What if.....

[forbigger]

Sennheiser or AKG or any of those headphone companies come up with supposedly audiophile grade wireless headphone then I believe the following would happen:

1. Big war on HF, cable vs wireless

2. Snake oil company will come up with "atmosphere treatment" so that RF will travel more freely and no interruption on the air thus increasing SQ

What else you guys reckon would happens ?

[Salt Peanuts]

2. Snake oil company will come up with "atmosphere treatment" so that RF will travel more freely and no interruption on the air thus increasing SQ

I'm pretty sure there are already several companies claiming something similar.

[forbigger]

Yeah, reminds me about that Lossless shit

[rogue]

3) MarkL "reviews" them and calls them rubbish without his $2000 mod, which consists of changing the ear cups to "RFI impervious" balsa wood and super-gluing a pair of gold-plated rabbit ear TV antennas to the phones.

[Nebby]

You mean that Lessloss shit? Blackbody - $959.00 : LessLoss high end audio power cables, video power cables, audiophile power cables, audiophile cables

[rogue]

You mean that Lessloss shit? Blackbody - $959.00 : LessLoss high end audio power cables, video power cables, audiophile power cables, audiophile cables

Ungh. Hasn't this already been done with those stupid magical stones? MUSICDIRECT - SHAKTI - ELECTROMAGNETIC STABILIZER STONE

[n_maher]

My favorite part of Lessloss's business plan,

It is true that the longer lengths of the DFPC sound just a little bit better than the shorter lengths...

Riiiiiiiight, so now you're telling me that I have to buy longer cables to get the best sound possible.

[The Monkey]

As I understand it, the Lessloss stuff helps with the electromagnetic mojo (or lack thereof) between your components. Does it work on ghosts, too?

[Salt Peanuts]

Hmmm, "the electromagnetic mojo," I think you got something there, Dinny. Go copyright it and start a business!

[Nebby]

As I understand it, the Lessloss stuff helps with the electromagnetic mojo (or lack thereof) between your components. Does it work on ghosts, too?

The Shakti Stone uses proprietary noise reduction circuitry to absorb and dissipate electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI). Both EMI and RFI degrade the signal transfer in all audio systems. Through an energy conversion process, the Shakti Stone uses an antenna-like circuit to absorb these fi elds and dissipate them as heat.

The Shakti Stone: powered by ghosts.

[forbigger]

if that lessloss stuff was real there would be a Nobel prize in it.

i will get one if it's real

[CarlSeibert]

Hey, that stone is just a brick, more or less. A two hundred dollar brink, I grant you, but still, what's the fun in a brick? I want the stones you scotch tape to your cables!

Disclaimer 1: Putting something heavy on top of a cabinet, particularly a flimsy one, is often a good idea.

Disclaimer 2: Far be it from me to imply that the psychological effects of scotch taping rocks to one's interconnects couldn't make a system's sound, which is perceived after all, better. For a while anyway. It's just that, well. Scotch tape! Rocks! Hmm. Scotch. Rocks. Maybe there is something to this power of suggestion stuff......

[Beefy]

The problem with audiophile grade wireless headphones, is how do you plan to fit half of a B52 in each earcup?

[Currawong]

Audio Technica already has a $1k wireless headphone rig. NFI if it's any good. I think it's based on the AD1000, but I could be wrong. Maybe I should add it to the list of things to plug in when I re-do the W1000X shootout at Best Denki.

[Salt Peanuts]

no, see, you replace the interconnects between the source and the amp with the wireless link, and then have a cable going from the amp to the headphones. or you power the headphones with a powerful microwave beam.

Like the Grado system that never materialized save for few units that popped up in Japan.

[Salt Peanuts]

Damnit, you got in before I could fix my post.

[Salt Peanuts]

Here's the Stereophile report about the Grado vaporware that eventually turned into PS-1.

Stereophile: Grado Labs, Singapore's FreeSystems Announce Wireless Headphones

...and a product brochure.

[Salt Peanuts]

Quality... Elegance... Purity...

sounds like the ad copy of some high falutin' water filter pitcher.

Grado Springs - World's first audiophile-grade bottled water.

[jinp6301]

"Grado Spr1ngs - your mus1c w1ll never seem so r1ch and full aga1n, 1f you aren't full of our water, thus mak1ng us r1ch."

FTFY

[Beefy]

no, see, you replace the interconnects between the source and the amp with the wireless link, and then have a cable going from the amp to the headphones. or you power the headphones with a powerful microwave beam.

Can't wait for the SimCity microwave disaster......

[guzziguy]

The problem with audiophile grade wireless headphones, is how do you plan to fit half of a B52 in each earcup?

What does B52 have in common with "audiophile grade"?

no, see, you replace the interconnects between the source and the amp with the wireless link, and then have a cable going from the amp to the headphones. or you power the headphones with a powerful microwave beam.

Nah, just replace both with MilSpec wireless.

[Beefy]

What does B52 have in common with "audiophile grade"?

Precisely.

[spritzer]

Bright lights and gold screws?