I spotted some amusing videos on youtube on the audio designer Angela-Gilbert Yeung. I would like your input on the products she/he puts in the market.
Ans can someone give me an explanations for the massive amount of silicone that is randomly sprayed in the audio builds?
Ans can someone give me an explanations for the massive amount of silicone that is randomly sprayed in the audio builds?
And they're asking top dollar for their 'fabrications'. My favorite:
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While the Blue Circle products were well regarded in their time and A-GY has some interesting ideas, I reached my tipping point of B.S. when I was watching a recent video and there was talk of not making 90 degree bends in wiring, as it made it too hard for the electrons the "turn the corner"! 
Dan
Dan
Quote: The BC2 gave me the reputation of being unconventional or eccentric… possibly an iconoclast. The word “iconoclast” can be described a number of ways, but the one I like best is “A person who for whatever reason, simply sees things differently than other people do”. Guilty.
That is so bad I actually felt embarrassed for 'that person' while reading it.
That is so bad I actually felt embarrassed for 'that person' while reading it.
Meet him/her a few years back at the Montreal Hifi show, shy person, seating in one corner. Metal chassis could be improved, a lot of silicon goo everywhere. Not sure about the sound either. Not my cup of tea, but your right, he/his a designer with ‘out of the box’ thinking. May appeal to some, there is a wide range of listeners preferences. I prefer well made, well engineered stuff (read built like a tank 😉 like Pass, Accuphase, etc…
SB
SB
While the Blue Circle products were well regarded in their time and A-GY has some interesting ideas, I reached my tipping point of B.S. when I was watching a recent video and there was talk of not making 90 degree bends in wiring, as it made it too hard for the electrons the "turn the corner"!
This is frowned upon in RF designs, as the sharp bend alters the line impedance and causes reflections.
https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/electromagnetism-ii/bends-and-corners
Think His stuff is nonsense yes. A obvious answer
Is it going for the shock factor? Make something so ridiculous people might believe it?
It is a lot of nonsense for 25 Watts. The more confused you get asking logical questions.
Just makes me feel confusion, is the point. Dont care for the art of pointless confusion.
If you remove the colorful clown presentation. On a electronic level the amount of components and size for 25 Watts
Would be just as silly too.
Even if stripped down to a actual serious level. It is then still ridiculous = Make sure you cover it all.
A LM3886 with a pink pc board just wouldn't be good enough.
Looks like clown bait
I listen to music to escape it, not engage in nonsense for people that like attention.
Dont worry the " real one" will be normal he said. Then show a " client" install that looks the same.
OK sure. Whatever
I get the comical aspect. So amuse yourself then by making things ridiculous on purpose.
Something we did as teens to get attention.
Is it going for the shock factor? Make something so ridiculous people might believe it?
It is a lot of nonsense for 25 Watts. The more confused you get asking logical questions.
Just makes me feel confusion, is the point. Dont care for the art of pointless confusion.
If you remove the colorful clown presentation. On a electronic level the amount of components and size for 25 Watts
Would be just as silly too.
Even if stripped down to a actual serious level. It is then still ridiculous = Make sure you cover it all.
A LM3886 with a pink pc board just wouldn't be good enough.
Looks like clown bait
I listen to music to escape it, not engage in nonsense for people that like attention.
Dont worry the " real one" will be normal he said. Then show a " client" install that looks the same.
OK sure. Whatever
I get the comical aspect. So amuse yourself then by making things ridiculous on purpose.
Something we did as teens to get attention.
I have a Blue Circle Audio “USB Thingee”. Works great. Sounds great. It’s one of the devices built in the PCV pipe with the silicone ends. An interesting and utilitarian solution to cost savings, I think it’s quite clever.
Their multicolored silicone cow pies appear to channel a bored six-year old's yearning for experimentation.
However, their supercapacitor banks make a lot of sense.
I can't make up my mind as to whether they're a misunderstood genius, a buffoon, or a genius masquerading as a buffoon because they think that's the way to be heard.
I've never had the opportunity to audition their equipment but I would love to.
In any event - diy audio was one of the last places where I would expect to encounter overt transphobia.
As always folks, enjoy the music!
However, their supercapacitor banks make a lot of sense.
I can't make up my mind as to whether they're a misunderstood genius, a buffoon, or a genius masquerading as a buffoon because they think that's the way to be heard.
I've never had the opportunity to audition their equipment but I would love to.
In any event - diy audio was one of the last places where I would expect to encounter overt transphobia.
As always folks, enjoy the music!
If you see transphobia please say which post. I think it is more weirdelectronicsbyattentionseekerphobia.
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I built my first transistor radios and amplifiers in the 70s with kits bought from DIY stores -- battery powered low heat, low output designs. I used whatever enclosures I could find to house and transport them, including tin cans from candy and cookies. I remember mounting a couple of output devices on the cans themselves for heatsinking -- thought that was cool. I guess I could have done something with that industrial design down the years.
I built guitar amps on pine or plywood scraps with parts salvaged from discarded radios and TV sets. I used mostly octal sockets since I had better luck at removing them from a dead TV in one piece when armed only with hand tools. Parts were sky wired from tube socket to tube socket with an occasional terminal strip or two to hold the small parts. The finished device did look something like this mess, but without the multicolored silicone goo piles. I don't think that stuff even existed in the early 60's. Books with schematics were rare too. A schoolmate's older brother who was a ham radio guy traced the schematic of an old Fender Champ for me so most of my early amps were variations on that 6SJ7 driving 6V6GT powered by a 5Y3 design.
The house where I grew up was built in 1949 in rural Dade County Florida. There were still large areas of undeveloped land where people dumped their old furniture, TV's, radios and other stuff that the garbage collection truck would not take. They were my parts store as the price suited a kid who tried to build stuff he did not fully understand, resulting in some often spectacular rapid disassembly upon power up. There is no undeveloped land left in South Florida today, so the free parts stores are gone.
I guess the colored goo is more of an artistic statement than functional mounting since that mess would be really hard to fix when it broke. Sheetrock screws would be my choice today. They did not exist in 1960 either. I used nails or wood screws that were usually too short which led to broken tube sockets.
Maybe a silicone goo fetish.
I got my attention by having the loudest electric guitar in the neighborhood. 2 X 75 watt Stromberg Carslon PA amps through 2 DIY cabinets with 4 X 12 inch speakers in each will do that.
"After 21 years of fun and a reasonable profit for the time expended, I will be taking Amherst Audio over the Rainbow Bridge in June of this year. I am 86 and we are living in a condo now, which makes doing demos…awkward.
I retire with the continuing belief, evolved over 68 years, that Jean Claude Reynaud and his father Jean Marie, Gilbert & Angela Yeung, Andy Grove & Peter Qvortrup, and Jeff Kalt are the very best at delivering the clear, natural sound of real voices and instruments. And I leave with the satisfaction that I have done a goodly number of people a favor through my continuing expression of that belief. "
Bob Neill
https://amherstaudio.com/
I retire with the continuing belief, evolved over 68 years, that Jean Claude Reynaud and his father Jean Marie, Gilbert & Angela Yeung, Andy Grove & Peter Qvortrup, and Jeff Kalt are the very best at delivering the clear, natural sound of real voices and instruments. And I leave with the satisfaction that I have done a goodly number of people a favor through my continuing expression of that belief. "
Bob Neill
https://amherstaudio.com/
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Agree.
We blew every paycheck as teens to be full stacked, didnt watch TV to practice.
And spent the rest of the time working on our old trucks or vans to carry the stuff.
Band leader/ singer that got us label interest encouraged running and weight lifting.