There are many items for sale openly in the market place that make all sorts of spurious pseudo-scientific claims, including but not limited to: washing powders, detergents, shampoos, sports drinks, cars, politcal & social economics systems and self-help books. Audiophile gear is a slightly obvious example, due to the extreme cost-of-production / sale-price ratio, but no worse than Gatorade claiming that a salty drink full of colouring will 'improve your performance' or that 'aloe vera' is inherently better for your hair/skin/eyes/tonsils than, er, anything else (strong acids, alkalis & posions excluded, of course).

If anything, audiophile gear looks to be an excellent method of seperating complete fools from the cash they would otherwise spend on someone else's audiophile tat. The advantage is that I can put the money can to better use; such as buying a house, or more Lego.

As for Dan occasionally criticising my fine platinum-class audiophile products (as used by DARPA, NASA, SPECTRE, KAOS & Nasti-Person), I'm pretty certain no true audiophile would pollute their nano-forged duplex-modulation iridium-doped-bromide aircraft-grade UV-optical organic-aluminium interconnects with Dan's site; you could get bit rot in the cables, and you know what that does to the upper-register frequencies!

In short, yes, I could sleep very soundly at night making and selling audiophile gear; I would just need the motivation to actually do it. The last bit is actually the biggest hurdle in the scheme; just like art, you must get noticed first (collect underpants), then build up some whuffie in your chosen field (...) , finally sit back and rake in cash (profit!).

Heh. I reckon it'd be worth it...imagine how Dan's contributions would pull your Google pagerank up. :D

Plus I'd have to put up with Dan skewering me with rapier commentary from time to time.

I first found this site years ago due to a scam article, and they are still as entertaining and saddening as they were then :X