High-end Swiss audio visual maker Goldmund has announced a suitably exorbitant Blu-ray player, yours for just $17,000. The spec sheet is almost irrelevant in this price category. We know by now that no amount of bells and whistles can impress the true audiophile: Instead you need an ephemeral and untestable sprinkling of fairy dust. Goldmund doesn't disappoint, and its claims for the Eidos 20 BD might be as full of holes as the country's national cheese.
First, the power supply (named AC-Curator) will somehow "dramatically improve picture and sound stability and dynamics". Next up, physical vibration, which Golmund thinks can somehow affect a digital signal:
[T]he "Mechanical Grounding" construction which removes from the player mechanism spurious vibrations blurring the Video signal and increasing Jitter.
Unfortunately, the circuit does nothing to remove spurious CaPital letters.
Product page [Goldmund via Crave]
