Why don't they also sell gold plated wire snips to prevent 'contamination' from inferior materials like high carbon steel?
It just adds proof to the old saying - a fool and his money are easily parted.
It just adds proof to the old saying - a fool and his money are easily parted.
Well the crazy setting over at Stereophile just got turned up a notch or two
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This Richard Blade person has accused a poster named Sergio of being also myself it seems.
😀 so he must be reading this forum so.......hey Richard, how about joining in and making it interesting or do you just troll on Stereophile?
Also to make it even more funny a ChrisS is accusing Sergio of being a former poster named George. He thinks that since Sergio typed the name George instead of Georgie(which is what ChrisS calls George) then that's proof that he really is George. Yeah they sort of lost me on that one too but isn't George who the former poster was anyway and it's shown all over the threads there?
Crazy times folks.
Oh and Atkinson still hasn't agreed or even mentioned taking part in a blind test using Ted's devices that is being set up by another poster who invited them to partake. I guess when an actual test is going to be done that Stereophile won't be the one to do it 🙄 Be sure to post this link too Richard Blade, maybe my real name is Edward Snowden and it's all a conspiracy.😛
Synergistic Research?s HFT and FEQ Transform Bose Wave Radio | Stereophile.com
This Richard Blade person has accused a poster named Sergio of being also myself it seems.
😀 so he must be reading this forum so.......hey Richard, how about joining in and making it interesting or do you just troll on Stereophile?Also to make it even more funny a ChrisS is accusing Sergio of being a former poster named George. He thinks that since Sergio typed the name George instead of Georgie(which is what ChrisS calls George) then that's proof that he really is George. Yeah they sort of lost me on that one too but isn't George who the former poster was anyway and it's shown all over the threads there?
Crazy times folks.Oh and Atkinson still hasn't agreed or even mentioned taking part in a blind test using Ted's devices that is being set up by another poster who invited them to partake. I guess when an actual test is going to be done that Stereophile won't be the one to do it 🙄 Be sure to post this link too Richard Blade, maybe my real name is Edward Snowden and it's all a conspiracy.😛
Comics like that exist purely to make money by encouraging the public to buy the stuff people pay them to promote. Reality plays a very small part in anything they print, the bottom line is their priority at all times. Not worth a minute of your life IMO.
Gold plating
I'll be happy to gold plate most anything you like!
For the right price, that is....
John L
I'll be happy to gold plate most anything you like!
For the right price, that is....
John L
They should use titanium for the connectors, you must not use iron tools on titanium or you get corrosion and embrittlement
Jason Victor Serinus knows what is important in an audio system
"It’s essential not to overlook three other main contributors to the sound: the new Critical Mass Soto Voce audio rack ($7000), a complete array of Nordost Valhalla 2 audio cables ($112,500), and a complete Nordost QRT power treatment system ($10,900). Expensive? Yes. Heavenly sounding? Absolutely! "
"It’s essential not to overlook three other main contributors to the sound: the new Critical Mass Soto Voce audio rack ($7000), a complete array of Nordost Valhalla 2 audio cables ($112,500), and a complete Nordost QRT power treatment system ($10,900). Expensive? Yes. Heavenly sounding? Absolutely! "
Good lord! How in the world does anyone afford those?
I paid less for a 3 bedroom 2400sq-ft house!
I paid less for a 3 bedroom 2400sq-ft house!
What I would like to know is. How does a dam fool end up having that amount money to blow on shelves, bit's of wire and boxes of dubious promise.
I must be doing something wrong 🙁
There are subtle differences.
Bank robbers used to rob banks, now they own banks and rob us 🙄
btw, nice cat brianco, do you own it? or is it more like our two cats, they own us 😀
Bank robbers used to rob banks, now they own banks and rob us 🙄
btw, nice cat brianco, do you own it? or is it more like our two cats, they own us 😀
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How so? Mine make small signals larger without appreciably altering them, which I thought was the function of an amplifier.
I have one of those, needed it because it exactly fits their family of wire termination sleeves (which, of course, are also gold plated 😉 ).
After much use I can report that the gold plating has disappeared at the jaws where the work is done.
Ohh yes, I have some of their speaker terminal posts which required multiple spline keys to tighten de little worm screws. You guessed it - the keys (and the worm screws) are also gold plated...
At least they (and I) don't claim that it helps the sound to get better 😎
Jan
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Guilty as charged, to my defense I'd like to add that I acquired the complete 0411 set some 25 years ago.
Compare that to e.g a Knipex 975304 (square crimp)/975314 (hexagonal crimp).
Way better and easier crimping (cantilever operation), cheaper in the long run.
Phoenix Crimpfox-M basic pliers cost about the same as the wbt 0403, add a couple of crimp inserts and it becomes cost effective (for those who crimp various stuff on occasion)
Goldplated crimp sleeves can be obtained from other manufacturers nowadays.
Not so back in the day when WBT introduced their goldylocks range (mid '80s).
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