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Yikes! .....A $700 Power Bar!

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D from BC

Jan 1, 1970
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http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360241208714

$620.00 + $80.00 US

Handcrafted!

'Internally built-in with Amp Audio Grade RF, noise filter to attenuate
noises, RF associated with city mains. Casing constructed of thick high
quality Copper plates for mass, unit stability and efficient air born
harmful RF absorption. Provided with Rhodium plated Furutech IEC socket
and National 24K Gold Plated Audio grade AG sockets. The contacts being
modified, polished to increase contact area in order to improve
reliability and reduce noises. Units individually handcrafted to
exacting professional standards'

Should it be a crime to sell stuff like this?
 
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Abbey Somebody

Jan 1, 1970
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http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360241208714

$620.00 + $80.00 US

Handcrafted!

'Internally built-in with Amp Audio Grade RF, noise filter to attenuate
noises, RF associated with city mains. Casing constructed of thick high
quality Copper plates for mass, unit stability and efficient air born
harmful RF absorption. Provided with Rhodium plated Furutech IEC socket
and National 24K Gold Plated Audio grade AG sockets. The contacts being
modified, polished to increase contact area in order to improve
reliability and reduce noises. Units individually handcrafted to
exacting professional standards'

Should it be a crime to sell stuff like this?



Wow... There is a sucker born every minute.. Anyone that would pay that
for it.

I saw a PC sound bar thing at the store today. It looked cheap, and
weighed little, and was like $35! No way would I buy some cheap, model
care looking thing.

I bought the heavy, shielded, amplified, $20 El Cheapo "Cyber Acoustics"
pair, and they are pretty good for my MAME, XBMC OmegaBox.

All the "Creative" and "Logitech",etc stuff was all way overpriced as
far as I am concerned. Though their top line stuff is good, by that point
I would piece together my own stuff.

For the OmegaRevo,The $20 3 Lb each audio paperweights are nice 2-way
jobs and they are amplified too. Amazing how far the world has come, and
what $20 will get one.

So, yours is a power bar, and mine is an audio bar, but I wouldn't buy
the one I saw. Anyway, That's what it made me think of.
 
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D from BC

Jan 1, 1970
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No.. a crime on the buyer's pocketbook.
BTW:
"Verison"??

Ha!
It's the
'
Isoclean 105F II - 4 Position Space Saving Verison w/ 15 Amp Audio Grade
Noise Filter'

A powerbar that removes everything but typos!
 
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Hammy

Jan 1, 1970
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http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360241208714

$620.00 + $80.00 US

Handcrafted!

'Internally built-in with Amp Audio Grade RF, noise filter to attenuate
noises, RF associated with city mains. Casing constructed of thick high
quality Copper plates for mass, unit stability and efficient air born
harmful RF absorption. Provided with Rhodium plated Furutech IEC socket
and National 24K Gold Plated Audio grade AG sockets. The contacts being
modified, polished to increase contact area in order to improve
reliability and reduce noises. Units individually handcrafted to
exacting professional standards'

What a joke!

Take it apart and its probably just a 20mm MOV and a cheap CMC.

It does have a nice shiny base plate though.;-)
Should it be a crime to sell stuff like this?

No.
Anybody who buys it should be Psychologically evaluated though.

Audiophiles are a strange breed.
 
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BarnCat

Jan 1, 1970
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What a joke!

Take it apart and its probably just a 20mm MOV and a cheap CMC.

It does have a nice shiny base plate though.;-)


No.
Anybody who buys it should be Psychologically evaluated though.

Audiophiles are a strange breed.


Electronics is 'magic' to them, and they know how to do it so much
better than us.

We couldn't possibly know what the bBarnum and Bailey factor is in this
industry.

Naaahhh... not us.

Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I should make audiophool gear. The profit margins have to be huge. The
shame is that the volume can't be that high. There just cannot be that
many stupid people out there. Wait! Sure there can! Look at the huge
number of idiots that come here!
 
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pimpom

Jan 1, 1970
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BarnCat said:
Electronics is 'magic' to them, and they know how to do it so
much
better than us.

We couldn't possibly know what the bBarnum and Bailey factor
is in
this industry.

Naaahhh... not us.

Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I should make audiophool gear. The profit margins have to be
huge.
The shame is that the volume can't be that high. There just
cannot
be that many stupid people out there. Wait! Sure there can!
Look at
the huge number of idiots that come here!

Look at some of his previous sales: A single "Audio Grade" fuse
for $27 + $10 shipping, a 1.8m power cable for $288+35.........
We're all in the wrong business!
 
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Hammy

Jan 1, 1970
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Look at some of his previous sales: A single "Audio Grade" fuse
for $27 + $10 shipping, a 1.8m power cable for $288+35.........
We're all in the wrong business!
Actually the most lucrative is residential renovations. I was in home
depot the other day and the lady and her husband in front of me were
given a quote for $13,000 just for labor on a 900 sq/ft hardwood
install and a 750 sq/ft ceramic tile install.

I did my own hardwood in the living room and ceramic in the kitchen
about the same dimension it was about 5k are so including some
speciality tool rentals. No it wasn't cheap shit it was quality
Armstrong hardwood. I just knew the employee selling it and got it at
a little above cost.

I was tempted to say I would do it for 5k plus materials and
rentals.:)
 
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D from BC

Jan 1, 1970
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There's the giveaway, Apart from the spelling mistake, no engineer would
ever write that.

I suppose that's for those that can't grasp EM physics and need the air
pollution analogy.
 
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Fred Abse

Jan 1, 1970
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Right. An engineer would write:

"ether-borne" ;)

An engineer certainly wouldn't.

Michelson and Morley dispelled the ether myth about a hundred years ago,
 
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Archimedes' Lever

Jan 1, 1970
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It looks like it has four leveling screws on the baseplate, to keep
the electrons from pooling up in one corner. That's important to
granular soundstaging and inner macrodynamics.

John

You have to rent a Coriolis meter so you can compensate for the final
placement orientation, if it isn't directly aligned.
 
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pimpom

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
It looks like it has four leveling screws on the baseplate, to
keep
the electrons from pooling up in one corner. That's important
to
granular soundstaging and inner macrodynamics.

True. And I hope they put in acoustic damping on the inside.
Otherwise noise currents will cause the filter components to
vibrate and send the vibrations as surface waves along the copper
surface to the other end, inducing microphonics on the power
line. The problem is exacerbated by transition phase shifts at
the Cu-Rh-Cu interfaces.
 
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DarkMatter

Jan 1, 1970
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Michelson and Morley dispelled the ether myth about a hundred years ago,

Yet it lingers. Not quite as dispelled as you might like to claim.
 
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D from BC

Jan 1, 1970
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It looks like it has four leveling screws on the baseplate, to keep
the electrons from pooling up in one corner. That's important to
granular soundstaging and inner macrodynamics.

John

It should come with a earwax removal kit for better sounding highs :p
Here's a scary chunk that'll certainly cause fidelity problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cerumen.jpg

However...
'In 2008 new guidelines were issued by the American Academy of
Otolaryngology discouraging earwax removal unless excess earwax is
causing health problems.[21]'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwax
 
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