Oh, I'm not correcting that statement -- except that it looks like a
whole lot more than one are being born every minute now.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Dick Carroll; wrote:
Roy, I still like your first statement better :"There's one born every minute..."

Roy Lewallen wrote:


I stand corrected! A little bit of web research shows that this would be
a venture capitalist's dream. . .

Dick Carroll; wrote:

Roy, I still like your first statement better :"There's one born every minute..."

Here are some of the claims:

"Bybee Technologies claims that the quantum filtering provided also
speeds up electrons by as much as 50% and in the process selectively
removes undesirable ones, thus purifying the remaining signal."

The review this was taken from (SoundStage!) then goes on to tout the
"damping characteristics" of the wooden box the device is housed in.
I'm curious about whether the reviewer might also happen to write for
the Weekly World News.

Reminds me of the blind man selling pencils on the street corner for
$10,000 apiece. He claimed he only needed to sell one.

:-)
73, ac6xg

Roy Lewallen wrote:


I stand corrected! A little bit of web research shows that this would be
a venture capitalist's dream. I have to continually remind myself not to
overestimate the golden-ear crowd -- after all, the gold-plated 8 ohm
characteristic impedance speaker cables sold (and I assume still sell)
like hot cakes. The placebo effect is certainly powerful, but it's
possible that the "quantum purifiers" might actually do something.
Rather than believe that the purveyor is actually selling components
whose composition is "classified by the U.S. military", I'd be willing
to bet they're some sort of more-or-less off the shelf varistor. That
would flavor the music a bit, and anyone who'd just dropped 600 bucks
for a pair of them would no doubt find the flavoring to be marvelous. A
few minutes with a curve tracer and some web specifications should pin
the source down pretty quickly. But I'm not quite 600 bucks curious. . .

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote:

Egad, there's a sucker born every minute. It's stuff like this that
makes venture capitalists the cynical SOBs they are.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Dick Carroll; wrote:

Roy, I still like your first statement better :"There's one born every minute..."

Here are some of the claims:

"Bybee Technologies claims that the quantum filtering provided also
speeds up electrons by as much as 50% and in the process selectively
removes undesirable ones, thus purifying the remaining signal."

The review this was taken from (SoundStage!) then goes on to tout the
"damping characteristics" of the wooden box the device is housed in.
I'm curious about whether the reviewer might also happen to write for
the Weekly World News.

Reminds me of the blind man selling pencils on the street corner for
$10,000 apiece. He claimed he only needed to sell one.

:-)
73, ac6xg

Roy Lewallen wrote:


I stand corrected! A little bit of web research shows that this would be
a venture capitalist's dream. I have to continually remind myself not to
overestimate the golden-ear crowd -- after all, the gold-plated 8 ohm
characteristic impedance speaker cables sold (and I assume still sell)
like hot cakes. The placebo effect is certainly powerful, but it's
possible that the "quantum purifiers" might actually do something.
Rather than believe that the purveyor is actually selling components
whose composition is "classified by the U.S. military", I'd be willing
to bet they're some sort of more-or-less off the shelf varistor. That
would flavor the music a bit, and anyone who'd just dropped 600 bucks
for a pair of them would no doubt find the flavoring to be marvelous. A
few minutes with a curve tracer and some web specifications should pin
the source down pretty quickly. But I'm not quite 600 bucks curious. . .

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote:

Egad, there's a sucker born every minute. It's stuff like this that
makes venture capitalists the cynical SOBs they are.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL