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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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jeffb28451
128 posts
 
Probably, but I remember years ago when I moved by outboard transformers for some old
PS Audio power amps and told my favorite salesman (very timidly, since I didn't want to make it sound like I heard the huge difference that I had heard).  He told me that he'd been in the business 20 years at that point and if I "told him the amps got up and marched around the room",
he'd believe me.  You never know until you try, but some tries cost more than others.
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geoffkait
14,147 posts
 
The vector of the induced magnetic field in the cable, the one produced by current flowing through the cable, IS at a right angle to the cable. So one wouldn’t need anything else to cause it to do that. So it must be something else.

rcprince
2,830 posts
 
Again, I suggest reading Dudley's article, it includes a description of Ric Schultz's design and what he claims it does. While it made things worse in Art's system, he didn't discount that it might work in other systems. 
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lak
3,516 posts
 
Gentlemen,
Seems mighty easy for the naysayers to call products "snake oil" when they never tried the product.
Before you bash something and say it can’t work you should try it for yourself, and then state your thoughts based upon your experience, good or bad.
There are other forums here on Audiogon where the HFC products are discussed by people that own and use the products: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/high-fidelity-cables-ct-1designed-by-rick-schultz
Regarding Dudley's article; I posted the following based upon my own experience:
I just read the article in Stereophile regarding the HFC magnetic adapters. One thing I learned more then a year ago is you have to put any HFC product in place, and leave it there for let's say 24 - 48 hours and let it settle in and do whatever it is that it does within those hours. I also suffered from the frustration of not being able to put a HFC product in and out to do a comparison test, but it just doesn't work that way. Personally I think that's the error that Art Dudley made. He described honestly what he heard but I don't think he realized what I described above. Just my personal opinion.

cleeds
2,065 posts
 
lak  " ... Seems mighty easy for the naysayers to call products 'snake oil' when they never tried the product.
Before you bash something and say it can’t work you should try it for yourself, and then state your thoughts based upon your experience, good or bad ..."

I think you're correct, lak, but you miss the point. The naysayers you mention are mostly interested in touting their expertise and prowess, not in actually going to the trouble of trying a product. Some of these self-proclaimed experts will even profess to know how a poster's entire system will sound - they insist they can do this because of their familiarity with such a wide variety of equipment, their unique engineering skills, their intimate knowledge of circuit design, and so on. We have one contributor here who insists he alone has identified a critical form of distortion that no one else has ever detected and that even he himself can't measure. But he's designed a circuit that can "correct" this elusive, immeasurable, unfathomable distortion.

You and I can't change the behavior of these pretenders to a throne, lak. Really the best thing to do is to just ignore them. Their proclamations are sometimes so absurd that it's hard to remain silent, however. I get that. When their posts verge into the name-calling and profane, the best thing to do is alert the moderators. I've had excellent cooperation from the moderating team here.
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