Placebophile gives tour of his $300,000+ audio system.

[agentgamma]

Have you guys heard of Brilliant Pebbles?

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You place these things in your living room near your stereo, and these things are apparently meant to absorb unwanted vibrations/sound, to improve the quality of audio. Yes, they're fucking real.

[SgtTupelo]

I remember a dumb-arse placebophile in college explaining that his super-expensive cables were better than the usual reasonably-priced ones because the electrons align better in the expensive one. Me and a teacher (who happened to be an electronic-engineer among other academic things) were listening while cringing harder than it was thought to be possible. Another friend described our facial expressions as "The most hope-lost-in-humanity faces I've ever seen."

Also I tricked another placebophile into thinking that my parents' massive 30-year-old speakers were new and top-notch and expensive as shit and he kept commenting how much better music sounded on them. Then I revealed they were 30 years old and were made back when "They didn't know speakers need to cost more than a house to sound good." He went silent and NEVER again bought up this topic in conversations. :v:

[HolyCrapAWalrus]

somebody find out his address and mail him the vinyl version of Goblin
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[postmanX3]

[QUOTE=agentgamma;39932589]Have you guys heard of Brilliant Pebbles?

[t]http://www.machinadynamica.com/Brilliant_Pebbles_All.jpg[/t]

You place these things in your living room near your stereo, and these things are apparently meant to absorb unwanted vibrations/sound, to improve the quality of audio. Yes, they're fucking real.[/QUOTE]

Oh my god, they [url=http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm]really are.[/url]

Excuse me while I go collect rocks from my backyard and become filthy rich.

[striker453]

This guy is obviously rich and obviously loves his audio and vinyl and its probably his huge hobby and indulge so why can't he go and splurge?

[Photo Shop]

Wow, I should get into the business of audio equipment sales.

Also, where's his gold plated robotic record loader incased in a perfect vacuum to prevent dust particles falling on his records?

[The First 11'er]

[QUOTE=striker453;39938573]This guy is obviously rich and obviously loves his audio and vinyl and its probably his huge hobby and indulge so why can't he go and splurge?[/QUOTE]

because you could spend a lot less money not worrying about extremely insignificant details that in the long run have no effect on what you hear

you know, like charity

[Barbarian887]

cable raisers?

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[Crest]

Funny thing is, those high end cables ARE very good. The problem is you have to run them through insanely expensive oscilloscopes to even spot the difference. It does not make a difference that a human can spot.

It's similar to the HDMI argument. Monoprices HDMI cables are cheaper and do HD video fine, but the $500 monster cables ARE better and DO have a use. Those cheap cables don't have the reliable bandwidth higher end cables have. They are fine for 1080p60 or 1080p120 8bit usually though.

So while those cables he uses probably produce the same sound as something 1/10th of the price, they are different and are better quality, it just doesn't really matter to human hearing likely.

[editline]17th March 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;39924764]digital sound does, it's measured in bits, not "p" though.

that's why you got 8 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit music. that refers to the resolution and when you hear something like "44khz" or "48khz" it refers to the sampling rate.

[editline]15th March 2013[/editline]

then ya got kbps which is the compression rate.[/QUOTE]

the kbps is not really a "compression rate" really. It's the bandwidth allocated for that. Compression rate might more accurately be associated with the compression ratio like 4.5:1 or something.

Besides, I thought my post cleared it up, he's not referring literally to the resolution of the audio but the relative resolution of youtube's compression levels for particular resolutions. I think that shows how prevelant Youtube is.