SILTECH TRIPLE CROWN SPEAKER CABLE  £93000 for 4m - Page 1
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author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 08:26:12 am
content: https://www.analogueseduction.net/terminated/siltech-triple-crown-speaker-cables.htmlPrices:QuoteQuoteSpecifications:NoneLeads to a brochure on a dead URLArchive.org:https://web.archive.org/web/20170304021826/http://www.siltechcables.com/uploads/files/Siltech_TC_brochure.pdfStill no specifications just a a brochure of fancy looking wiring enclosures and connectors.Pdf brochureQuoteBuzzword bullshit:musicalnuance, detail and definition astonishing accuracy,residual levels, micro-distortion, error mechanisms, masked advances, induced errors,mechanical and electrical optimization, revolutionizes the musical accuracy of audio cable,exhaustive empirical research, MONO-CRYSTAL SILVER, dimensionally optimized conductors,costly material, ultimate performance, LCR values, Teflon matrix, material continuity, revolutionarytwo-part asymmetrical design, stay ground, ultimate system optimization.Mono crystals cable... I still don't understand what it means.I see a video on the page to do with the design.Fancy looking enclosure construction around the connectors but still using a simple looking spade crimp terminal.What do you think?

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 09:35:15 am
content: Oh good, a new height in the fine art of idiocy.edit: Can you even create a monocrystaline cable that actually bends?

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 09:48:05 am
content: What I think, brilliant bullshit marketing getting money from millionaires without brains.The same target audience as the pure gold iPhones with diamonds, gold leaves hamburgers etc.If you buy a half billion $ yacht , this is peanuts

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 10:24:29 am
content: Quote from: Kjelt on January 26, 2022, 09:48:05 amYeah, and the people on the supply side are the same that design and sell fake medical devices to desperate people:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/woo-equipment-repair-ethics/

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 12:29:30 pm
content: I'm all excited about that new Sillytech Penta Crown pure Platinum Cable. Made from pure Platinum bars and featuring quantum-dot connectors plated with purified unicorn-blood.As this is their top-of-the-line product, don't expect it to be cheap. In short: If you care about pricing, this prodcut is not for you

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2022, 06:57:27 pm
content: I suppose it's marginally better that these jerks scam audiophools who have more money than sense and can afford it, rather than the life savings from little old ladies.

author: unknownparticle
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2022, 06:14:40 pm
content: I'm surprised no one has marketed 24 CT, pure gold cables yet, has to be the ulimate rich silly wanker product!

author: jm_araujo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2022, 06:24:16 pm
content: Quote from: unknownparticle on January 27, 2022, 06:14:40 pmLower profit margin than lamp cord in "fancy" heatshrink

author: Refrigerator
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2022, 12:03:52 pm
content: Quote from: unknownparticle on January 27, 2022, 06:14:40 pmIt's a lot harder to make aluminum wire look like gold allright.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2022, 10:09:36 pm
content: Quote from: Refrigerator on February 10, 2022, 12:03:52 pmActually, it's not. Anodized Aluminium is available an almost every color thinkable, including "gold".E.g. available here (not affiliated, available elsewhere, too; just as an example):https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07WHC1CZC

author: Refrigerator
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 10, 2022, 10:47:55 pm
content: Quote from: Haenk on February 10, 2022, 10:09:36 pmOh wow i didn't know

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2022, 12:17:27 am
content: Anodizing is a common industrial chemical or electrochemical process to passivate metals, including aluminum, by building up an oxide layer, thereby inhibiting corrosion. Dyes can be incorporated into the process to produce a wide range of colors.If you are dealing with an anodized surface in an electrical system, it is important to "break" the anodizing when making an electrical connection to the metal panel, etc. (with appropriate sharp-edged hardware), since the anodized film (Al2O3for aluminum) is a good electrical insulator.

author: JohnG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2022, 02:50:00 am
content: The inherent problem with all these cables is that they are flexible and thus produce micro-phase errors that cast a vague haze over the sound by nonlinear mixing and combining of normally subthreshold artifacts and thus casting an invisible, yet perceptible, sonic brown smog high in the acoustic atmosphere.The only solution is the use of rigid copper conductors, as the sonically experienced understand that silver conductors produce a disturbing harshness to the sound due to their high mechanical Q-factor and the unavoidable electro-mechanical coupling.For full sonic benefit, they must be polished before every listening session and every 20-40 minutes while listening, but this can be conveniently accomplished between vinyl sides.Cheers,John

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2022, 08:34:24 am
content: BIL had some serious home Hi Fi years ago, with all those fancy expensive cables on show. however where they went into the floor, we cut a hole in the wood, placed a brace under the floor, and fed the wire from one end to the other. Then, because the cables were 2m long, we cut them in half, and used regular 2.5mm copper house wire to extend them under the floor, and regular chocolate block terminal blocks to join them. Cable used was some recovered cable as well, just scraped off the black oxide both sides to get a clean joint, and then put the plank back with some screws, and a corner cut out to allow clearance. Worked well enough, and was a cheap method to get fancy cable in a really long length, and nobody could hear any difference.Some of those fancy cables were really poor quality, did plenty of work on some to resolder poor connections to the plugs, which had snapped off, because the heavy gold plate turned the solder purple. Add solder, flick off onto newspaper, and replace with more solder, and push the wire actually into the hole. Still have some, I use them as a source of nice PTFE coated silver plated test leads, using cheap plugs I got from Frankie.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 12, 2022, 03:32:01 pm
content: It's strange that "high end" audio cables and equipment are even available in single ended, differential I/O should be standard well before that point. Differential inputs even offer some benefit connecting to single ended devices.Quote from: AVGresponding on January 26, 2022, 06:57:27 pmIf you're referencing Fran's housing troubles, she's quite tall, hardly a "little" lady.

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2022, 10:24:43 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on February 12, 2022, 03:32:01 pmI was not. I was referring to the problem of scammers stealing the life savings from little old ladies (they are not all little or old, or ladies, but that is the "meme"), by various means, such as fake building works, getting them to give power of attorney and etc etc.

author: NaxFM
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2022, 03:38:03 pm
content: At least in this cable there is an actual audio signal, so maybe there could really be some imrpovement so tiny that it's physically impossible to measure.But wanna talk bout this?https://www.analogueseduction.net/mains-cables/ODINgold1.html?currency=3A 43k bucks mains cable for which the only positive thing they could say is this"This cable not only eliminates EMI and RFI, but promotes a faster rise time in the 50/60 Hz cycle, ensuring the instantaneous and stable delivery of the AC current necessary for premium results. "Oh, and in case you are insterested, they also sell a "Burn in CDs" used to demagnitize residuals fields that build up in the components over time

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2022, 04:45:01 pm
content: They call it GOLD when infact it is gold plated:.Nordost Odin Gold Mains Cablehttps://www.analogueseduction.net/mains-cables/ODINgold1.html?currency=3Quote"the Odin Gold Power Cord harnesses the full breadth of Nordost’stechnological advances."When they get people believing in this crap and getting them to buy it.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2022, 05:36:49 pm
content: The "rise time", as defined in textbooks, of a 60 Hz sine wave (time from 10% to 90% of amplitude) can be calculated (but I'm too lazy this morning). If the rise time were "improved" (reduced), that would be the first step on the way to a square wave.

author: NaxFM
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2022, 07:08:42 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on February 13, 2022, 05:36:49 pmWhich would be even worse for audio equipment due to its higher frequency components...They can't even agree with themselves

author: JohnG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2022, 03:48:10 pm
content: Quote from: MrMobodies on February 13, 2022, 04:45:01 pmA little off topic, but an even more blatant lie:https://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/solid-gold/If it was SOLID gold, how could you even drink it!!Cheers,John

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2022, 04:18:37 pm
content: Maybe 25 years ago, I tried a shot of Danziger Goldwasserhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwasserwith visible gold flakes in it, but could not see any reason to drink more.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2022, 05:29:42 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on February 14, 2022, 04:18:37 pmMy grandparents - from Danzig (fled from Danzig to Kiel in Germany) - always got a bottle of "Goldwasser" for christmas, which reminded them of the "old times". Presumably, as they were members of the academic yachting club of Danzig, then Kiel, quite a few bottles were emptied on a regular base. They did more drinking than yachting

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2022, 06:50:27 pm
content: A serious technical report from NIH about being killed with molten gold down the throat.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769869/In history, certain ancient Romans and later Spanish Conquistadors were assassinated in this manner.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 14, 2022, 07:51:23 pm
content: Joke: The only gold there is is what the founders are going to make and I see they have a mug club membership from $400 - $1400https://foundersbrewing.com/brewery/grand-rapids/mug-club/I don't understand, is that suppose to be a good deal or are they taking them for amug?QuoteI can't seem to find the ingredients.Quote from: TimFox on February 14, 2022, 04:18:37 pmJust reminded me of this article:https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/16547319/luxxo-burgers-covered-in-gold-tolworth/NICE BUNS Glitteringburger to rival Salt Bae is covered in 24-carat GOLD – and will set you back an eye-watering £135.95QuoteThen at the end of the day it'll go straight outside their backsides in the toilet.1Like with Audiofoolery about hearing the difference I am sure with that amount of money spend on it they'll also taste the difference.I have a question. What would happen say before someone is sent to the electric chair and are fed gold burgers and leaves would that help them conduct the electricity a bit better?