Magnetic RCA adaptors: Latest snake oil?


Every time I open an audiophile rag ( Back pages.) Have a  Live artist in your living room

Gizmo is now ready to BLOW OFF your wig!!

Now it's MAGNETIC couplers (RCA adaptors)  FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL to

align eddy currents carrying RED BOOK CD or Vinyl pure notes to your speakers.

And let's not forget ending at our EARS.

Anyone tried these. Only those who have lost there WIG PLEASE!!

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Showing 1 response by moto_man

Hey, I hate misaligned "eddy currents" as much as the next audiophool. At $549 for four, I'm not sure that this even qualifies for "snake oil." I guess that it does, since it smells like total BS and it is one of those rare vials of snake oil that a reviewer from Stereophile didn't crap in his pants about.  Now you know that if a reviewer doesn't fawn all over the latest trend in snake oil as the most magnificent thing you can buy for your system since the invention of electricity, there is a problem.  But I think that I know what the problem is . . . The snake oil is TOO CHEAP!  Had the cost of realigning those pesky eddy currents been in the snake oil "sweetspot" . . . say $2500 to $5000, no doubt the reviewer would have been "blown away" by the amazing increase in soundstage and "sparkle" now that his eddy currents were aligned.

But of course, maybe I'm just a skeptic.  Maybe @rcprince is right . . .it was the fault of the transistors in the reviewer's preamp!  I once again, as I have in another thread, call for scientific double-blind testing before some reviewer supports (or discredits) the latest snake oil.