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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by eurasiantiger on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:28AM (#35148349)
This, so much this. Many people ignore most of the things affecting sound quality in their setup. Audiophiles don’t, and they often go the extra mile to satisfy their compulsion for better sound—up to and including psychoacoustics.

If a $10,000 power cable makes your amp sound better to you, who’s to say it doesn’t?

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by stefs on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:03AM (#35148899)
the aunt of a friend promised sick people to talk to angels about their issues for only a modest sum. i'm sure those people felt at least a bit better afterwards, because they were of options otherwise.

on the other hand, they spent hundreds of dollars for nothing and if they eventually recovered they'd tell other sufferers about it, dragging them down too.

does the victims glimmer of hope justify her scam?

background: she herself suffered from an "incurable" illness for months, where she paid other angel conjurers (that's where she got the idea from). turns out it was just iron deficiency and easily cured with iron supplements. at that point she'd already paid several hundred dollars to those charlatans.

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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by eurasiantiger on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:39AM (#35152251)
That is called ”caveat emptor” and it is the founding principle of America.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by dtech on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:47AM (#35149194)
Just because the placebo effect is real, it's bad to advocate people spending $10k on a placebo.
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Re:Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had th... by eurasiantiger on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:40AM (#35152259)
Hey, some people buy ads on social media.
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