Hyperbole Watchdog Forum


An interesting idea just occured to me.

I would like to start a thread to keep a running account of AudiogoN'ers who engage in excessive use of hyperbole.

A couple of ground rules are in order:

1) The Cable Forum is completely off limits as it is inherently riddled with the stuff. In fact, one might argue that the high-end cable market wouldn't exist without such outlandish claims as "my jaw dropped to the floor" when referring to an interconnect.

2) No need to name names or offer any editorial comment. If it's hyperbole, just quoting the offender should speak for itself.

So how 'bout it? A little levity to keep things loose could go a long way in a hobby where we can sometimes take ourselves a little too seriously.

I'll start: An Audiogon'er referring to placing isolation feet under his audio rack.

"The system was for the first time tonally balanced, the bass response increased, the sound stage widened, the noise floor dropped, there was greater depth, increased clarity, and most importantly the brightness and harshness had completely disappeared!"
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"...then it was if everything came tumbling together in a blinding light, The dynamics, soundstage, imaging, suddently leaped to life and it was as if god himself parted the clouds and reached down from the heavens and bestowed my humble system with the divine sound. I sat there in quiet disbelief as the angels trumpeted thier appreciation and layed thier wings upon the existance of the sonic purity, and it was at that moment when i knew i would forever be one with the music, that i had reached the heightened level of existance that people only whisper about, for fear that the fragile perfection will collapse like a house of cards if spoken of too loudly. My true astonishment was that all i had to do to achieve this level of audio nirvana was to simply put a....."

I ran across tid bit in another forum a little while back, thought it was kinda funny so i printed it out. He was talking about the Bose Wave Radio.
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"...from the beginning it sounded thin and bright but after 400 hours of continuous break-in and listening it started to sound more open through a larger soundstage and holographic imaging; bass became more deep and defined..."

from ultimate fetish experience.
Everytime I read that some product "blows away" another product I immediately assume the writer has no idea what they're talking about.
You guys crack me up.

Here's another one from the classifieds.

In reference to a RARE ONKYO amplifier..."This amplifier will truly embarrass the likes of Mark Levinson, Krell, etc."