FYI, cool tweak, not so expensive

jwha · « **Reply #20 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 06:14 am »

Don't buy those isolation cones on Audiogon for $40. The same ones are available from Parts Express for $20.90. http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&User_ID=12452583&St=2504&St2=-75836437&St3=78713454&DS_ID=3&Product_ID=4918&DID=7

JoshK · « **Reply #21 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 01:08 pm »

jwha,

thank you for catching this scam!

jcoat007 · « **Reply #22 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 01:16 pm »

Yeah, thanks a lot.

jwha · « **Reply #23 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 01:52 pm »

Maybe we should start a new forum called "Scams" to protect the audiophile community against those who try to pull a fast one...

JohnR · « **Reply #24 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 01:56 pm »

I don't know about a whole forum for it... but I was just thinking that the Trading Post is a bit lost down the bottom of the page. What about moving it up into the Mainstream Circles and expanding it's scope a bit to include anything to do with buying and selling? Like good deals, pointers to interesting ads, scam warnings, and so on. Would liven it up a bit, I think.

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JoshK · « **Reply #25 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 01:58 pm »

Sounds good to me!

jcoat007 · « **Reply #26 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 02:04 pm »

Go for it.

JoshK · « **Reply #27 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 02:17 pm »

Here is another cool link with a really good idea. Of course, I could just go to the garmet district a couple blocks away from my work and buy a roll of synthetic leather fabric (really cheap fabric here) and have my wife make me a bunch of them. I think I might just do that.

http://pws.chartermi.net/~audioman/

Brandon B · « **Reply #28 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 02:22 pm »

Amp cozies. Do they have floral ones with lace too? Or maybe some with gold tassles.

Wouldn't it be better to make one that covers the whole rack and has a way to let heat out the top?

BB

nathanm · « **Reply #29 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 06:04 pm »

Leather gear covers, that's a new one! I myself find that a perimeter fence of razor wire keeps children's inquisitive hands in check. They are persistent little bastards, though. Seems like a few ribbons of flesh swinging in the breeze is sometimes a worthy price to pay for a chance to touch Uncle Nate's stereo system. But I've noticed that Blood-B-Gone solvent also does wonders for polishing scratched CDs, so it's a tie I guess.

Scam warnings!? Dammit you guys, why do you set me up like this? Not fair! The pain...it's too much!

cjr888 · « **Reply #30 on:** 9 Apr 2003, 07:47 pm »

Quote from: JoshK

Here is another cool link with a really good idea. Of course, I could just go to the garmet district a couple blocks away from my work and buy a roll of synthetic leather fabric (really cheap fabric here) and have my wife make me a bunch of them. I think I might just do that.

http://pws.chartermi.net/~audioman/

Heh.

Josh -- saw the Audiogon ad for them, and frankly covers are a very useful idea. Call it a tweak, accessory, whatever -- they do make sense. Plenty of sense, long run, short run, whatever... Will look forward to see what yours turn out like...

Though I can imagine someone not being bright and putting one on some giant spaceheater of an amplifier.... Then as they melt over the outside of the amplifier, they will be marketed as "refinish your entire amplifier including the tubes in leather! Just turn ON your amplifier, then put on the cover on! Bake for 45 minutes! Voila!"

The thing that made me laugh when I first saw the ad on Audiogon was one of the first lines "CURRENTLY BEING REVIEWED BY SOME OF THE TOP AUDIOPHILE MAGAZINES AROUND THE WORLD"

We are talking about a cover here right?

I'm waiting for the technical comparisons of what am amplfier sounds like when you dump 15 pounds of sand on top of it, with and without the cover, then remove the cover, and then A/B.

"Surprisingly enough the tweak worked magic! The system protected from the 15 pounds of sand sounded considerable better! Who KNOWS the science they put into this product!"

Some poor reviewer is going to have to write a review article about them, while one their work buddies will get a $30,000 pair of speakers to review.

Chris