EEVblog #29 - Audiophile Audiophoolery

Dave cuts loose on the Golden Ear Audiophiles and all their Audiophoolery snake oil rubbish.
Directional cables, thousand dollar IEC power cables, and all that rubbish.
Monster Cable gets mostered.
Panasonic gets a serve too, or is that applause?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• audophile
• audiophool
• fool
• fake
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• ear
• monster
• cable
• cardas
• speaker
• hdmi
• coax
• rca
• sound
• listen
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• quality
• directional
• audio
• stereo
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• power
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• end
• distortion

[QuarlMusic]

He has an upward slope in the pitch in his voice that heads towards the end of every sentence. On that note, I realized about halfway through the video that I didn't hear a single word he said because I was too busy listening to the melody he was creating with his sing song voice...

[EEVblog]

@QuarlMusic It's called a High Rising Terminal. Google it.

[Ephabia]

It works the same way Homeopathy does, some small sliver of truth buried under a mountain of bullshit. Any actual work is done by the brain, cognitive dissonance is an insanely powerful thing.

[EEVblog]

@Ephabia Indeed.

[colonelerotic]

Engineers: 1

Audiophools: 0

[myhannahdotcom]

interesting video

[weskoki]

Power cables makes difference.I would not spend more than 100 but they do work.

[zaraak323i]

@ingiethingie As a musician, this is exactly what I was thinking of reading through these comments. Are these idiots going to hear something that we didn't even put into the music? A better experience than the musician who recorded it? lol

[zaraak323i]

@supertruckertom I think you hold your breath when you listen for the difference in sound!

[fenclu]

In Poland, about 30 years ago we had this company called Unitra. It was probably the only electronic company in Poland. They made GREAT hi-fi stuff. Even today you can buy a used Unitra amp for 100$ that sounds much better than some of new Sony, Denon or other shit.

[ve2zzz]

MOST audiophile valve amplifiers use valves which are heavily overloaded...

Result: The tortured valves have to be replaced regularly... Maybe a good sound, but AWFUL design !!!!!

At least, transistors/MOSFETS have to be treated with respect if you don't want them to blow instantly !!!!

Transistor - 1

tube - 0

[Riskteven]

OOOh! How fun it would be to be able to sneak in on such a store at night, and secretly solder a _diode_ in inside the cable and hide it! When the customer buys it (for $10!), they will complain! But maybe they will just try to "wear the cable in" first!

[ingiethingie]

dave, there's a double irony with these audiofools too which you didn't get chance to rant about here :) i'm a musician, and, like ALL musicians, i don't use $1000 cable to transmit the recording my voice/guitar/keys/etc to the [prob' 1024bit in their requirements] DAC for hard disk recording... so the recording in their ears is already shafted anyway :)))

or moreso - the *more* they spend on cable, even if what they are saying is true, they simply hear more of the crap cable i recorded with :)

[teflondon91]

most idiots i have met ask me -- did you break your cables in dude?! LOL

[teflondon91]

SO MANY AUDIO DOUCHEBAGS OUT THERE... FUCK YOU TO ALL IPOD USERS.