Expensive audio and Snake Oil challenge at High End Munich!

Resolve and Golden Sound are both at Munich high end right now, and I have a challenge for you. Gentlemen, you need to split into teams, and you each have 30 minutes. You have to find me, one, the single most expensive item that you can, and two, the most snake oil thing you can possibly find. Whoever picks the best of each one will win today's challenge. Let's see what you can find. Most expensive thing, most expensive single item. And the stupidest worst most snake oil. Not necessarily worst but snake oil. It has to be a single thing, like most expensive single item. Okay. So. Not for itself, not like a plug adapter that's two grand. It is quarter past now. So we have to meet back here at quarter two. Alright, I have to people a message. I might have some inside lines. Let's see where we go. Alright, let's do it. My network. Okay. We're good for the network. The time starts now. Where are we going to start? We can't, like, the most expensive thing is not down on this floor. The only exception would be maybe it. And Sennheiser bring their HE1. No, they didn't bring it. Even if they did, that's only 70k. That's nothing. That's true. The HE1 is not nearly as expensive as a lot of things you're going to find at these shows. We can do better. We can do better. There's literally Dax that shit on that. Are you joining us? Of course. Sure. Who are you following? All right. You coming up? Pascale? Coming up? We need more eyes. There's more people. While these guys are hunting for some expensive gear, I want to tell you about Headphones.com, a place that could save you money on your high-end audio purchases. They have 365 day returns, super fast shipping, and some of the best customer support in the game. If you want to make the most out of your money on your next audio purchase, you should check out Headphones.com at the link in the video description. All right, so we should definitely go to the uh, so the Talos booth is definitely, yeah, should we just head there straight away just to try and get that note out? And if we Do we find anything else? Let's go, yeah. It looks like both of the boys have recruited some help. That's probably a good idea because they have a lot of ground to cover. What on earth is that? Exactly? I don't know. Earth Grounding Monster. Earth Grounding Monster. I am very curious as to what the thing in the middle is. Shall we ask that? Excuse me. Sure. What is the thing in the middle there? It's a power supply system. That's a power supply? Yes. Jesus. How- what is the, like, price of one of the- and actually I'm quite curious, what- what is the price of the big power supply? I don't even dare to say. So that one is 200,000. 200,000? Yeah, yeah. Cool, okay. And this here? Uh, this is 12,000. 12,000, okay. A little- a little more stomachable. Jesus Christ! That's huge! Golly, if Golden Sound may have won right off the bat. How much does this weigh? Let's say it takes three guys to put it up here. Yeah. What is this one? So this is the active power rack. Active power rack? Yeah, the niche rack comes with one of those devices and those devices can have... Um, can they engineer it? So how do you do this? This is a JDS. So once you connect it to power, the Surface port will generate different waves and different frequencies. It's going to harmonize with your device on top. Right. How much are the racks per platform? Well, since this is going to be launched next year or the fastest end of this year, we're still thinking about the same price. Alright, so I wasn't actually expecting to get 200,000 straight off the bat, so that's a pretty good start for pricing. I think we might be nailed with the active vibrating crack, whatever that was. That was something. Okay, Golden Sound finding something that's 200 grand right off the bat. That's pretty good. He might be able to win it just off that, but he's going to have to find something really good and snake oily too to satiate my giving of the points. Let's see where it resolves at. I already have an idea about what the most snake oily thing is. Alright, we're going to... what is this room? There's one in the back too. On the smoke detector there's one in the back. The quarks. The quarks are being contained. Okay, explain to me what that is. Wait, the real explanation or the fake explanation? Well, no, I don't even know what I'm looking at. What is it? It's obviously there to center the Qi, the audio Qi. Okay. Of the room. Have you ever heard of Qi? It's a concept. It's really like an emotional, spiritual concept. I'm not good with emotions. Yeah. This isn't a religion. This is important for me to learn. Yeah. Do you feel God? No. He's in the room right now. It's because of that. It traps him. His spirit. His soul is here. Because... No, I'm feeling like that. Well, it's not just that one. See, that's just the one from that. Oh, yeah. You can see it's handmade so you know it's working. Alright, oh my god. I didn't even see them. What is this? It's for the glass, right? Yeah, it looks pretty. Oh, I feel it. I feel it. Okay. It sounds so good. It looks like both teams have started off with something really, really strong. Golden Sound has found something expensive and Resolve and Z have found something that is very snake oily. Do you have any particular ideas for brands in terms of very expensive speakers? Colcal Grande Utopia, those are about 200k as well, so I'm surprised. Alright, so this is just in this atrium. Yeah, this show is huge, by the way. Dan D'Agostino, that might be a good show. Maybe something Italian. Something Italian. Okay. What's a good one then? This sounds Italian. That sounds very Italian. Should we have a look at that? C112. C112. That one there. It's right next to--it's together with Dan actually. Let's go there. Okay, right. Let's do the Dand Agostino run. Hang on, wait. I just gotta--this is like an honorable mention though. I think we saw a like a tick-tock of this one recently where it's got like waveguides. It looks like an exotic sea creature. And they were saying that like German engineers were literally going into mines to find the right copper. Oh, that's the mines one. Yeah, it's the mines one. Got it. In a cable. The signal from the amp to the speakers is clean like a stream. Do you think he's worth it? That's how conductors work. Okay, so we're not allowed in because they're doing some kind of conference, but if we can see it through the window, I reckon it counts. Oh, it's like, is it in a room? Wait, hang on. That might do it. That might do it. Is there a single item though? Yes, well, single like, it's different boxes, but it is one product. So I reckon that counts. Oh, 305. 305,000. 305, okay. All right, so we've upped another 100 grand, so that's pretty good. Okay, very good. Exactly, over three, there you go. Okay, you got better. Can we find something that tops 300K? I think we might actually struggle without being able to get into that room. No price. No price? No price. - The Coltrain Supreme Extreme. - Google it. - See if we're gonna... - Martin. - It's on a... - Isoacoustics isolator, so it must be good. I used a set of Isoacoustics isolators to isolate the isolators that were isolating from the isolators that were isolating from the desk. - Supreme One. - Supreme Extreme. - Supreme Extreme, which is that one. - Yeah. - Okay, so that's 380,000. - That's 390,000 prepared. - Almost half a million. - All right. - All right, okay, I think that's good for pricing. Let's try and find some more snake oil. See, I don't know if that counts, because that's per pair. We're talking single item. Is a pair of speakers a single item? The comments are going to have to decide on that one. It's a 90-euro wooden block. What does it do? Myrtle blocks. Myrtle blocks. What do they do? I don't know. These are nothing. I have no idea. Do you? Yeah. I mean, they're nice looking wooden blocks. Again, can someone Google it? Maybe there's an answer. What have you found? Soldering. Soldering. Polydeptic solder. I mean, that's like, it's expensive. Yeah, but they actually have a bunch of them. They're cable razors. They're risers, huh? Cable razors might do it. I still think that the Telos one's funnier. I think this palace thing is way, way... Yeah. Alright, well, we have five minutes, so we probably gotta get back to hole one. Hang on, so wait, what? We might have done better than we thought. 950,000 euro a set. 950,000 euros. What? Okay, we might need to find like a second source for that. How do we go up? - We got the million dollar round, - Russell, we got the one million dollar set of Wilson's in this one. - Okay, perfect, let's check it out. - Up there. - Wait, where? - In the back. - It's a three million dollar round, but the speaker's the one. - Yeah, single item, single item. - We got like five. - No, but we have to bring a single item, right? - Yeah. We're just curious, how much is the speaker system? Just the speaker? 318. 318,000. For just the speakers, not with any of the... Yes, the whole system is 800, 900,000. Okay. Here's the thing, I know for a fact, I was in Florida and there was a $600,000 pair speakers from London, an English company. If I could figure out the name of those they might be here and that would double our cost from this. I still think we could find more expensive. I definitely think we could find more expensive. Can we find over a million for a single item though? We may have hit the jackpot because $950,000. That's correct. $950,000. So I think we're pretty good. If we find something more expensive we'll tell you it's great for price. You can do that. What was that? So we found... That was the Martins, I forgot the model number. Martins, it was the something Coltrane. Oh no, it's the Taco Bell Supreme Extreme. Supreme Coltrane Taco Extreme. It's the Supreme Taco Extreme. I made fun of the name yesterday, but you know what helped me with this challenge? The best speakers I've ever known. But they had Coltrane in the name and I like jazz. It was Coltrane Supreme Extreme. Okay. I think it should be the Extreme Supreme, but they did it backwards. Yeah. So we gotta work with it. We're close to a million, right? 950. With the Isoacoustics Isolators, it'll be a million. You think? No, I don't think so. No? Okay. I think it's coming with. Okay, okay. Oh, it's packaged with it. It's packaged with it. A lot of these are packaged with. I can't wait to see the reaction when they realize they both picked the same set of speakers. Uh, excuse me. Recruiting at the price. What time do you call this? Recruiting at the price. Recruiting at the price. with the most expensive one. What was your number? Wait, are you over or under a million? Oh, we're under a million. We're under a million. Yeah. But barely. Oh, okay, you might have won then. 950,000. What was 950,000? The Martin speakers that are... It's ours. What's the name? The Supreme... The Supreme... The Supreme Extreme. Oh, we picked it. We picked it. We picked it. Okay. Okay, so that's... You both get points for that. That's totally void. That's funny. Okay, so that's the snow. So now it's all up to the snake oil. You seem very very confident. I don't know... Do you have a picture of yours? We've got video of it. We do have. But I can explain it and it's still hilarious. We can't explain ours. Are you ready? I am ready. How do I reveal this? There was a room with one, two, three, four, five, six of these babies in it. Okay, I am starting to get nervous now. What the hell is that? No, not only that. Okay, I'm concerned. It had acoustic stickers. Wait, one, two, three, four. Is this- Look at that, dead center. Is this from Taylor? In the middle of the room. And then there was one in the back on the smoke detector, because that's where you need to have it. And then- What is it? The stickers. Look at the masking tape. Masking tape to the back window. Oh my god. Like, it was, and it was, they were serious. It was texture, I touched them, and the sound, the whole room changed the room. The whole room changed. Yeah, everything changed. And it was just, it was no explanation, it was masking taped on there. I'm gonna contend that this can't win the snake oil because you don't know what it is supposed to do. Oh no no I know exactly what it does. He asked me and I explained it. Oh what is it supposed to do? There is spiritual energy in all of us and what that does is it steals approximately 5.9% of it every time someone walks in out of the room. So as the room gets more and more busy the room just starts sounding more and more... You get the feeling that the... God. Is this actually what they said? They... we didn't speak to them. So you don't know what it does? We were afraid to get punched. That sounds very snake-off. He found it. What is it? Oh, he found it. It's what he calls an acoustic resonator. Okay, yeah. That makes sense. I played Half-Life 2. The resonance cascade. Okay, yeah. Okay. I think we might have won the snake-off one. What? How? After that? So we went to the Telos audio booth. Of course. Famed for their quantum sticker proficiency. They have... mains power supply. Oh no, that was where it was going to take us next. But they also then we had something which was funnier. This is like they have their racks and so then they have this which emits different quantum frequencies that harmonize with your audio gear to make it sound better. Wait, wait, if we put if we put our things on your thing, what happens? Oh no, no one can handle how good that will sound. Like that's just beyond human communication. You will ascend to godhood if that Everything becomes from kilohertz to megahertz. I think this is better than the resonate. We'll have to let DMS decide. We'll have to let DMS decide. Oh, that's tough. I mean, the thing that Z found with Resolve was really, really strange and esoteric. It definitely doesn't do anything. But the thing that Cameron found just reeks of filthy, nasty, deceptive oil. As much as I love both of these, I think that I have to give the point to Golden Sound on this one. But that's not the final deciding factor. The final deciding factor is what you guys say down in the comments. So which of the guys won this challenge? Was it Resolve and Z with their strange little room resonators and acoustic stickers? Or was it Golden Sound with a $200,000 power conditioner and a rack piece of equipment that emits quantum frequencies to synchronize with your gear. Guys, you all absolutely nailed this challenge, and I think that's time to wrap up this video. Enjoy the rest of Munich, and I'll catch you guys soon. If you liked this video, leave a like down below. Comment, let me know what you want to see in the future. If you want to get active in the community, you can have the Discord or the forum, both available with the link in the video description. As always, don't forget to stick around. Subscribe for more videos like this in the future. Till next one, guys. Peace.