More "audiophile" nonsense......

[Marvin the Martian]

950 euros for this....


and these.....


oh, and then you have to supply an automobile battery and charger to power this "amp".

http://www.mother-of-tone.com/byob.htm

Sad thing is, there are people out there that will buy this thing.....

[CrowdAds]

[musichound]

LOL! This is the dumbest gimmick I've seen in a long time. I bet it doesn't cost more than 5 bucks to make.

[IDvsEGO]

Experience Oneness

Another interesting sonic character of the BYOB amp is that of integrity. The musical performance will reach you undivided and intact -> AS ONE. You will know what I mean when you listen to it.

[kp-j3]

"Good sound is the absence of distortion mechanisms.

As well as happyness is our basic nature and is present as long as deteriorating conditions are absent, a good sound is nothing but the avoidance of distortion mechanisms"


I really don't understand this theory. It assumes every source material ever made was sonically perfect.

I had a friend that in his system had a $1500 preamp with separate power supply, and three knobs, input, volume and balance. It was the most lifeless "high end" system I've heard in my lifetime. (He spent hundreds if not thousands in interconnects too).

[McDougal]

No thanks, I'll pass, lol......

[The DarkSide]

I believe this is the same idiot who created the Altman Tera player: http://www.head-fi.org/t/599685/altmann-tera-player

I was one of the main antagonists in the original thread, and was almost banned. The creator is a biased idiot,...

Feel free to enjoy!!!

[Jack4L]

If your trying that hard to enjoy your music more, then holy hell you must not like music at all.

[dawningistheday]

hahahahaha
I love the tags for this thread!
True audiophiles don't love music, they love sound, and I'd imagine anybody who'd buy something like this would be hard pressed to sit through a 4 minute song without tweaking something or changing out the jumper cables.

[WalkGood]

Gold connector on cable is for show, if you zoom in on the cable you'll note the wire is plain old copper. I prefer cryogenic treatment on all my cables fail!

[Big Sky]

Originally Posted by dawningistheday

hahahahaha
I love the tags for this thread!
True audiophiles don't love music, they love sound, and I'd imagine anybody who'd buy something like this would be hard pressed to sit through a 4 minute song without tweaking something or changing out the jumper cables.

That is very true they love sound and the romance of sound that high-end gear gives them. They also love music too!

I have had my share of high-end gear. Unlike someone with loads of cash to spend if you don't know how to set your system up your are better off with a sub $1000 system because it will sound about the same. Like a Porsche owner that can barely shift let alone drive.

With that said you have to be high to buy this and yes Gold is a gimmick.

[The DarkSide]

Total damn idiots,...

[PEACEFUL1]

Electrocution for listing to 3-4 minute music?!

[JSV]

A battery powered amp does makes sense because it eliminates the need for rectifying and filtering the power supply to the amp. The purest the DC is, the less parasitic noise there is, and the best the amp will work. Transforming AC to very pure DC is a challenge.

Audiophiles spend thousands of dollars for "line conditioners", and, believe it or not, many, many hundreds of dollars for power cables, in order to get "clean" AC, so that the built-in power supplies of each devices in their system could supposedly output better DC...supposedly.

Using a large lead-acid battery to power a hifi system is therefore logical... A battery can supply the purest DC by itself, without any rectification or filtering. A battery eliminates a lot of hardware in order to achieve the same results. You can call this a "budget-minded audiophile amp".

The simpler the better, though. Good amps are almost always simple to build and understand. I wouldn't be surprised if this amp sound very clean and transparent, even if there is very little components.

However, there is absolutely no need for gold-plated battery connectors, and when the maker of this amp claims that the piece of wood underneath, as well as the lacquer used on it, has sonic relevance, it's 100% snake oil.

[The DarkSide]

So, you deem this worthy of it's exorbitant price tag then? Especially since it's quite possible to DIY this on your own for a few $$$? Should this be front page FOTM news?

This wasn't a discussion of if this amp works or not, as I see you may or may not make valid points. It's a discussion of the fact that audiofools will create & market anything to get a fast $$$. And I actually mean "label & rip off" each other,... Say "whatever" is audiophile tech and idiots fall out of the woodwork,...

[musichound]

Originally Posted by JSV

A battery powered amp does makes sense because it eliminates the need for rectifying and filtering the power supply to the amp. The purest the DC is, the less parasitic noise there is, and the best the amp will work. Transforming AC to very pure DC is a challenge.

Audiophiles spend thousands of dollars for "line conditioners", and, believe it or not, many, many hundreds of dollars for power cables, in order to get "clean" AC, so that the built-in power supplies of each devices in their system could supposedly output better DC...supposedly.

Using a large lead-acid battery to power a hifi system is therefore logical... A battery can supply the purest DC by itself, without any rectification or filtering. A battery eliminates a lot of hardware in order to achieve the same results. You can call this a "budget-minded audiophile amp".

The simpler the better, though. Good amps are almost always simple to build and understand. I wouldn't be surprised if this amp sound very clean and transparent, even if there is very little components.

However, there is absolutely no need for gold-plated battery connectors, and when the maker of this amp claims that the piece of wood underneath, as well as the lacquer used on it, has sonic relevance, it's 100% snake oil.

Correct me if I'm wrong, because pardon me, I am no expert in audio and am probably making a rash statement. Isn't rigging an amplifier to a car battery the same thing as listening to a DAP via it's battery instead of being plugged into AC current?

[Carson Dyle]

Originally Posted by The DarkSide

This wasn't a discussion of if this amp works or not, as I see you may or may not make valid points. It's a discussion of the fact that audiofools will create & market anything to get a fast $$$. And I actually mean "label & rip off" each other,... Say "whatever" is audiophile tech and idiots fall out of the woodwork,...

So your point is that there are idiots in the world? No kidding?

Whatever would folks do without being alerted to all these audiophile scams? Thanks for the warning....

[The DarkSide]

Originally Posted by Carson Dyle

So your point is that there are idiots in the world? No kidding?

Whatever would folks do without being alerted to all these audiophile scams? Thanks for the warning....

Thanks for YOUR vote of confidence,... I'm glad to see you've crawled out from under your rock to give me the justification I've always craved!!!

[JSV]

Originally Posted by musichound

Correct me if I'm wrong, because pardon me, I am no expert in audio and am probably making a rash statement. Isn't rigging an amplifier to a car battery the same thing as listening to a DAP via it's battery instead of being plugged into AC current?

Yep. Pretty much it.

It haven't happened to me since a while, probably because I never listen to my Sansa Clip+ when it is recharging, but I remember back in the days, in the times of cassette walkmans and portable CD players, I could often hear a faint, but characteristic 60Hz hum when they were powered with the AC adapter...

It was very faint, mind you, completely disappearing when the music was playing, but there was definitely no such hum when using batteries...

Now, I don't have golden ears. Those who are blessed/cursed with golden ears might be able to hear such hum when there's music playing...

[WalkGood]

Originally Posted by JSV

Yep. Pretty much it.

It haven't happened to me since a while, probably because I never listen to my Sansa Clip+ when it is recharging, but I remember back in the days, in the times of cassette walkmans and portable CD players, I could often hear a faint, but characteristic 60Hz hum when they were powered with the AC adapter...

It was very faint, mind you, completely disappearing when the music was playing, but there was definitely no such hum when using batteries...

Now, I don't have golden ears. Those who are blessed/cursed with golden ears might be able to hear such hum when there's music playing...

Hum from alternating current (AC) can also be due to poor grounding (ground loop), while I can not speak of houses around the world, houses built where I live in the mid 30's to late 50's have/had very poor wiring and grounding.

Prime example; when I first bought my house, my marantz amp produced a small hum which I determined to be poor grounding. An electrician friend of mine and I did a lot of rewiring and bam ... I'll give you 1,000 bucks if you can hear a hum and no batteries required That said it's also possible that amp wiring and manufacturing techniques have improved in the mid to lower end amps to preform much better.

So just because you say you heard a hum from your DAP, doesn't mean that it was from it ... it could have been due to where you plugged it in.

[JSV]

Originally Posted by WalkGood

I'll give you 1,000 bucks if you can hear a hum and no batteries required

I agree, but an audiophile will most probably find a way to convince himself that there's hum in your system, because it's not an expensive one.