Modern Snake Oil Salesmen....

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Antisocial Virge
I think this guy is a shill to who ever will pay for his review. $180 power outlet. Now if I was serious about the "micro air gap arching" as he is I would have silver soldered those connection instead of just using plane old screws. What an idiot.

That's just a standard $3 wall socket with some gold plating and a brass cover. Total cost to make is about $10-11.

I am now looking for some buisneess partners, private message me if you have capitol or are interested in joining forces.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Machina Dynamica Clever Little Clock

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina41.htm

"Remove the Clock from its clear bubble pack and place it anywhere in the listening room. The sound will be considerably more musical and live-sounding -- there will be less distortion, more information and a deeper, more coherent soundstage. Low frequencies will be articulate, extended and dynamic, high frequencies exceptionally smooth with phenomenal inner detail. In other words, More of Everything!! "

Wow. I'm speechless. I am embarrassed for humanity.

 

[Shawn]

what the hell is "snake oil"? where did this saying come from?

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Shawn
what the hell is "snake oil"? where did this saying come from?

The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies: a travelling "doctor" with dubious credentials, selling some medicine (such as snake oil) with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence. To enhance sales, an accomplice in the crowd (a "shill") would often "attest" the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying enthusiasm. The "doctor" would prudently leave town before his customers realized that they had been cheated. This practice is also called "grifting" and its practitioners "grifters".

W. C. Fields portrayed a Western frontier American snake oil salesman in Poppy (1936), complete with crowd accomplice. His demonstration (transparently fraudulent?to the movie audience) from the back of a buckboard of a miraculous cure for hoarseness ignited a comic purchasing frenzy.

English musician and comedy writer Vivian Stanshall satirised a miracle cosmetic as "Rillago?the great ape repellent" and many of J. B. Morton's Beachcomber books and radio programmes included short spoof advertisements for "Snibbo" a fictional treatment allegedly tackling various unlikely human conditions.

The practice of selling dubious remedies for real (or imagined) ailments still occurs today, albeit with some updated marketing techniques. Claims of 'cures' for chronic diseases (for example, diabetes mellitus) for which there are only symptomatic treatments available from "mainstream" medicine are especially common. The term snake oil peddling is used as a derogatory term to describe such practices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

I knew somebody was going to have the need ask that question.

 

[poncherelli2]

the signal!

 

[spidey07]

*sigh*

Fun to make fun of things that posters have never experienced. Just listen to a decent stereo or live with it for years and then you'll understand.

Again, it doesn't take an expensive cable to sound good, just a well made one.

oh well, my guests always ask "You have a quartet in your living room!!!!????" because they honestly thingkthere is. No, it's just the stereo.