Incredible Balls

So, I was reading around the subject of bearing ball grades, and I stumbled upon this:

http://www.symposiumusa.com/g3.html

these balls are about a $350 upgrade to a set of feet to sit under your CD player which already cost $400.

More absurdly overpriced audiophile product with supporting spurious claims welcome.

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SMH, how could that possibly improve sound quality? Their whole range of products is a complete joke!

why do you need to isolate a CD player? speakers etc yes, but a CD player, is that necessary?

Exactly; if the stream coming down the fibre into the DAC is bit-perfect, and it is for any halfway decent transport with an undamaged disc, no amount of tweakery upstream is going to make the slightest difference.

No no, even with the most perfect sound transfer, the magnetic vibrations caused by the negative ions in your lead based wall paint can severely impact the resonance of the soundstage.

I've got my Power Balance wrist band so I'm OK

$500 wooden volume knob. I also get confused by the little stands to lift cable off the floor. Hifi is a whole world of wrong.

I used to be a sucker for all this shit till I realised I was going deaf. My hifi at home still has speaker cables made of sheathed solid copper that weigh as much as the amp itself.

there appears to be an audio placebo effect. plate it gold, charge 864 times more than you should and it will sound 24.8% better. and thats a FACT, oh yes.

Putting your speakers on spiked stands makes a whole world of improvement. almost everything else is weapons-grade arse.

I would have gone with Incrediballs™ - but that's just the corporate marketing slag in me.

This subject was touched upon (oooh!!) by adoubeltap here:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread43413-2.html

Check out the list he posted:

http://www.ilikejam.org/blog/audio/audiophile.html

I need some RCA cables to hook my decks up. I should buy them from this place shouldn't I?

i iz confused. What part of a sound system uses metal ball bearings ???

i iz confused. What part of a sound system uses metal ball bearings ???

feet ! mental.

I remember back in the 80s a thorough knob who pulled his floor up and installed a marple plinth thing that touched the soil beneath, bedded on concrete presumably. On this monolith sat his record deck.
I dont think it made it sound any better.

I bet it did... to him.

"What the heck is it? Brilliant Pebbles is a unique and comprehensive system for tuning the room and audio system based on special physical properties of highly symmetrical crystal structures. Brilliant Pebbles has been evolving since its introduction 6 years ago at the London HI Fi Show, especially the number of applications, many of which were discovered by our customers. Brilliant Pebbles addresses specific resonance control and RFI/EMI absorption problems associated with audio electronics, speakers and cables, as well as acoustic wave problems associated with the listening room boundaries and the 3-dimensional space within the boundaries. Brilliant Pebbles comprises a number of precious and semi-precious stones (crystals) selected for their effectiveness. The original glass bottles for Brilliant Pebbles have been replaced by clear zip lock bags, which have a more linear response than glass. We employ a number of highly-specialized, proprietary techniques in the preparation/assembly of Brilliant Pebbles to enhance the crystals' inherent characteristics. The fundamental operating principle of Brilliant Pebbles involves a number of atomic mechanisms in the crystals."

heh.

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

OMG it's homeopathy for stereos.

Well, if it's homoeopathic at least you can just buy one of the crystals and then repeatedly cleave it into smaller and smaller fragments so that you can treat all your cables for the price of one.

Well, if it's homoeopathic at least you can just buy one of the crystals and then repeatedly cleave it into smaller and smaller fragments so that you can treat all your cables for the price of one.

good one.

It just gets better; each time you cleave the crystal in half, you double its power. So, assuming a proper nest of spaghetti at the back of your pre amp you could improve your sound quality sixteen-fold for the price of one crystal.