Bybee
Posted by: JeremyB on 12 June 2003
My faith in the forum is getting scary as I ask all you helpful people...
Have you heard of Bybee? A geezer wot does soundproof windows (a sad story which will hopefully soon have a happy ending) came round to my house yesterday and when he saw my kit he launched into (for some reason) a story about deep sea underwater microphones and other strange things and was singing the praises of Bybee products. From what I can glean from google searches, there are things called quantum purifiers the effects of which sound quite musical, naim-like and PRATful. Anyone investigate these things in the context of a Naim system? (except, of course, I bet they don't make DIN plug versions).
A link for the uninitiated:
http://www.bybeetech.com/Any enlightenment appreciated.
Posted on: 12 June 2003 by garyi
No need to buy anything from such a cheap looking website.
Posted on: 12 June 2003 by JeremyB
Garyi,
ok, but still interested to hear if anyone tried it. Notice that there are no Naim components listed, but lots of others.
I remember Julian describing almost gleefully how the green pens, laser focussing attahemnts etc actually made the CDS sound worse and wondered if thee same would happen here.
Posted on: 12 June 2003 by garyi
Thats a concern, because it implies these types od devises actually do something!
I have some nordost antistatic spray here, 50 quid to you sir, give me a break!
Posted on: 13 June 2003 by BigH47
I believe they use these devices in the Heizenberg compensators in Star ships matter transfer equipment.
"Better than $20,000 worth of speaker cable" sold it for me.
Howard
Posted on: 13 June 2003 by Matthew T
Have done some quantum stuff at university but not enough to fully understand what the blurb is about, I can say that it is quite posible that these things could be on to something but whether the effect is actually enough to have a significant difference I don't know.
May have to dig out those uni notes!
Matthew
Posted on: 13 June 2003 by Martin Payne
quote:
When subjected to Bybee’s high-temperature near-superconductive material, electrons tend to join in a beneficial manner, increasing the velocity of propagation (VP) by forming what are known as Cooper’s Pairs (one spin-up electron joined with a spin-down).
OK, I'm no quantum physicist, but...
It's my understanding that if the material forms Cooper pairs it will be really Superconducting, not "near-superconducting". Scientists were really chuffed when they managed to achieve superconductivity in materials that didn't need to be cooled in liquid helium, IE they worked above -240C. I believe that fairly practible materials hove been demonstrated with s/c at liquid nitrogen temperatures, about -200C.
If these guys could make a genuinely superconductive material at room temperatures they would be overnight billionaires, and wouldn't be trying to squeeze a few bucks out of hifi nerds.
As oer the disclaimer above, I stand to be corrected, but...
cheers, Martin
E-mail:- MartinPayne at Dial.Pipex.com
Posted on: 15 June 2003 by woody
It strikes me that with a few exceptions, people in the US and Canada are more obsessed with mains (leads, purifying etc) than us in the UK and Europe...can it be that us Europeans have better mains or do we have worse ears?
Posted on: 16 June 2003 by JeremyB
quote:
It strikes me that with a few exceptions, people in the US and Canada are more obsessed with mains (leads, purifying etc) than us in the UK and Europe...can it be that us Europeans have better mains or do we have worse ears?
Woody,
Neither, I think it is the promise of technical know-how and the desire for a "magic bullet" which is at play here.
