th May 2020, 1:54 pm   #1536
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Speaking of visual, what's behind a wallnut overcoat for your cartridge?
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Totally Mucking Fad, 20+k for a bit (a whole metre) of electrical string. The powers that be are now checking on a £300 "5G USB protector" about time they looked into this sort of total rip off.
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Totally Mucking Fad, 20+k for a bit (a whole metre) of electrical string. The powers that be are now checking on a £300 "5G USB protector" about time they looked into this sort of total rip off.
You're not obliged to buy them.
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Old 30th May 2020, 4:38 pm   #1539
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Totally Mucking Fad, 20+k for a bit (a whole metre) of electrical string. The powers that be are now checking on a £300 "5G USB protector" about time they looked into this sort of total rip off.
You're not obliged to buy them.
You're not obliged to buy lots of things but it's just ethically wrong that this type of thing should go on. To be truthful, no-one is ever going to get me to part with large sums of hard earned cash to buy a piece of audiophoolery, so I shouldn't be annoyed by it, but why should charlatans be allowed to get away with it? The problem is, where do you draw the line between a genuine high end, high but reasonably priced item and one that just goes too far into the smoke and mirrors abyss? You can't. And at the end of the day, if someone believes and says - never mind the scientific proof - that something just sounds 'better', then they're covered; it doesn't have to demonstrably be better. And that's what's so annoying; these guys are getting away with ripping people off in the highest order.
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Old 30th May 2020, 5:08 pm   #1540
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Speaking of visual, what's behind a wallnut overcoat for your cartridge?
There's a guy in Sweden de-canning aluminium electrolytic capacitors and re-homing the innards in wooden boxes. Says it greatly improves the sound. Do different woods have different 'sonic signatures'?

Their life expectancy due to water permeability might be questioned.

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