These little gems should look familiar to anyone who's ever installed a Pelco environmental housing (and probably others, as well):
At least bushings serve a purpose, even though the cited product is obviously an audiophile scam. Here's a truly useless piece of "audiophile" junk:
oh yeah, cable elevators. use em all the time. great stuff/
My uncle has an extensive collection of antique glass and porcelain insulators from old telegraph lines... maybe I should try those.
Actually, I first saw these at the Las Vegas CES show quite a few years ago. I picked one up and it was just an insulator for high tension electric lines. The company had ground a concave slot in the top to hold the wires in place. They were asking for something like $350 for a set of six or eight.
Here's another one. A security client of mine back in CT bought a used pair of Marin-Logan speakers from a store in Hartford. I was installing the alarm in his F.L. Wright home (one of a very few in the area). The speakers had been sorely abused. The previous owner had ruined the woofers. He asked me what I thought and, ever the diplomat, I said they sounded like s**t. I told him they needed new drivers.
The guy went down to the Stereo Shop (actual name) on Farmington Ave with these ruined speakers, asking for a refund. Instead they sold him a pair of new speaker cables the size of garden hoses. The next day I came in to finish the alarm installation and the guy was sitting there listening to his crappy sounding, beat up speakers with $800 cables connected to them. He asked if I didn't think the speakers sounded more "open". Phlbbbt!
A trait they no doubt picked up from his wallet.
The thing is this guy was actually a bit of a crook himself. He ran a chain of rent-to-own furniture stores that charge usurious interest rates in the form of "lease - purchase" agreements. His stuff was crap, too. He had a decent audio system -- Macintosh amp and such. He really got taken for a ride on those speakers and the cables though. You'd think a guy like that would spot a con job a mile off. He'd be doubly ticked if he listened to my system. I have Martin-Logan speakers which I bought new and they're fabulous.
More of a purpose than you serve, an obvious alarm DIYer scammer.
Yet you post here looking for those exact same people, so dumb as to fall for a piece of crap like you (and your website(s)) and STILL have enough money to purchase equipment.
Julian
Braggert.
Julian
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