Between bosons and Bose
Engadget snarks over a new, um, gadget:
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says “takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction” to improve your stereo’s sound quality by simply being in the same room. How? “Your gear’s radiation is transformed into room-temperature black-body radiation.”
Indisputably the gear radiates. However, you can buy a whole lot of electromagnetic shielding for rather a lot less than $959.
And if this makes more sense to you than it does to me, you might be interested in their $1149 power cord.
Jeffro »
27 November 2009 · 1:05 pm
I understand their chief engineer (who retrieved his degree from a box of Cracker Jacks) highly recommends the “eye of newt” option, as it really brings out the sound quality.
CGHill »
27 November 2009 · 1:17 pm
Yeah, but it has to be specifically Newt Gingrich, or the polarization angle won’t be correct.
fillyjonk »
29 November 2009 · 2:32 pm
I’m guessing that only people of the highest taste and breeding can actually hear the difference?
Do they also make suits for emperors?
CGHill »
29 November 2009 · 3:41 pm
The test for all such, I contend, is “Quarter to Three” by Gary “U.S.” Bonds, of which critic Dave Marsh said:
No Magic Alex-esque black box is going to change his mind, or mine.