Comments on: Balderdash of the day http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: SouthP http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-561 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:30:34 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-561 Are you a dope? Are you a dope?

]]> by: Ice8205 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-524 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:00:41 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-524 Dan can't have snapped. He snapped years ago.... :P Dan can’t have snapped. He snapped years ago…. :P

]]> by: phrantic http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-517 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:17:20 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-517 After reading that blog post, I thought "It's finally happened. Dan Rutter has snapped. Lost his marbles. Gone completely bonkers." After reading that blog post, I thought “It’s finally happened. Dan Rutter has snapped. Lost his marbles. Gone completely bonkers.”

]]> by: Kynetx http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-512 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:47:03 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-512 When you aren't constrained by such triviality as "the scientific method" and "peer review" or perhaps "double-blind testing", you are free to quantify such measurements as <i>musicality, airyness, presence, color, emotion</i> and <i>saturation</i>. The irony of this is that they use scientific nomenclature, often invoking terms to describe quantum phenomena. I guess I would get less outraged over it if they would at least come up with their own units of measurement and leave real ones alone. "This cable has only 50 microwhangers of emotional resistance, whereas the non fishoilonium-plated models have 600 or more." I remember when Monster Cable was just gaining momentum here in the states. Someone tried to sell me a gold-plated coax cable that was $75.00. When I mentioned that a one is a one and a zero is a zero regardless of whether or not the cable is plated with some exotic metal he grumbled something about clock drift and walked away. My personal favorite is the gold-plated power cable(you have me calling them "kettle leads", thank you) where they claim that power grid noise is reduced. Sure, it may be a better cable by some measurable standard, but the rest of the wiring in that 100-year old house is a knob-and-tube nightmare. When you aren’t constrained by such triviality as “the scientific method” and “peer review” or perhaps “double-blind testing”, you are free to quantify such measurements as musicality, airyness, presence, color, emotion and saturation. The irony of this is that they use scientific nomenclature, often invoking terms to describe quantum phenomena. I guess I would get less outraged over it if they would at least come up with their own units of measurement and leave real ones alone. “This cable has only 50 microwhangers of emotional resistance, whereas the non fishoilonium-plated models have 600 or more.”
I remember when Monster Cable was just gaining momentum here in the states. Someone tried to sell me a gold-plated coax cable that was $75.00. When I mentioned that a one is a one and a zero is a zero regardless of whether or not the cable is plated with some exotic metal he grumbled something about clock drift and walked away.
My personal favorite is the gold-plated power cable(you have me calling them “kettle leads”, thank you) where they claim that power grid noise is reduced. Sure, it may be a better cable by some measurable standard, but the rest of the wiring in that 100-year old house is a knob-and-tube nightmare.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-509 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:22:40 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-509 Yeah - and they make clear that the sciencey ways in which their cables are better include "capacitance, inductance and speed". You don't want much capacitance or inductance in any signal or speaker cable, but good news, everyone: You have to try pretty hard to <i>get</i> such problems. And as for "speed" - do they mean electrical propagation speed? That's about two thirds of the speed of light for bell wire, and about two thirds of the speed of light for $2000 snake oil cables, too. Yeah - and they make clear that the sciencey ways in which their cables are better include “capacitance, inductance and speed”.

You don’t want much capacitance or inductance in any signal or speaker cable, but good news, everyone: You have to try pretty hard to get such problems.

And as for “speed” - do they mean electrical propagation speed? That’s about two thirds of the speed of light for bell wire, and about two thirds of the speed of light for $2000 snake oil cables, too.

]]> by: reyalp http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-508 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:32:00 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/25/balderdash-of-the-day/#comment-508 Nordost explains this is Science not Voodoo! http://www.nordost.com/Why%20Nordost/science-not-voodoo.htm Glad they cleared that up ;) Nordost explains this is Science not Voodoo! http://www.nordost.com/Why%20Nordost/science-not-voodoo.htm

Glad they cleared that up ;)

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