Upgrade Your CD's now!!! - Axiom Message Boards

Since some people hear have complained about their axiom's making their cd's sound bad. i have found this link to help you and anyone else who wants to upgrade there cd's.
I WANT TO UPGRADE MY CD's

Great find!

and here's an upgrade for your cables:
Magic Ring

What will they think of next? Ear upgrades?

If ya find the ear upgrade let me know

If you're dumb enough to buy these things... My god, I wonder how many sales these con artists have made.

And then there's the "Ultra Tweeter" which reportedly operates "above 1 GHz" in the "microwave band." Is it just me, or is the aperture on that piece of wooden crap TOO SMALL to permit microwaves to pass through it? These people should be put in jail.

You obviously didn't read carefully. "Rather than produce acoustic energy, as one might expect, Ultra Tweeters actually organize and improve the energy flow in signal conductors, making the audio system perform more efficiently and synergistically."

But microwaves could not actually emerge from the thing. How would it work, even if their theory was even marginally correct?

I like the elves in the M60s theory better.

Ahh, you miss the subtle genius. Microwaves do not emit from the thing. Microwaves emit from the conductors because the thing is there.

Try not to think about how microwaves improve your bass response.

I assume it uses the same non-contact technology as the intelligent chip (CD fixer-upper). Otherwise you wouldn't be able to emit microwaves from... ahem... wood.

Wood ?

I'm having an EXTREMELY difficult time keeping a straight face here.

No, it comes with "special cables." Presumably the dried vines needed to conduct said microwaves to the wood so it can induce these magical waves from the otherwise crappy sounding $10000 electronics you bought.

It also helps to add $400 wood knobs to the otherwise crappy sounding $6000 volume control you bought.

Seriously. How dumb are people?

Good point. I only assumed the conductors were metallic. You know what they say... "when you make an assumption you make an ass out of you and umption".

Name that movie.

Thanks, Jake et al, it's been a while since I've laughed this hard. Somehow I'd missed that site in my travels and I used to think that the Mapleshade site took the prize for audio scams, but Machina Dynamica blows it away.

Whoever thought up that snake oil product is a FOOL. Obviously, you need to design them so they're expendable and are only good for a about 20 uses. It'll keep the money rolling in.

Did you read the whole product description? It's only good for 10 uses.

I guess I didn't read it carefully enough. That guy is a genius!

Microwaves out of the super-duper Tweeter?

What happens when the cat jumps on top of your speaker and stops to lick itself?

Honey? Do you smell burning hair?

so i took apart all my axioms and was about to put the drivers in the microwave to increase the bass response. then it hit me! how stupid am i these things are aluminum. guess i will just have to nuke some wet paper towels and wrap the drivers in them.
Jake

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put the drivers in the microwave to increase the bass response

hehe.. put a few light bulbs in there next time.. its quite a show!!

bigjohn

Well, you guys can debunk this stuff all you want, but I did a little surfing on their site and found - "Brilliant Pebbles".

You can be sure I'll be calling them later today to see if I can work some kind of a quantity discount. The are a large number of friends and family on my Christmas list and they NEED to have this kind of enhancment to their audio experience. Plus, if I buy them now, it will allow for full break-in before Christmas and they can use them right out of the gift box and realize the full benefits.

I don't know what your experience has been, but I have been using my Pet Rocks for some time now. With them in the room, the LFE from my SVS seems... localized and undefined somehow. Once I remove them from the room, the LFE seems tight and defined, emanating from everywhere. On the other hand, the crystal pyramid I have on top of the TV (this is the recommended placement) seems to make my Axioms a bit harsh. I'm hoping the Brilliant Pebbles will help solve some of these abberations.

This would be SO MUCH easier if Avia would just step up and add the calibration information for these things to their DVD!

Re the Brilliant Pebbles, you can go to home depot or any gardening store and get the same pebbles for less. Or, try your neighbor's driveway.

Riffman - it was sarcasm / a joke.

The only folks buying those things have pebbles for brains.

$99 for a handful of garden rocks? PUH-LEEZ!!

and ya know the sad thing is that some people have actually bought this stuff... just goes to show you if you throw some scientific sounding mumbo-jumbo in there you can fleece a lot of people. what was it the P.T. Barnum said?

"Get off my foot you damn elephant!"

Ray, I was joking also. :-) and, its was sort of an allusion to buying your speaker cable at home depot...

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It also helps to add $400 wood knobs to the otherwise crappy sounding $6000 volume control you bought.

I will back up wooden knobs for one reason and one reason only...

I am the king of static electricity buildup.

I get shocked all winter long getting out of cars after sitting on polyester seats... I wear a static strap to bed... and I once (no joke) reset a DDR (digital disk recorder) by leaning close to it with my groin while reaching for a time base corrector in an upper rack. A lightning bolt shot out of my winkie and struck the road rack the DDR was in (or is it the other way around, like lightning goes from earth to the cloud?) and up popped the NT 4.0 boot up screen.

I felt like one of Godzilla's nemises - lightning bolts shooting out of my wedding tackle, striking down all in my path!

Bren R.

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and up popped the NT 4.0 boot up screen

so what else was "popping" up there bren?

i am rather 'staticy' myself, so i can feel your pain. i always get shocked when i slide out of the car seat, and then grab the door to push it closed.. BBZZZZZZZT! or like in office space, the door handles to the office after the elevator ride....BBZZZZZZT! and in our home office, where the printer is on the shelf above the monitor, when i reach up to grab a copy, and get my body too close to the monitor, BBZZZZT!. DAMMIT to hell.. i hate it.

but, you are definitely the master. i still got no sparks coming out of the 'little john'. YOU THA MAN!!!

bigjohn

Hmm. I wonder if I can save my PS2 gamesaves on that thing...

jr

bren
That has got to be the best post I've seen all month.

You need to drop by more often.

Bren,

I literally am wiping the tears from my eyes as I type this. That is the best post I've seen forever. Hopefully your nether region's electron accelerator has recovered by now.

I saw something on a TV show and I felt sorry for the park ranger they featured that has been hit by lightning 7 different times. He's getting off light.

Watching the ladies run from you as you approach them at a dance must be devastating! On the other hand, knowing you can plug yourself into a socket during an outage and keep little Johnny's Iron Lung operating until power is restored must give you some solace.

Nice to see you again my friend! How goes the new venture up there?

"Watching the ladies run from you as you approach them at a dance must be devastating!"

I'm not sure about that. I know a few ladys that would probably seek him out.

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Watching the ladies run from you as you approach them at a dance must be devastating!

Have you seen me? Have you heard my idea of a pick-up line? I believe the last one was "sorry, I wasn't staring at you all afternoon, I was just checking out my white balance on the screen behind you"... the fact I didn't ask to sniff her feet is the only thing that kept me from being maced (though, in my defense, we are friends now!)

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Nice to see you again my friend! How goes the new venture up there?

The old new venture - ehh, turned into exactly what I thought it would, all the wrong people making all the wrong decisions. Fresh-faced new kids hired for other reasons are stepping on the 10+ year veterans' toes about everything. Don't know what they're doing, but everyone wants to play with the cool toys.

On the plus side - been approached by another pro team offering complete creative control and offering me 8x the budget to do it with. Though I will have to move... hmm, let me th - where's my suitcase? *laughs*

Bren R.