Hoffman Amplifiers Tube Amplifier Forum
Other Stuff => Other Topics => Topic started by: thermion on September 29, 2010, 01:32:52 pm
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I saw these the other day and was wondering what these devices could be doing. Many hifi builders are offering to add these in various positions in the circuit (b+ tap, inputs, etc.) as premium factory mods. There must be some demand for them...
What is your opinion?
http://www.bybeetech.com/ourtech.asp
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May be that is a fantastic thing
to me it seems like someone want to show me the moon in a well
:grin:
I'm very curious about the opinions of other friends here in the forum
Kagliostro
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When reading that article ....read it in W.C. Fields voice.......yes my little chicadee, it comes sealed in snake oil.....
Now I don't know if it's legit or not it's just my take on it......
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I saw these the other day and was wondering what these devices could be doing.
Their main purpose is to empty the pockets of people with more money than brain cells, just like all magick components and audiofool tweaks.
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From the discoverer/promoter's mouth:
"...we did not fully understand ... and to the best of my knowledge we still do not."
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1202/bybee.htm
You might also skim the 1,000+ posts in these threads:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/everything-else/13058-bybee-quantum-purifier-experience.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/everything-else/172673-bybee-quantum-purifier-measurement-analysis-11.html
IMHO: this topic has NO business in _this_ forum.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
you knwo how bad neutrinos, quarks, gulons ,and mesons ,affect the sound quality of your guitar pickups, Just imagine how they rob tone and mojo from your hand built amp.
I had this BFPR on my bench one day, the volume pot was so packed with quarks that that I had to use nearly a whole can of DeOxit to clear it out.
OH!
and I heard last week that Cern was shutting down and is being replaced with high end Bose amplifiers without quantum purification filters to act a sub atomic particle sensors, as a cost saving action.
That is so funny It cannot be real.
Ray
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As a layman who has a rudimentary understanding of physics I have to say I am skeptical.
Rearranging matter on a molecular level is a time consuming and expensive endeavor. So even if these do exist the cost would not in in the hundreds but hundreds of thousands of dollars. I mean they are just figuring out what to do with buckyballs and how long did it take to figure out what to do with super conductivity, I think that's what they use for maglev trains.
The ear hears what it wants to sometimes as does all your senses, proven fact. When I talk about the different caps in an amp for instance I talk more about how the guitar and amp responds to my playing first so it's totally a feel thing first and foremost. And I must add before I did my test I was skeptical and thought it was BS, until I tested all those caps. But this just goes beyond anything anybody can substantiate or test really so they can say what they want to.
But I will say this, since my cable company went to fiber optics and all digital the sound and picture quality have gone DOWN not gotten better. Same for the TVs themselves, even though it cost 3 grand for the POS. I drove around the guys in the 1980s who had to fix all the fiber optics connections that were done wrong. It ran from New Jersey to all the tunnels and bridges to the Dish center here on Staten Island, to the World Trade Center, empire state building, to Brooklyn and beyond.
Looking at the items themselves it looks like someone made them in their basement. When you start talking about Quantum physics and electricity/electronics it rules out your basement unless you are Tesla himself or the second coming.... :laugh:.
Some of the the sound of an instrument is noise. Part of what makes a Stratocaster what it is tone wise is the noise of those single coil pickups. People who have tried to eliminate the noise of those guitars have also eliminated the tone. Music is partly made up of noise.
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If they'd throw in a sixpack of electrons I might would try it. :grin:
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"Part of what makes a Stratocaster what it is tone wise is the noise of those single coil pickups. People who have tried to eliminate the noise of those guitars have also eliminated the tone. "
Couldn't agree more. And it's not like you are herding cats trying to get the electrons to move down the wire. IMHO, even the fancy teflon wire--which is oh so forgiving for the novice solder jockeys--can make the tones in these toob amps a little too clean and sterile. Especially if you use the wire with the red insulation... :laugh: Regards.
dennis
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Especially if you use the wire with the red insulation... :laugh: Regards.
:laugh: it's "warmer".
There have been a few cork-sniffy posts here recently, and every time I read one I think of these guys:
My favourite part is where one guy swears he can hear a change when his mains power drops one volt.
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IMHO: this topic has NO business in _this_ forum.
Sorry to offend sensibilities. No disrespect intended, sire.
Thanks, everyone, for your insightful comments.
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the thing that really pisses me off: why did I think of it first. I gotta come up with a snake oil gimmick and market the heck out of it. I gotta get rich somehow...