Unbelievable tripe
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Topic: Unbelievable tripe
Posted By: midas
Subject: Unbelievable tripe
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 8:35am
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Morning everyone. I saw this and couldn't help myself, I just had to share it with you all...Go on what do you think of this fantastic solution to an issue that doesn't exist. https://www.facebook.com/share/1GJDKWPrEG/" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/share/1GJDKWPrEG/ ------------- In bass no one can hear you scream! |
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Posted By: godathunder
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 10:17am
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they also sell bags of magic sand https://www.entreq.com/products/accessories/vibbeaters/vibbeaters/" rel="nofollow - https://www.entreq.com/products/accessories/vibbeaters/vibbeaters/ ------------- LOUDER THAN LOUD |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 12:11pm
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I don't see any prices anywhere. I image that you'd need to take out a mortgage to afford any of their crap -- BUT Swedish, so maybe IKEA do DIY kits!!  ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 12:41pm
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I found the prices for above-mentioned gizmos.....a bag of sand....literally! https://www.soundstagehifi.co.uk/shop/p/entreq-maxmix-t2-kit?srsltid=AfmBOor5GLf1CpWWc7TBZ6rwIbR4bzzMyct-w5FSN74VvgtFXRIxE0Zf ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 12:45pm
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£1000 "Both the Max T and the Mix T2 contain a metal mix which works to both reduce vibrations at the speaker terminals and to influence the magnetic fields around the terminals. The result is a lowered noise level, increased dynamics, and significantly better signal flow." So now we know. How did we ever manage without them?  ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 1:03pm
Oh, and the bag-o-sand is actually a bargain at £98?  Vibbeaters are placed on top of loudspeakers and other components in your system. They work in three ways; giving the unit greater stability simply by means of the weight of the Vibbeater itself, converting unwanted vibrations into low-level heat via the specific granular mineral mixture inside the Vibbeater and by positively affecting the magnetic fields generated in and around the unit itself again, via the granular mineral mixture. Easy to use with stunning results. https://www.analogueseduction.net/isolation/entreq-vibbeater-vibration-energy-control.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqh5M95mavdwR6nh6stxBqClAq80JsugVFLHaie8VpOdC9IuHcW Also available at your local builders merchant for £2.50 for 25kg.
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Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 2:57pm
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Unbelievable. The crap people swallow with regard to audio! They almost deserve to lose their money - or hang themselves on that £10,000/m audio cable!! ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: godathunder
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 4:02pm
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just to clarify, for the sake of my own embarrasment I wasn't searching for vibbeaters honest, it was just a butterfingers moment while I was searching for vibrators.............. ------------- LOUDER THAN LOUD |
Posted By: jammin75
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 5:50pm
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https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-silver-extreme-level-uk-mains-fuse?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18314679096&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0bShh_2hkQMVRI9QBh3R8SXOEAQYBSABEgI7q_D_BwE" rel="nofollow - https://www.futureshop.co.uk/quantum-science-audio-silver-extreme-level-uk-mains-fuse?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18314679096&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0bShh_2hkQMVRI9QBh3R8SXOEAQYBSABEgI7q_D_BwE talkin about hifi at work showed my mate this !!
they have a gold version 8k with vat ------------- feel the vibes !!! "Who Feels it Knows it" Strong like Lion |
Posted By: monkeypuzzle
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 6:05pm
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There are people on this planet that can't feed their kids and some fcuknut is spoending that on a fuse? Back in the sea the lot of them... I had a look on the rest of their site, £10k for a 2m piece of speaker cable... FFS... ------------- blah blah blah blah blah...... |
Posted By: jammin75
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 6:18pm
'a fool and his money is easily parted ' this rings true  ------------- feel the vibes !!! "Who Feels it Knows it" Strong like Lion |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 6:53pm
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Oh there is some great stuff on that site, what a find...how about £21,275 for a 1.2 metre power lead.... https://www.futureshop.co.uk/nordost-odin-2-uk-mains-power-cable?_gl=1*v91r4*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0bShh_2hkQMVRI9QBh3R8SXOEAQYBSABEgI7q_D_BwE ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: 4D
Date Posted: 03 December 2025 at 9:30pm
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Price as a proxy for quality, price and exotic materials create perceived value divorced from measurable performance. ------------- DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs" |
Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 8:53am
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Was on a tour at a boutique manufacturer a few years ago. Normally they sell complete systems with speakers starting at 80.000 euro's and amps alike. they supply them with porcelain stands for the cables improving the magnetic field and such. When my friend pointed out the amps -even covered in resin to obscure the innards looked almost exactly like hypex modules we were quickly escorted out.
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Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 10:59am
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These 'wooden speaker cable elevators' always make me giggle. I would want them all different heights though, so the electricity flows gently downhill by gravity from the amplifier. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225154243437?chn=ps&_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&google_free_listing_action=view_item ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 11:14am
For that price, do they supply you with your own power station as well? How can people be taken in by all this crap? It's mind boggling. ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
jbl_man wrote:Posted By: cooky1257
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 11:18am
| Box of cat litter with a loop of coat hanger inside. |
Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 12:16pm
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Reminds me of the tale a radio repair engineer visit recalled in the days when radios needed a physical aerial and earth. The owner of the radio lived in a flat and didnt have a garden. She had put the earth rod into the soil of a potted plant. ------------- Kevin North Staffordshire |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 1:49pm
At least she hadn't plugged it into the mains! Audio/sound world is odd. I had a gig a couple of weeks ago with a "Big Band" - drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, 2 x trumpets, trombone -- & 3 singers. The drummer, bassist & keyboards were ok, guitarist & wind section all over the place, but the worst were the "vocalists"! Constantly out of tune, missing notes, etc., etc. I was really embarrassed!! No way to make the mess sound any good.  Then, a few days after the gig, the promoter sends me a message saying how great the group/gig sounded & he'll definitely be contacting me again for work! Astounding. I wonder if he was actually listening, but anyway. ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: fudge22
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 6:25pm
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Whilst it is easy to scoff at products like the ones linked to, and the people that buy them, the interesting thing is that most of those that use them are convinced that they work. We are all guilty of the same thing to a certain degree. On recording forum there are people that believe some DAW sound better than others when they are proved to null out. On this forum, some members believe that one type of plywood sounds better than another, or that the original amplifier performs better than an otherwise identical but cheaper clone. It is not unknown for sound engineers to be convinced that the sound is changing when they are turning the knobs on the wrong channel, and I'm sure most monitor engineers, at some point, have simply pretended to adjust the settings, and the artist has said that it sounded better. Obviously, we defend our own, biases, prejudices, foibles, or however you want to describe how your brain perceives stuff, by either some plausible but unproven in the specific circumstance, scientific principle, or saying that measurements don't show up everything. So, why the negativity? If a product makes someone happy does the cost matter. A cheap Casio tells the time just as well as an expensive Rolex. The Rolex is to let others know how much the wearer can afford to spend on a watch. How many people on this forum do sound for a hobby, or not as their main income? How much of your income do you spend on sound equipment? Can you justify buying the expensive component when a cheap alternative would perform almost indistinguishably, and you have to save up to buy it? Do you really need to spend £350 on a 1.4" compression driver when an £85 P-Audio would work just as well? Alternatively, if you advise someone who really cant afford it, to take the more costly option, do you feel bad about it? A question for the future is: When some Chinese entrepreneur starts selling cheap, knock off bags of sand on AliExpress, will people be debating whether they sound as good as the originals?
That is just a band with a brass section. You need the brass/wind section to be in double figure to describe it as big. |
Posted By: madboffin
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 9:07pm
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Yes, it's like the art market. About 20 years ago when I was doing a lot of corporate events, I remember some Turner Prize launches. We all had a good laugh at the stuff on show. And I suspected that at least one of the artists was secretly taking the p*ss out of the whole business (while raking in millions).
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Posted By: snowflake
Date Posted: 04 December 2025 at 10:32pm
| the hi-fi stuff is nonsense but you really can hear the difference between a P-audio and a Faital HF1460 |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 05 December 2025 at 9:23am
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"That is just a band with a brass section. You need the brass/wind section to be in double figure to describe it as big." If they were all over 6' & 18 stone, does that count? And anything more than the classic 3-piece is too big for me!!  ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: cooky1257
Date Posted: 05 December 2025 at 9:51am
| Paradoxically I suppose if you can't tell the difference between an £85 P-audio comp and a demonstrably measurably better '£350 faital one these extortionately priced hifi foo tweaks aren't for you. In the case of the Entreq products people are either gullible or buying an audiophile badge that suggests they must be golden eared. I'm incline to believe the former. Phoneyopathy. |
Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 05 December 2025 at 10:44am
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Yes. Years ago I got pretty much obsessed with the classic Tannoy Golds, after hearing a couple at a friend's studio in London. He A/B'ed them against a couple of NS10's (admittedly crap, albeit "standard" in studios) & the difference was obviously chalk v. very nice (French) cheese. I eventually got myself a pair of 12" Tannoys, that served me well for years. Then, I bought a few Tannoy T12's that someone had on offer - & out of curiosity did some A/B testing against the Golds. To my surprise (to me) the T's sounded better, even though worth a lot less. The Tannoy Gold market is a bit stupid. Like a lot of the hifi stuff. It is definitely about brands & marketing BS, not reality. ------------- Earplugs Are For Wimps! |
Posted By: madboffin
Date Posted: 05 December 2025 at 2:14pm
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I used to have some Tannoys (HPD 15) in the 70's. They were good in their day but the top end always sounded a bit ragged. It's due to the inherent distortion in the compression drivers - they are nowhere near as clean as dome tweeters and dome mids. At one time I owned a pair of ATC SCM200's (installed in a studio control room) and after that, I really noticed how bad most other speakers sounded. I now use a pair of SCM20's, which I will never get rid of, but am getting too old to really appreciate them. |