Unbelievable tripe

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. 

jbl_man wrote: 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

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.

Edited by kedwardsleisure - 04 December 2025 at 12:16pm

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?

I had a gig a couple of weeks ago with a "Big Band" - drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, 2 x trumpets, trombone -- & 3 singers

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.

the hi-fi stuff is nonsense but you really can hear the difference between a P-audio and a Faital HF1460

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.

Edited by cooky1257 - 05 December 2025 at 9:54am