Sep 27, 2007 05:12 pm breaking in cables???? Is there such a thing?
What the hell is this?
Posted on Sep 27, 2007 05:05 pm
Herb Utsmelz
Ne'er ate 'er
Member Since: Apr 05, 2006
I'm guessing that this is right up there with the "hard drive balancer" and using a green magic marker to make your CDs sound better...
And for only $249!
www.hagtech.com/frybaby.html
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Sep 27, 2007 05:12 pm breaking in cables???? Is there such a thing?
Sep 27, 2007 05:22 pm Sure, but I don't need to spend a quarter grand to know that I have a bad patch cord. The "breaking in and conditioning" part was what really got me. For that kind of scratch, it had better trace the problem and fix it.
Sep 27, 2007 05:32 pm well... you know... you have to get the directionality going... so the electrons are in phase... otherwise the curves are all bad... because the internal stability diminishes inversely to the tangent...
of course this is assuming you already have your speakers decoupled by floating them in a pool of mercury... because simply having a speaker stand foundation on bedrock does not remove LF noise caused by global plate tectonics...
Sep 27, 2007 05:38 pm Quote:
This scientifically designed waveform comprises a wideband gaussian noise source that is amplitude modulated by a low frequency swept triangle wave, thus providing complete audio (and then some) bandwidth burn without any fixed frequency components. Both magnetic and electric fields are employed during the burn-in process via current and voltage mode operation, thereby providing maximal conditioning.
For an added laugh, read the third customer testimonial.
Sep 27, 2007 05:43 pm Haha BH, I misinterpreted your post. I thought you meant broken cables.
Sep 27, 2007 06:40 pm It's a cable whisperer!
Sep 27, 2007 09:05 pm It is a pile of dung and the innocent can not abideth therewith. Have ye not, amongst the days of thy traverse, owned, no, used to all ends, devices such that they and these are of one kind? I say not.
Verily I do protest, not ye, nor your wife, nor your sons and daughters have ever seen such as this, thus being the need not to have it. Therein lyeth the answer to the question not asked.
It is a cartload of dung, and it stinketh. All things that spring up from this evil are as he is. Dung.
Sep 28, 2007 07:34 am Seeee, El-Toro-PoPo!
Sep 28, 2007 07:37 am Interesting, I didn't realize after all these years, I have never properly burned in my cables and jacks and stuff...
Learn something new every day...
"burning" XLR cables is something I have never done on purpose.
Sep 28, 2007 07:51 am That means that most of my ten-year old cables are now just about ready to use. No wonder I sound so much better lately!
Sep 28, 2007 07:53 am I can just hear Nigel of Spinal Tap going on and on, singing the praises of the FryBaby. Except his, of course, goes to "11".
Sep 28, 2007 09:28 am Hey, I have a whole bunch of "vintage" cables. This would mean that they are already conditioned and I could get top dollar for them. Who wants to make the first offer?
Sep 28, 2007 09:40 am I have a bunch of cables that have undergone 'special processing' too... ok ok ok... I accidentally spilled battery acid on them... :P
Sep 28, 2007 10:16 am Well everybody knows that stage cables don't really sound worth a damn until at least twenty years of cigarette smoke have been applied. In addition, a few spilled shots of schnapps make the connectors easier to grip.
Sep 28, 2007 10:26 am Man, while cleaning the basement I just threw away my retirement! I had no idea the value of those things.
Sheesh, all I have now are these stupid baseball cards from the 60's and 70's...
Sep 28, 2007 10:57 am Baseball cards also benefit from burn-in. A couple of hours in the oven was the traditional way to do it, until I (just now) developed the FryBall Baseball Card Burner-Inner (tm). By aligning the Beta waves emitted by the pigment in the paint embedded in the cardboard of the cards, it actually enhances color, clarity, and the overall value of your collector's cards.
PM me for ordering/billing details.
Sep 28, 2007 02:06 pm Doesn't the green marker trick work on baseball cards too?
Sep 28, 2007 02:16 pm Shhhh! You're cutting into my profit margin!
Sep 29, 2007 02:58 pm I now know why my vinyl has never sounded good. I don't have one of those $400 The Ripper or $1249 Archiver thingy ma bobs.
OH ya, and maybe on of them UFO jobs for $400 as well.
Sep 29, 2007 03:44 pm after googleing the UFO I found that a company is selling DIY kits without parts so you can select your own components... thats brilliant!
Sep 29, 2007 11:10 pm Ya, I think most audiophiles that have spendy turntables all ready have a strobe function built into them. I know both of mine use an internal strobe for timing. And I'm not so sure I want a 2 pound piece of stuff sitting on my platter while I play my vinyl.
Sep 29, 2007 11:39 pm I have a $100 RCA turntable from Radio Shack that does a great job. Noize, check your email. I just sent you and dB a great cut from an album I found this morning. You'll like it.
Sep 29, 2007 11:57 pm Quote:
Completely new circuitry generates the same complex waveform of the original FryKleaner, all in analog!
...later...
Quote:
FryBaby is designed to condition and break-in interconnects, speaker cables, power cords, digital and video cables, or any type of wire used in an audio system.
how the heck can you break into a digital signal with a 'complex analog waveform'?
ok upon a re-read of the site, i think i'm understanding that this thing is is like oiling up a baseball glove and punching it over and over....
i've never heard of cables that needed any kind of 'break in period' before they start to perform optimally. who the heck buys this crap?
Sep 29, 2007 11:57 pm Got it, will listen in the morning as I'm gonna try and get a couple hours shut eye before my shift starts on popa watch.
Sep 29, 2007 11:58 pm lol i think ya got the wrong thread dude...get some rest bro!
oh yeah jinks for simul-posting with me....you can't post anymore, and if you do, you're gay. ยง=oP
i've got to post your name 3 times before you can post again.
Sep 30, 2007 12:05 am OK, I couldn't wait.
Dude, you just got a big huge smile on me. I love it. That stuff just makes me smile. Tuna is gonna rock this.
WYD, if you look at Herbs post you will see I am replying to his mention of an email he sent.
But agreed, who buys this stuff? Someone that thinks that spending insane amounts of money on stupid things will make them better. And they truly believe they can hear the difference.
Sep 30, 2007 12:07 am haha turns out i'm the one who needs sleep!!!
glad to make ya smile though!
Sep 30, 2007 12:10 am LMAO at this customer testimony!!!
Quote:
I have another question regarding the FryBaby CD that I burned with the file you sent me. Now that I burned in my CD player with the disc for 2.5 days or so, the sound is much better and much smoother. The problem is, my player is a CD/SACD player, and I was only able to burn-in the redbook CD circuitry, so now the redbook CDs sound smoother and warmer than the SACDs, which is good in one way, but rather upsetting in another (I guess I never realized how bad everything sounded prior to burn-in)...
Oct 02, 2007 05:48 pm I've got some GREAT Magic Beans here that you guys can have cheap...email me if you want em!
Oct 02, 2007 05:52 pm There is a site out there somewhere (can't remember the name) that is selling wooden knobs for your amp that increases clarity... or something like that. Same guys that sell $1000 cables etc.
Oct 02, 2007 06:00 pm Yeah, I saw that too, some people are crazy man...there wouldnt be a market for this stuff if people didnt buy it, you know?
Oct 05, 2007 11:55 am Attention cable snobs: Here's your chance to win $1,000,000 US!!!
science.slashdot.org/arti...7/10/04/1354224
Oct 05, 2007 12:14 pm Oh man there are some great quotes in the comments at the bottom of that page...
[quote]
If you sell an idiot $5 cables, you only get $5 from him.
If you sell an idiot $7,000 cable, you get $7000 from him.
This proves that $7,000 cables are superior to $5 cables.
Where is my million?
[/quote]
Oct 05, 2007 12:26 pm I think one of the biggest cons every perpetrated on wanna-be audiophiles is the "gold connectors" theory...
Oct 05, 2007 10:17 pm The only thing gold connectors do for you is prevent eventual corrosion. But if you take care of your gear even standard nickel connection's will avoid corrosion.
Lame is all I can say.
Oct 25, 2007 03:59 am I too have a new product out. It's a hyperthalilimitation transduction endoscopy transverser. It initiates the 88 mph needed to fuel the flux capacitor that currently runs diversionary rhetorics towards pointless cash magnetizing schemes carried out by money hungry companies. I call it the McFly for short.
If you're a true audiophile and patron, you'll buy it along with a nice pair or Pear speaker cables.
Package deal only 287,908,302.99$
Reading this forum has made me realize two things:
1) People will buy anything so long as there's a hint of 'prestige' involved,
B) I need to invent something with 'prestige' involved.
Oct 25, 2007 08:25 am i'll try not to take offense to that...because i always buy things that have a sort of 'lack' of "prestige".
Oct 25, 2007 09:23 pm Keith, I think you might be right. I relate all this to the little big man syndrome.
They over compensate for size issues with big expensive toys.
Oct 26, 2007 07:28 am Napoleon complex; & it doesn't apply to everyone- just people with small mindsets and money to burn.
As you've seen above, I can articulate myself in a manner which confuses with words, which is often misconceived as confidence in an otherwise useless product. I could sell pancakes to a steamroller. lol.
Oct 28, 2007 07:45 pm My father was a furniture salesman for Sears for almost 40 years and then for some local outfit for another 6 or 7.
He was one of those guys that could sell you your own underwear...
While you were still wearing them.
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