Snakeoil Co. - Kemp Elektroniks (2024)

So while doing some research/browsing the internet I accidentally stumbled upon a company which dedicates its entire existence to producing snakeoil products, and from what I can see has actually created entire new categories of products that audiophiles must have.

http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/

Some of the more interesting products:

• http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/en/91...oducts/shunt-conditioners/fostac-maxiimus-p16
• http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/en/894/kemp-elektroniks/products/accessoires/ionizair
• http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/en/251/kemp-elektroniks/products/accessoires/cylindric-fuse-cartridge
• http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/en/94...oducts/line-conditioners/fostac-maxiimus-m100
• http://www.kempelektroniks.nl/en/919/kemp-elektroniks/products/accessoires/high-end-novum-pmr

They all look interesting to me although not convincing, but it's the obscene cost I object to.

Guess I'll just have to find a brass/bronze plate and experiment some with my center stage for that last one. In my experience having anything reflective in the center stage is determental, but absortive materials are welcome.

Very nice systems and room treatments in the gallery section, I've been looking at audio racks and this is goldmine.

https://highend-electronics.com/pages/highendnovum-pmr-family-photo-gallery

I ran into the below PDF last week while researching turntable platter materials, could be related?

Mechanical and Damping Properties of Silicon Bronze Alloys for Music Applications

Abstract. An alloy for musical instruments should have high enough strength, hardness, specific elastic properties and low damping capacity. The high tin bronze alloys with composition 20-22 wt.% Sn has good acoustical properties, which is capable of producing long-lasting slowly damping vibrations but there is brittle materials. Cracks and fracture may appear on these materials. The study on mechanical and acoustic characteristic becomes the primary consideration in determining the new material as a musical instrument.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of silicon fraction of Cu-(2.5-7.5) wt. % Si on mechanical and acoustical properties of bronze alloys for music instruments.........................

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I sincerely thought the thread was about Synergistics Research or Nordost or ... Transparent Cable or MIT Câbles or ...

There is a company out there selling $15,000 USB cable. For those who don’t know, there exist speaker cable costing over $ 50,000 for a 8-foot pair.

Not only a snakeoil vendor, but also a fraud, beware.
I tried out their USB Isolator, which didn't work, returned it and never got my money back.

Edit: typo

Zoomer said:

Not only a snakeoil vendor, but also a fraud, beware.
I tried out their ISB Isolator, which didn't work, returned it and never got my money back.

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You lost your money the moment you decided to try it.

Zoomer said:

Not only a snakeoil vendor, but also a fraud, beware.
I tried out their ISB Isolator, which didn't work, returned it and never got my money back.

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My default browser doesn't let me go to their website. Probably about all I need to know.

g29 said:

They have some very cool products way ahead of their time. I think the last product I saw from them were some sort of tachyon field generators. Who wouldn't want a couple of those ???

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I saw something like that at the website as I recall, something about aligning tachyons at the power panel?

Tachyon
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

A tachyon is any hypothetical particle that can travel faster than the speed of light. The term "tachyon" was coined by Gerald Feinberg in 1967.[1]
Most scientists do not believe that tachyons exist. Einstein's theory of special relativity states that nothing can accelerate faster than the speed of light, while tachyons are theorized to be constantly traveling faster than the speed of light. If a tachyon did exist, it would have an imaginary number as its mass.

In September 2011, it was reported that a tau neutrino had traveled faster than the speed of light in a major release by CERN; however, later updates from CERN on the OPERA project indicate that the faster-than-light readings were resultant from "a faulty element of the experiment's fibre optic timing system".[2]

In modern physics the term "tachyon" often refers to imaginary mass fields rather than to faster-than-light particles.[3][4] Such fields have come to play an important role in modern physics.

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Never underestimate the power of the imagination - I suppose.

10 Einstein Quotes to Fire Up Your Creativity
https://www.inc.com/annabel-acton/10-einstein-quotes-to-fire-up-your-creativity.html

1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

10. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

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I think some of the Kemp products should have remained as hypothetical as the elements they contend to master.

That said, sometimes one has to just build something to see what it does, then come up with the explanation for why it does or does not work.

My problem here is that these are not just DIY experiments entertaining their inventor. However given that I have not experienced any of these product first hand it is unfair to dismiss them out of hand.

I mean, if someone came out with a square wheel I'd at least want to attempt to push it down the road rather than just laugh. Under the right circ*mstances and the right road, who knows, maybe it would work.

Square wheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel

A square wheel can roll smoothly if the ground consists of evenly shaped inverted catenaries of the right size and curvature.

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I'm surprised they don't sell these on their site:

Fluffy said:

I'm surprised they don't sell these on their site:

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What does this video mean? I don't quite understand.

JohnYang1997 said:

What does this video mean? I don't quite understand.

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Take off from the original... Spoof...

The guy in the video was a voiceover talent for technical films, and he seldom understood what he was talking about, so he wrote up this spoof...

Pretty funny

Newemind, they will be under water in a short while.

..pardon, bad type of humour.. as are most of their products/prices as well

JohnYang1997 said:

What does this video mean? I don't quite understand.

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That's the whole point of the joke. those shady audio companies use all kind of made-up language to gaslight the reader into believing their crap can do magic.

Fluffy said:

I'm surprised they don't sell these on their site:

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Did y'all notice that anti-mirror-imaged loudspeakers in the background?
(either two lefts or two rights)

kach22i said:

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Square wheel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wheel

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So -- having found this very cool, I thought I'd do the very cool thing of sharing this (with proper attribution, of course!) with my college maths professor son (you know, to reinforce for him how cool, hip, and happening I am, maths-wise).

His response:

This just tells me I can put any collection of crap in a box, write some flowery prose about what it “does” and sell it for obscene amounts of money to fools, aka audiophiles. Isn’t this just con men preying on the weak minded? Why are they not in prison? This is absolutely no different than any number of schemes featured on American Greed. What makes this legal? I’d truly like to know...

Martin