One way to make expensive speaker cables!

[sam9]

Steve is a refugee from a forum that shall remain nameless.

As an aside to that and as something not un-related to this thread, I'm reminded of two of Doug Self's amusing propositions (paraphrased because I'm too lazy to look them up) 1 In high-end audio, price and performance are inversely related and 2 the more widely repeated an "audio truth" the less likely it is to be verified.

[rwagter]

Please make him stop !!!, the laughing ios hurting to much !!!

Ralph

ps it would of course be better if MIT would use real wood to put their zobel-network in and a special wood comes to mind......

[jam]

No! No!....................................not that Rosewood from Brazil again.

[Steve Eddy]

Originally posted by karma
lol nice where can i get one

If I still had the original (which I actually did make from scratch), I'd he happy to send it to you. But alas, I tossed it out a while back.

se

[karma]

snake oil

[Steve Eddy]

Originally posted by jam
No! No!....................................not that Rosewood from Brazil again.

That's BOLIVIA! Not Brazil!

se

[Steve Eddy]

Originally posted by drewd
In that vein, in this month's Stereophile, Art Dudley reviewed a couple of the Audioquest cables with the batteries - you know, the ones that create a DC field to bias the dialectric so that it will be correctly charged for the audio signal.

He called a spade a spade.

Remarkably, the manufacturer's comments at the end of the issue ran to a page and a half.

Yeah. Just finsied reading it earlier. Quite a lot of ** in Bill Low's reply. He demonstrated he really hasn't a clue what a dielectric is when he said "The technical specifications permittivity and permeability describe these dielectric paramters."

Art did a wonderful job with the review I thought.

se

[jam]

Steve,

Sorry..............................

[sam9]

' "he really hasn't a clue what a dielectric is when he said "The technical specifications permittivity and permeability describe these dielectric paramters." '

You get bettter techno-babble watching TOST "The Original Star Trek".


BTW, when creating that DC field, does the + end go toward signal source or signal destination? Curious minds want to know.

[drewd]

Originally posted by sam9
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BTW, when creating that DC field, does the + end go toward signal source or signal destination? Curious minds want to know.

Allegedly, the positive end is connected to a wire running alongside the center conductor and the negative end is connected to the shield. Clever people will notice that there is no connection between the shield and the wire. I don't remember which is supposed to be which (chuckle).

He tried to use an analogy of a magnetic field when he explained how this, um, static DC field biased the dielectric. About the best thing that I can say about his reply was that it was like a train wreck - absolutely wretched, but so riveting that I couldn't help but watch.



-Drew