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[audioquest]

Have anyone here use this device before? This is a device that I bought from oversea it is the Blue Horizon Proburn Cable Burn-in Accelerator. How true it is claim by the manufacturer?We will find out soon. I will bring it to FHRX tomorrow and let Marty himself find out how true the manufacturer claim. Check this link to find out more about this product Blue Horizon. Could it be another "Snake Oil"?

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[br85]

Oh no.

"condition them for 24 hours every six to eight weeks and your cables will remain free from negative charges and static problems."

Edited by br85, 17 July 2010 - 12:39 AM.

[audioquest]

World War III starting???

[br85]

audioquest, on 17 July 2010 - 12:38 AM, said:

World War III starting???

Let me just put this here, it is another one of their products. It cleans interconnects.

On a side-note, it is now one of my lifelong goals to see this company go bankrupt.

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Edited by br85, 17 July 2010 - 12:43 AM.

ss-rotel, on 14 September 2010 - 11:05 PM, said:

you dont some much hear, but fell the sound

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[crad]

It's probably a secret blend of acetone that's been extracted from the munga roots found only in the Himalayas and guarded by Bhutan monks

E: Oh wow, they have a picture of Tesla on the product page... and they can't even spell his name right.

Edited by crad, 17 July 2010 - 12:55 AM.

[data_mine]

People actually believe that garbage.

Honestly don't know where to start against that page.

Skin effect. This is a true scientific occurrence, however it's negligible for anything in the audio frequency range (or even close).
i.e. at 60Hz the skin effect is 8.5mm thick. So unless you're cable is a solid single core of more than 19mm diameter, 'special ultra low frequencies' aren't going to do anything 60Hz can't*.

And aren't all our cables made from fine stranded copper anyway? For skin effect to not completely saturate each strand, you need to be sending microwave frequencies down it (2GHz+), audio signals will never succumb to skin effect in stranded cable.

The cable I use has 0.2mm strands (x79 of them for 16ga). The frequency at which skin effect starts meaning anything is a little bit more than 900KHz - more than 40 times higher than what a CD can encode (at 44.1KHz)

*this assumes what they're doing is useful in the first place.

It's funny how you can never find any actual evidence these things work.

[br85]

data_mine, on 17 July 2010 - 12:58 AM, said:

It's funny how you can never find any actual evidence these things work.

This Video counts as actual evidence doesn't it? Those tiny little blue and green spheres spiraling around the core is SCIENCE, I'll have you know.

[audioquest]

br85, on 17 July 2010 - 12:44 AM, said:

Let me just put this here, it is another one of their products. It cleans interconnects.

On a side-note, it is now one of my lifelong goals to see this company go bankrupt.

Well from what I see it is just a cleaner for connectors. Why wait to see the company go bankrupt, what do you benefit from it? It is also belong to someone heart and soul. It is a willing buyer willing seller world. We buy it, we try it and we comment on it. Have you try it?

[br85]

audioquest, on 17 July 2010 - 01:12 AM, said:

Well from what I see it is just a cleaner for connectors. Why wait to see the company go bankrupt, what do you benefit from it? It is also belong to someone heart and soul. It is a willing buyer willing seller world. We buy it, we try it and we comment on it. Have you try it?

A heroin dealer is just as unethical, and he probably believes his business belongs to his heart and soul as well. Aren't we talking about selling false promises here? If you hate heroin dealers, you hate Blue Horizon.

[crad]

Let's go buy one of these and test it next.

[br85]

crad, on 17 July 2010 - 01:19 AM, said:

Let's go buy one of these and test it next.

Then again, I'd actually buy those and give them to my dumbass friends as gifts because they're obviously funny. I hope that rewinder doesn't cost £695 like the Proburn™ does.

Edited by br85, 17 July 2010 - 01:26 AM.

[devolutionary]

You're also going to need one of the audiodharma CABLE COOKERs.
http://www.audioexce...cablecooker.htm
I recommend getting the Anniversary Edition, featuring Cardas ACBP binding posts, for $999US.

I used this to cook my TARA Labs Zero interconnects which run $14,900 per 1M pair.
http://stereophile.c...ables/1206tara/

And also used it to cook my Music Interface Technologies Oracle v2.1 Interconnects and Speaker Cables which cost me $9,000US.
http://www.soundstag..._oracle_v21.htm

Once all hooked up to my new volume control the $6,800US Silver Rock Potentiometer, I was in audio nirvana.
http://www.reference...ory_Code=VOLUME

[Luke352]

br85, on 17 July 2010 - 12:35 AM, said:

"condition them for 24 hours every six to eight weeks and your cables will remain free from negative charges and static problems."

HAHA, or you could just take your cable outside hold the end and stick your other hand on the ground, this will pretty much achieve the same thing.

As for cleaning interconnects a quick wipe with some this http://www.shop3m.co...8_p/0378554.htm and a wipe down with some Iso Alcohol will acheive a far better result then whatever they are claiming there stuff in the nail polish bottle will acheive.

As for there other claim "Stabilizes similar and dissimilar metals to guarantee best possible contact and signal transfer" Dissimilar metal corrosion is a very true condition but generally requires a plating material to reduce it, you also need an elctrolyte for it to even occur.

[~Spyne~]

oh lordy.
goes to find his bottle of snake oil and the box with the spare magic purple smoke, to sell on ebay

[Shreknos]

i like how the casing says, "do not open, no user servicible parts inside, do not remove sensitive casing, refer to service personal"...

basically, "this box is empty, we put heavy aluminium end caps to give it weight otherwise it would not weigh a thing, we dont want you to open it so we dont look like knobs"