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dogcow
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Registered: Apr 2005
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audiophile heaven

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OPUS MM Speaker Cables
Apparently, "OPUS MM unleashes thrilling levels of performance...". That may well be so, but OPUS MM also unleashes thrilling amounts of cash from your obviously overfull audiophile wallet. Your shiny new speaker cable will set you back a truly outstanding $30,750.00. I'll say that again: thirty thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and no cents.
Cheers to Ramon Hernandez for sending me a link to this. Top work.

and if there's nothing you want more than that cable, go to this page for further high quality audiophile products.

and i'll quote this one too because i've actually heard of this most excellent tweak.

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AUDIOPRISM CD STOP LIGHT PEN
The most requested tweak of them all. A certain Jesse Morris emailed me with the name of the thing, so I no longer have an excuse for not putting it in.
This is the legendary 'CD Pen' - you're supposed to colour in the edges of your CDs with it.
That's what your supposed to do.
I have this mental image of middle-aged men, with beards and tank-tops, really carefully colouring in the sides of all their CDs. One after another. For hours on end. Then I imagine the hollow feeling they must get when they listen to their carefully prepared disks, only to find they sound exactly the same as they did before.
And now their hands are covered in ink.
And they're $20 poorer.

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You know those wires are great by just looking at the price. No one would ever charge a ridiculous price for a gimmick.

And Stereophile has been a joke for two decades.

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Those of us who claim superhuman hearing, the kind that can determine the frequency of a hummingbird's wings by sound alone, I call audiophools.

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ignorami ginormi

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I love to listen to good music on a good system. I like to listen to music that sounds musical and that is played through a system that isn't tiring to listen to. To that extent I call myself an audiophile.

The best system I've ever listened to included a homebuilt pair of Lynn Olsen's Ariels, a homebrew tube amp and tube pre-amp, a home-modded Sony SACD player, and interconnects made from CAT5 cable bought at Home Depot. All in all it cost about $3000.

The "measurements" on this system were pretty awful. The amplifier alone had 100 times more THD than an average "audiophile" amp, but certainly sounded very smooth and pleasing.

All I know is that this system played jazz and electric blues that sounded like the band was right there in front of you. That's all that matters to me.

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