Best Buy employees typically assume they're talking to a clueless consumer who knows nothing about electrical theory. As someone who has a clue, I find Best Buy employees say the funniest things.
A nearby Best Buy has a surge protector/filter thingy made by Monster Cable on display. The case has a little knob thing to let select between "direct power" and "filtered power". It has a speaker to demonstrate the noise and a LCD to show amount of noise in numbers that have no units. The thing sounds like an AM radio that isn't tuned in along with a high number on LCD when you have the knob set to "direct power". Almost silent and a low value on LCD with the knob in "filtered power mode" It even changes sound as you get closer or walk away from it which is why I think it's an AM radio of some sort.
Anyways, I asked this sales guy if I can see inside the retail setup saying that I wanted to see how it's detecting the noise.
The case couldn't be opened, but the sales guy goes on and on and on that this $200 overpriced surge protector in metal casing will make a differnece in how my system sounds. He then says it has to be used for about 100 hrs to be really effective claiming the cable needs a break in. I said that's total non-sense. He restates that more you use it, the better your system will sound. He tries to reason his way through with a lecture on chemistry of copper that is utterly irrelevant by telling me copper has 32 electrons and they're all over the place until you start using the cable.
All I was asking was to have a look in the display case and this sales guy pulls this totally irrelevant non-sense out his butt. I couldn't help but laugh as I walked away from the area.
The sales people at Best Buy is so funny, because they restate the marketing claims they've been taught and add some non sense they've pulled out of their butt, but have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Best Buy idiots are going to have a heart attack over it, could anyone give me a good argument why my would be speaker cable wouldn't be up to par?
Would be a great speaker cable
If I cut this in half and remove the ends and attach banana plugs or spades extremely well either crimping or soldering, I'll have two pairs of great quality speaker cable. I personally think they have more fashion designers to design the cable and marketing major graduates to promote non existant myths.
Compared to an equal length of high end 12 gauge speaker cables, I can't find one thing that would disqualify mine from the contest if you could excuse the scruffy looking yellow jacket.
It's even UL rated for up to 105 degree C
A nearby Best Buy has a surge protector/filter thingy made by Monster Cable on display. The case has a little knob thing to let select between "direct power" and "filtered power". It has a speaker to demonstrate the noise and a LCD to show amount of noise in numbers that have no units. The thing sounds like an AM radio that isn't tuned in along with a high number on LCD when you have the knob set to "direct power". Almost silent and a low value on LCD with the knob in "filtered power mode" It even changes sound as you get closer or walk away from it which is why I think it's an AM radio of some sort.
Anyways, I asked this sales guy if I can see inside the retail setup saying that I wanted to see how it's detecting the noise.
The case couldn't be opened, but the sales guy goes on and on and on that this $200 overpriced surge protector in metal casing will make a differnece in how my system sounds. He then says it has to be used for about 100 hrs to be really effective claiming the cable needs a break in. I said that's total non-sense. He restates that more you use it, the better your system will sound. He tries to reason his way through with a lecture on chemistry of copper that is utterly irrelevant by telling me copper has 32 electrons and they're all over the place until you start using the cable.
All I was asking was to have a look in the display case and this sales guy pulls this totally irrelevant non-sense out his butt. I couldn't help but laugh as I walked away from the area.
The sales people at Best Buy is so funny, because they restate the marketing claims they've been taught and add some non sense they've pulled out of their butt, but have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Best Buy idiots are going to have a heart attack over it, could anyone give me a good argument why my would be speaker cable wouldn't be up to par?
Would be a great speaker cable
If I cut this in half and remove the ends and attach banana plugs or spades extremely well either crimping or soldering, I'll have two pairs of great quality speaker cable. I personally think they have more fashion designers to design the cable and marketing major graduates to promote non existant myths.
Compared to an equal length of high end 12 gauge speaker cables, I can't find one thing that would disqualify mine from the contest if you could excuse the scruffy looking yellow jacket.
It's even UL rated for up to 105 degree C