Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1"

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/19/2005 at 12:23 PM Allison wrote:

>>
>>Subject: Re: Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1"
>>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>>   Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:58:15 -0600
>>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
><cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>>
>>Kevin Handy wrote:
>>
>>> Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gotta love it when the golden-eared folks apply RF transmission-line 
>>>> theory to speaker cabling.  My scepticism towards audiophile 
>>>> snake-oil comes via heredity (my late father spent 40+ years in the 
>>>> industry).
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> The snake-oil industry?
>>
>>So how many people oil their snakes?  It does seem hard to get a good
>>Hi Fi system nowdays with all the snake oil parts as you have just so
>cheap
>>stuff on the low end, and gimics on the high end. With audio nobody gives
>>any useful specs now days -- THD  is done into a dummy load never a
>>real speaker.  What about IM distortion too? PS. I listen to regular
>music;
>>classical  I find too heavy.
>
>Every time I need an amp for audio, I build one.  I have no excuse, I did 
>audio consoles and the like.  None of the chips have decent specs and 
>reasonable solid state designs with transistor or power MOSFETs are 
>not hard to cook up. 
>
>What amuses me are the systems that have a wallwart (not switch mode
>either!)
>as a PS and claim more than 10-15W of power out. I include those that have

>a PS inside that is barely a wallwart.  A typical wallwart can't provide 
>that and a real amp that can do that needs a better source of power. 
>Computer speakers are amoung the worst with the claims, most are outright 
>fraud.
>
>
>Allison