7th April 2005, 3:00 PM
They specifically said sound quality though. And honestly, considering how often companies can promote worthless pseudoscience, I really don't feel all that funny taking them to mean what they said.
As for volume, that all depends on the device. Newer devices, not a chance. The voltage is very specifically limited. Older devices, with boosting parts that take a direct electrical feed without any sort of control, those I would buy. Problem there is they are designed for a certain power, so when a lot more goes through the boosting circuit, it could sort of "wash out" the circuit with the signal it's meant to boost, just a bit, and so the volume may be upped, but at a cost of sound quality.
As for volume, that all depends on the device. Newer devices, not a chance. The voltage is very specifically limited. Older devices, with boosting parts that take a direct electrical feed without any sort of control, those I would buy. Problem there is they are designed for a certain power, so when a lot more goes through the boosting circuit, it could sort of "wash out" the circuit with the signal it's meant to boost, just a bit, and so the volume may be upped, but at a cost of sound quality.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)