Yes, there are some weird notions in Audio-land. As another example, perhaps more absurd have a look at:

http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/product.html

This guy, Peter Belt, is completely serious, has been around since late 80's (or at least that's when I first heard of him.

Nothing to do with digital, just thought I'd take off-topic further off-topic

Cas.