I can't comment about Russ Andrews, but if you want to know about audio "smoke and mirrors" Brian, Magic Alex will interest you. He was the man who promised to build the Beatles a 72-track analogue multitrack recorder at a time when the 4 track Studer J37 was state of the art. He also said that he would render studio acoustic treatment, tiles, screens etc, as unnecessary by using an acoustic "force-field" generated by six massive computers which be bought as redundant technology from British Aerospace. Similarly, he claimed that a control to studio "talkback" system would no longer be required as he could electronically tune players/producers/engineers to the "same artistic wavelength". The Beatles put him in charge of their technical R+D at Apple Electronics to design and build there new studio in Saville Row. He brought them to to verge of bankcruptcy.


Goes to prove you can pay someone obscene sums of money but if they are
devoid of talent they'll still just produce crap.

Which reminds me, must go and check the BBC pay announcement to see what
Chris Evans is being paid...

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I can't comment about Russ Andrews, but if you want to know about
audio "smoke and mirrors" Brian, Magic Alex will interest you. He
was the man who promised to build the Beatles a 72-track analogue
multitrack recorder at a time when the 4 track Studer J37 was state
of the art. He also said that he would render studio acoustic
treatment, tiles, screens etc, as unnecessary by using an acoustic
"force-field" generated by six massive computers which be bought as
redundant technology from British Aerospace. Similarly, he claimed
that a control to studio "talkback" system would no longer be
required as he could electronically tune
players/producers/engineers to the "same artistic wavelength". The
Beatles put him in charge of their technical R+D at Apple
Electronics to design and build there new studio in Saville Row.
He brought them to to verge of bankcruptcy.


Goes to prove you can pay someone obscene sums of money but if they
are devoid of talent they'll still just produce crap.

Which reminds me, must go and check the BBC pay announcement to see
what Chris Evans is being paid...

+1



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In article , Richard Jones
wrote:

Which reminds me, must go and check the BBC pay announcement to see
what Chris Evans is being paid...

I do wish more people would phrase it that way instead of saying "earned"
in cases like these! The two terms aren't synonyms.

I noted BTW that some 'talent' may hide behind a 'company' and thus what
they actually get paid remains unclear.

Jim

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In article , Richard Jones newsgroups@rgjo
nes.screaming.net scribeth thus
I can't comment about Russ Andrews, but if you want to know about audio "smoke
and mirrors" Brian, Magic Alex will interest you. He was the man who promised to
build the Beatles a 72-track analogue multitrack recorder at a time when the 4
track Studer J37 was state of the art. He also said that he would render studio
acoustic treatment, tiles, screens etc, as unnecessary by using an acoustic
"force-field" generated by six massive computers which be bought as redundant
technology from British Aerospace. Similarly, he claimed that a control to
studio "talkback" system would no longer be required as he could electronically
tune players/producers/engineers to the "same artistic wavelength". The Beatles
put him in charge of their technical R+D at Apple Electronics to design and
build there new studio in Saville Row. He brought them to to verge of
bankcruptcy.


Goes to prove you can pay someone obscene sums of money but if they are
devoid of talent they'll still just produce crap.

Which reminds me, must go and check the BBC pay announcement to see what
Chris Evans is being paid...


Waay too much the fecking lot of them!

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On 7 Jul 2017 12:04:22 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2017-07-07, Richard Jones wrote:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audio-Grou...item3f7d4189c8

https://tinyurl.com/y8rwh533

I've no idea what a piece of wire attached to a croc clip at one end and
a piece of rosewood (possibly containing silicon wafers?) connected to
the chassis of your Hi-Fi item is supposed to do. Presumably nothing as
they thoughtfully add the following caveat..

"Pls note : We can't 100% gurantee the Ground box have the expected
effect, because it is Subjective feelings，Different person, different
device, different condition and enviroment can let the respond
different, someone respond the ground box with great effect, another
person respond the box with little effect"

Makes 'running in' speaker cables seem positively sane!

Right up there with this cack;

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

That's twice Brilliant Pebbles has been used as Snake Oil. It was also
a part of Ronald Reagan's Star Wars nonsense.

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Also the translation suggests that it was not exactly a native English
speaker doing it.
Its probably a counterpoise.
Brian

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"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2017-07-07, Richard Jones wrote:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audio-Grou...item3f7d4189c8

https://tinyurl.com/y8rwh533

I've no idea what a piece of wire attached to a croc clip at one end and
a piece of rosewood (possibly containing silicon wafers?) connected to
the chassis of your Hi-Fi item is supposed to do. Presumably nothing as
they thoughtfully add the following caveat..

"Pls note : We can't 100% gurantee the Ground box have the expected
effect, because it is Subjective feelings,Different person, different
device, different condition and enviroment can let the respond
different, someone respond the ground box with great effect, another
person respond the box with little effect"

Makes 'running in' speaker cables seem positively sane!

Right up there with this cack;

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

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On 07/07/2017 15:27, Brian Gaff wrote:
Also the translation suggests that it was not exactly a native English
speaker doing it.
Its probably a counterpoise.
Brian



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On 07/07/17 13:04, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Richard Jones wrote:

Makes 'running in' speaker cables seem positively sane!

Right up there with this cack;

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm


People found that believe and peddle in this clearly meaningless
twaddle, should be forced to surrender any gained school or college
examination certificates; assessed as a high insurance risk; not to have
responsibility for raising or teaching others; and, (importantly) should
be disbarred from voting in elections or taking any employment funded by
the state.

We should thus have three tax bands.

- Fuel/Food/Necessities tax,
- Luxuries tax (VAT)
- Vanity tax. Goods for stupid people and their predatory traders.

The last should be set at a high rate (say 40%), but a discount back
down to VAT can be gained by making a full stated public disclosure of
the purchase (for great ridicule, of course) in the announcements
section of the London Gazette.

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On 08/07/2017 09:54, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 07/07/17 13:04, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Richard Jones wrote:

Makes 'running in' speaker cables seem positively sane!

Right up there with this cack;

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm


People found that believe and peddle in this clearly meaningless
twaddle, should be forced to surrender any gained school or college
examination certificates; assessed as a high insurance risk; not to have
responsibility for raising or teaching others; and, (importantly) should
be disbarred from voting in elections or taking any employment funded by
the state.

The people who peddle it may well be aware that it's nonsense.

We should thus have three tax bands.

- Fuel/Food/Necessities tax,
- Luxuries tax (VAT)

The problem with this is defining what a luxury is.


Harold Wilson had that problem, defined it as anything to do with the
leader of the opposition's hobbies.

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On 08/07/17 09:54, Huge wrote:
On 2017-07-07, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

People found that believe and peddle in this clearly meaningless
twaddle, should be forced to surrender any gained school or college
examination certificates; assessed as a high insurance risk; not to have
responsibility for raising or teaching others; and, (importantly) should
be disbarred from voting in elections or taking any employment funded by
the state.

The people who peddle it may well be aware that it's nonsense.

Then that's not too far from fraud, and unless it (at sellers expense)
can be explained to be a legit entrepreneurial concern, they should
shoulder / pass on a higher tax rate.


We should thus have three tax bands.

- Fuel/Food/Necessities tax,
- Luxuries tax (VAT)

The problem with this is defining what a luxury is.


Nope, luxury is already defined in something requiring the application
of VAT. Tolley's tax guide is comprehensive - things that are fairly
mundane like biscuits, but there ye go.

Nope, the _vanity_ tax bracket is what I'm suggesting (and others too,
it's an interesting google..)

It can encompass the whole range of bling that one uses only as an "I
hav excess!" status definer that serves absolutely no other real purpose
other than to ridiculously dry the planet up of limited resources, and
increase the temptations of crime. And add to that, things of paranormal
significance.

The government (and us standard tax payers) should then be able to claw
back money from that without it all disappearing into the pockets of
shysters ...

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