@imstillatwork: The 'Kuei Yang Wang' guy sounds like a total stud:
"I agree that in High End audio both pricing and physics are being streched beyound sensible limits, not only in the accesories industry, but also by the equipment manufacturers. However, to go and in effect say: 'It's all bunk because I cannot immediatly understand it from 19th century physics (which is about the level thaught in schools and universities until very recently or still) and because it costs a lot of money!' illustrates my point of monetary and moral affordability.
You are REALLY saying: I would have to pay a lot of money and/or I'd have to change a system of fundamental belief (namely "I don't beleive xxxxxx makes a difference") neither of which I can afford, so I'll just diss the stuff and talk it down, which makes me feel good about myself (after all I'm exposing charlatans) , makes me feel good about me not being able to afford those toys and really smug about those idiots who buy the stuff which CANNOT work anyway.
This is exactly the same principle and approach underlying in most (not all, but most) cases the "objectivist" position and is the direct root of what I call "DBT Conspiracy" (eg. Dum Bass Noisaine, the buch of guys at the SWWTMS [or something like that] and the "Audio" bunch).
I agree that an equally questionable psychological process happens within the subjectivist group, here TOO MUCH is taken at face value and yes, too much is believed.
I guess as an openminded Humean (after David Hume) who takes nothing on credence or not but prefers to investigate empirically I am sort of in the middle between the trenchfight between the equally deeply entrenched subjectivists and objectivists.
I guess that makes me a SOBjectivist... Oh well. I can live with that, especially as I have often been called a "SOB hard as nails", so I guess the cap fits.... Sayonara"
@madlogik: I'm no physician, but won't those pins get all the vibration ? can anyone explain how vibration would go through this contraption?
I believe I am confusing the mass of the object (the absence thereof because of those levitating magnets) and vibration (or the lack thereof thanks to those magnets) ... and the fact that I still see those 2 pins that seems to keep the thing from moving? if so... wouldn't they transfer all the vibrations to the upper deck anyways???
@madlogik: Depends on how they are fixed to the plates...
If they are there just to keep the plates from getting appart, it'd at least have less a vibration transfer than if it was to support one plate on top of the other...Reply
It takes some serious balls to sell magic magnetic stereo floaters. But to do so with a front page image of pulling fabric in front of a manikin's head?
Excuse me while I clean the coffee from my nasal cavity.Reply
I remember as a kid I would put a record on my parents turntable and if I cranked the bass to the maximum I could get the needle to bounce and skip a few grooves back. If you got it just right you could get it to keep skipping back at the same spot forever.
Obviously my parents were mad, if I had been a bit more clever I could have built one of these with $10 in materials to make it up to them and eliminate the problem forever.Reply
Floating the shelf on magnets will not remove vibrations, if you apply a force vertically it will still move. In fact, because they system has less dampening than your usual cushioning, I would imagine vibrations will persist even longer.Reply
@Tim Gee: If I wanted to remove vibrations, in fact, I might tend to go the other way and strongly couple it to a very heavy object. Like a planet.Reply
@AmphetamineCrown: Yes, but where are we going to find a planet Mr. Smartguy? Hmm? Hmm? Don't have an answer for that do you? No, I didn't think so.Reply
That's the great thing about making a selling a production for twenty times what it cost you to make. You don't need to fool as many people to get rich.Reply
when should we tell the audiophiles that, no i dont hear any difference, and remeber that quantum box you bought( [gizmodo.com] ) yeah i just thought it looked coolReply
Years ago, talking mid 90's here, I had an AV system-in-a-cabinet made by Sony. It actually had a magnetically suspended shelf for the DVD/CD player. I think it was to isolate it from vibrations because the player itself sucked to much on its own.Reply
or you could, you know, put down a vibration dampening rubber mat... for $10... and experience the same level of non existent improvement in sound quality.
i swear, one could sell gold plated q-tips to audiophiles.Reply
@nutbastard: You have gold plated Q-Tips? I've been looking for those. My eardrums aren't conducting sound in the most efficient way possible, and my regular copper Q-Tips aren't quite cutting it. Are they shielded?Reply
If I were an audiophile with serious anal-retentive tendencies, I would be SERIOUSLY concerned that those magnets would cause field fluctuations in the toroid transformers of the amp.
(J/K...I want to be an audiophile consultant. I want a piece of this pie)Reply
It makes perfect sense, just like the magnetic bracelets that prevent Lyme disease, reduces fatigue, cure cancer, soften stool and teaches you learn foreign languages in your sleep.
At least that's what my dipshit neighbor thinks. (He loaned me a tape.)Reply
@I'm@work,shhhhh.: indeed, i didnt want to cry foul only to find i was ludicrously ill informed, my it seems you are fearless and courageous. you made this internet your bitch.Reply
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