Again,it was just me thinking out loud. Sorry if it sounds as if I was being judgmental…
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Yes there certainly is. It is delivered by Jennifer Aniston in a Porsche GT3RS that you get to keep. (the car, that is)
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Ha! Just to expand on the $$$ speaker quotient, my experience has been been that there
are great “inexpensive” speakers that get you 90% there without being the bulk of the system
purchase. I am well aware that this where the greatest distortion or revelation lies, but I have
been fairly satisfied with Maggie 1.7’s driven by a full PSA/Shunyata/Iconoclast rig. I miss some
extreme highs and lows but like the seamless coherency of a good planar. Maybe an AN3
hybrid will trip my trigger and this one does not need a Porsche escort.
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And many might wonder how many hungry children could be fed with the money you spent on your system. We all blow money on stupid stuff. The money goes to somebody though… And their children. Eh?
The most expensive power cord I know is High Fidelity Cables Professional Elite series, $100K meter list price. It weighs 155 lbs.
I quess Rick’s children need to eat too,though I don’t know if he has kids 
Yes Narbooty…we all blow money on stupid stuff.
But…if you can… donate to your local food bank…the kids will appreciate it, ‘that I’m sure of’. Thank-you! 
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I didn’t see anything you said as inflammatory or nasty. Just an observation!
Yah. I’d like to see this too! All this talk…time to put up. 
If you don’t produce a picture, it doesn’t exist.
I would like to see this too
For lovers of freaky high end stuff and until @2chan4ever shows up, a short story about the kind of things I’m playing with.
There are such bigger and smaller HF noise room protection devices. If you like a 3D holographic soundstage with air around sound occurrences…with placing such devices within the room you can design the soundstage. More to the front or back, pulling the stage apart for more air. What you need is a very transmissible, transparent enough setup with decent speaker placement. You won’t believe how your setup sounds without HF noise in the room, also picked up by cabling and components.
AFAIK, no one is preventing him from doing so. He was given a two week time out. So I assume it is that he has opted to leave the Forum.
Hi Badbeef, that would be great. So he could chime in any time he likes. I love a free world.
Do I understand it right? These are high frequency (HF) noise cancellation units?
Typically if these would do a good job, they would measure the HF noise and produce a counter signal. That would be an art at those frequencies.
I do have noice cancelling headphones and use them while flying. When playing music the Bose system outperform the Sennheiser, but the Sennheiser are dead silent when nothing is playing, the Bose have an audible noise floor.
So for audible frequencies it’s already an art to do it right.
But for high frequencies: if you can regulate, wouldn’t that mean that they wouldn’t only cancel, but be capable to induce.
I am skeptical. Measuring, processing HF noise, and producing an accurate counter signal causes latency. So wouldn’t inaccuracy and latency just introduce extra noise?
Still curious how those units work.
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I can’t tell much detail except that they work somewhere in the range of mobile phone or microwave radiation etc. and that their scope of application can be fit by switches…and I can’t and don’t want to argument against theoretical assumptions.
All I can say is they come without audible downsides and the effect of more 3D, air, ambiance, separation is comparable to Windom for those who get it, just much more. For an already top notch setup it’s what everyone’s keen on and what you otherwise won’t explore to this extent. Their ad nails it. Their whole stuff is my recommendation more than any other part of equipment.
Thanks for sharing the brand, something extra to read this weekend.
What I remember from Perth is the Dewars bottlery. Had a bad cold that day. The tour guide opened the top hatch of the vessel where they mix that liquid gold. He asked me to step forward waved a little fume my way and my air vents were cleared. The tasting afterwards may also contribute to the fact that I forgot that cold.
But I prefer to follow the street North to Pitlochry, first go see the fish ladder then drown that salmon with a good Edradour straight from the cask. Take the night there and further North through Killiecranky to Blair Atholl and there you go: the jaw dropping Highlands.
Such good memories. May be a long drive to the next PS Audio dealer, but who cares if you can live there.
My best whisky experience ever was a visit at the Single Malt Highland Whisky Society, members only, but a good friend took me there when I mentioned that I couldn’t imagine that the Scottish would send their best abroad. Wooha, solid Granite brick building, a fire place where you need to walk in to get close to the warmth of the fire and a 5m (estimate) high wall with … at least 70 casks of Single Malt Wisky’s, only few non Scottish will ever know off. Had a bottle filled and checked out. Upon return home from that trip in September my wife’s only comment was: “see that you bought your Christmas present already”.Couldn’t wait till Christmas.
A Scotsman once told me when we sat in an airplane next to each other on the third try to put the bird on the ground in a bad thunderstorm “Whisky doesn’t get any better in the bottle and it would be a shame to have the good stuff left in the bottle when the plane crashes” so I adopted the habit to enjoy the liquid instead of looking at it.
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Wise words across the board!
He told me that he is a maintenance and repair specialist and travelled all the worlds to maintain and repair Sikorsky helicopters. In his case perhaps a mix of experience and wisdom.