Cal's Bybee experience

[DF96]

When working with Mile' Nestorovic back in the late 80's he obtained some silver tubes filled with Mercury, to be used as speaker cables.

There is your mistake: you should have used platinum tubes. Silver is too reactive. Also, mercury is known to have excellent signal storage properties (it was used for this in early computers) so you should have had some mechanism to remove the old signals.

 

[Zeta4]

Ah that takes me back to when as a young engineer I worked on LEO II an early valve
computer which had 6 feet long mercury delay line tubes to store 4 x 44 bit words
which meant a lot of tubes for 2Kwords. We replaced them with a ferrite core memory as they were too temperature sensitive.

Didnt think to use them as speaker cables. Doh!

 

[PMA]

There is your mistake: you should have used platinum tubes. Silver is too reactive. Also, mercury is known to have excellent signal storage properties (it was used for this in early computers) so you should have had some mechanism to remove the old signals.

Signal cancellation circuit is needed here, for the cleanest sound.

 

[miklos]

I don't know why I am reading this thread, but for the "quantum foam" it was worth.

 

[scott wurcer]

I can say no more, since these sorts of forces are of great interest to people who pull the strings, and they don't want the scales to fall from people's eyes. I expect that the usual scoffers will scoff.

Particularly good, must capture that edge of paranoia and conspiracy.

 

[Cal Weldon]

This is no longer about my Bybee experience so it's closed.