Snake oil for your cables!

silkstone · Feb 23, 2020

Chord Company’s ChordOhmic fluid promises improved cable signal transfer

Essentially by creating a greater contact area on the connection

www.whathifi.com

Because $500 for a USB cable wasn't an obvious enough ripoff, companies are literally now making snake oil for your cables.

TheoneandonlyMrK · Feb 23, 2020

Take my money, I'm putting it on all my cables ,cheap too my electric will flow out the plug smoother, might improve the colours on my hdmi too.
Wonder if it would fix the O2 sensor on my car?

Athlonite · Feb 23, 2020

A fool and their money are soon parted I'll guarantee you that some twat will buy this shite because they're one of those ignorant tech snobs who have no idea

micropage7 · Feb 23, 2020

So they advertise it like thermal paste that fill the gap and improve the transfer between 2 media

Athlonite · Feb 23, 2020

micropage7 said:
So they advertise it like thermal paste that fill the gap and improve the transfer between 2 media

bit like saying gold plated connectors offer superior signal quality for a digital signal it's all just a crock of shit

silkstone · Feb 23, 2020

Talking about the current being the signal just highlight how little these people know about audio.

TheLostSwede · Feb 23, 2020

Athlonite said:
bit like saying gold plated connectors offer superior signal quality for a digital signal it's all just a crock of shit

Gold plated cables do tend to corrode less though, but that's about it.

As for this snake oil :roll:

Apocalypsee · Feb 23, 2020

OK I didnt expect they using oil for audio, I'm not surprised if they use snake to make it.

silentbogo · Feb 23, 2020

Well, either their own press-release got edited for clarification, or everyone on the net missed the mark a bit.
Chord specificaly denoted that it's basically a fancy overpriced contact cleaner, not a magic "audio enhancing miracle liquid".

Chord Company come clean with ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid at Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2020 - The Chord Company

ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid (hi-fi contact cleaner) This contact treatment was initially developed by an industrial chemist and Andante Largo in Japan and consists of a Polish and Polymer. After testing over 500 different variations, the final formulation was selected. It outperformed the...

www.chord.co.uk

Jose Jeswin · Feb 23, 2020

It reminds me of something...something familiar...

silentbogo · Feb 23, 2020

Jose Jeswin said:
It reminds me of something...something familiar...

Yep, that's actually pretty close analog, only >10x more expensive )))

flmatter · Feb 23, 2020

Jose Jeswin said:
It reminds me of something...something familiar...

As a mechanic that was a BS post. I wish people would stop posting fud just to post something. Permatex has gasket shellac that is amazing and there is pipe dope for threads when normal thread tape does not work or something harder is needed. @silentbogo it is in no way a close analog stop supporting BS when you don't know what it is.

Back to OP's post yes that is crazy and as it was pointed fools will soon be parted with their cash.

8BitZ80 · Feb 23, 2020

200 pounds for a 10mL bottle, get out of town.

EarthDog · Feb 23, 2020

Finally... when someone at this forum says snake oil.... it's actually snake oil! Where's Trickson?!

freeagent · Feb 23, 2020

Hope he didn't slip on any delving into the world of HiFi :eek:

xtreemchaos · Feb 23, 2020

I don't need any, ive some Hens teeth paste which make my fps double

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DeathtoGnomes · Feb 23, 2020

its doesnt glow in the dark and doesnt have sparklies in it nor does it have stink-pretty flavoring, so no I'll pass.

silentbogo · Feb 23, 2020

flmatter said:
@silentbogo it is in no way a close analog stop supporting BS when you don't know what it is.

No need to make assumptions when you don't even feel the amount of irony in my words.
There's no way in the world I'm gonna side with a company that sells a generic polymerized conductive goo for $200. Just clarifying that the clickbait title is wrong as f#$k.
If you haven't noticed, I don't support blind-monkey copy-pasting either.

silkstone · Feb 23, 2020

silentbogo said:
Well, either their own press-release got edited for clarification, or everyone on the net missed the mark a bit.
Chord specificaly denoted that it's basically a fancy overpriced contact cleaner, not a magic "audio enhancing miracle liquid".

Chord Company come clean with ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid at Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2020 - The Chord Company

ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid (hi-fi contact cleaner) This contact treatment was initially developed by an industrial chemist and Andante Largo in Japan and consists of a Polish and Polymer. After testing over 500 different variations, the final formulation was selected. It outperformed the...

www.chord.co.uk

Where does it say that it is basically a very expensive contact cleaner in their press release?

IMO, they are intentionally vague about their claims, knowing full well that people will read the 'contact enhancing product' as 'Audio Enhancing'. As well as making vague claims that can be misinterpreted such as 'it starts to work at very low voltage thresholds' and 'still significantly outperforming an identical (but untreated) pair of cables built at the same time'. Being a UK company (and still in the EU) i think that they have to be a lot more careful about wording their claims due to legislation on false advertising.

As for making the title click-bait. 'Snake-oil' was literally the first thing that popped into my head when reading the 'review' and thought it was kinda funny as well as summarizing the usefulness of this product (at any price over a few $$) pretty neatly.

silentbogo · Feb 23, 2020

@silkstone , and I quote:

ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid (hi-fi contact cleaner)

bonehead123 · Feb 23, 2020

Hummm....snake oil....yep I'll take 312,579.63458 bottles, like , yesterday...cause I mean, really, like you never know when it will come in handy....

n.O.t.. :roll:

..

R-T-B · Feb 23, 2020

Athlonite said:
bit like saying gold plated connectors offer superior signal quality for a digital signal it's all just a crock of shit

It means something for rca connectors and other analog signals. For digital? Heh, good luck with that.

Refering to gold plating. Have my doubts this fluid does anything.

EarthDog said:
Finally... when someone at this forum says snake oil.... it's actually snake oil! Where's Trickson?!

Heck, if you really want snake oil, common garter snakes around here produce an oily musk when upset. I used to collect them as a kid. Made your hands reek and it was defintely some kind of oil. Never came out of your clothes.

I should bottle some up and sell it for epic profits. Mind the stink. Just need maybe an industrial shaker and toss some garters in it. Don't tell the aspca.

flmatter said:
As a mechanic that was a BS post. I wish people would stop posting fud just to post something. Permatex has gasket shellac that is amazing and there is pipe dope for threads when normal thread tape does not work or something harder is needed. @silentbogo it is in no way a close analog stop supporting BS when you don't know what it is.

Back to OP's post yes that is crazy and as it was pointed fools will soon be parted with their cash.

He was saying it would probably work equally good for audio (ie not) for 10x less money dude. He wasn't saying it doesn't work for it's intended purpose.

Grog6 · Feb 23, 2020

This is for the crowd that buys silver speaker wire because it "sounds better".

Or "Pre burned in cables" for that smoother sound.

For those who thought I was joking:

http://www.increcable.com/kryptonite-hd-usb-2.htm

flmatter · Feb 24, 2020

R-T-B said:
He was saying it would probably work equally good for audio (ie not) for 10x less money dude. He wasn't saying it doesn't work for it's intended purpose.

Then I missed the sarcasm and @silentbogo as well..... oops

silkstone · Feb 24, 2020

R-T-B said:
It means something for rca connectors and other analog signals. For digital? Heh, good luck with that.

The surface area on the RCA connectors means that the connector type really shouldn't add any significant resistance. Even if it did, I doubt it would make a difference to the 'quality' of an analog signal. It'd be much more important to have some sort of shielded wires. Even then, there are much more important things to buy before shelling out $500 for a uber-quality wiring.

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Snake oil for your cables!

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