Audio Quest servicing the needs of the stupid :D

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 9 Feb 2015 at 08:54

MP3's not giving you the quality you hoped for? Don't worry Audio Quest is here to take your money.

Link HERE

Giving what the advertise is clearly utter nonsense how the hell do they get away with it?

wonko · 9 Feb 2015 at 16:52

It's amazing isn't it.
Unfortunately I won't be able to afford one for a while as I'm going to have to change all of the disks in my server http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm

Broken Hope · 9 Feb 2015 at 20:51

There's people on this forum that have spent over £100 on a USB cable for their DAC so still plenty of people that have more money than sense.

Marsman · 9 Feb 2015 at 21:35

We've been here before, and we will be again.

Thread will go the same way as they all do, until it gets forgotten about and then someone else stumbles upon ridiculously overpriced cables, then creates a thread saying how ridiculously overpriced the cables are.

oli collett · 9 Feb 2015 at 21:42

I bought one and heard a difference and shut my eyes so it wasn't placebo

If it doesn't work then why don't you prove it

If you can't hear a difference then clearly it's your ears/equipment

This product might be ridiculous but some of their other products are great

You can't criticise this product until you've heard it for yourself

And so on

TheVoice · 9 Feb 2015 at 23:23

wonko said:
It's amazing isn't it.
Unfortunately I won't be able to afford one for a while as I'm going to have to change all of the disks in my server http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm

Oh wow.

That hint of glaze on QNAP1 also showed an impaired subjective noise floor elsewhere. In hi-ﬁ parlance, QNAP2 had the blacker silences and deeper spaces between notes.

In our initial listening tests, I couldn't discern any tangible difference in sound between the two hard drives. Harris thought the Hitachi sounded very ethereal, almost out of phase, and rated it lowest; the Seagate was sharper with a more thumpy bass, slightly brighter with a slight tendency to sibilance.

In a quick personal ranking to date, covering all these tests, my notes put the Kingston SSD's sound quality first

novaenough · 9 Feb 2015 at 23:37

I thought I only had to be embarrassed about my lack of heavily over clocked and water cooled computer, now I need to be concerned about the lack of musicality of my hard drives too..... its been a tough Monday :confused:

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 10 Feb 2015 at 13:22

Marsman said:
We've been here before, and we will be again.

Thread will go the same way as they all do, until it gets forgotten about and then someone else stumbles upon ridiculously overpriced cables, then creates a thread saying how ridiculously overpriced the cables are.

We have been here before, as I have on other forums. My question has always been how do they get away with it? Their claims/advertising is clearly complete bs. There is no argument to the contrary and yet they keep on producing these ridiculous products.

lucid · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:31

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
We have been here before, as I have on other forums. My question has always been how do they get away with it? Their claims/advertising is clearly complete bs. There is no argument to the contrary and yet they keep on producing these ridiculous products.

1) they "get away with it" because they can

2) because selling just one or two gives pretty massive returns on the investment for the manufacturer/distributor/reseller chain

3) what does it matter to you anyway. You're not going to buy one, so why worry?

Flying_Hellfish · 10 Feb 2015 at 14:51

Read the comments on el Reg yesterday. Very funny indeed.

Someone linked to a What Hi-Fi tumblr site, which was equally hilarious. Basically collating the more insane snippets from the mag/website. I can't link because the profile blurb contains a swear.

oli collett · 10 Feb 2015 at 18:42

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
We have been here before, as I have on other forums. My question has always been how do they get away with it? Their claims/advertising is clearly complete bs. There is no argument to the contrary and yet they keep on producing these ridiculous products.

They don't make any specific, quantifiable claims. Hi-Fi gear never does, because it can't be backed up with evidence. Russ andrews did try making various implausible claims a few years back and got shot down by the ASA