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Maths off today? 😀 Got to play 9 holes with my physicist friend from MIT, quite a refreshing change getting to discuss the latest gravity wave results between holes. 7n7is is going to have to try harder.
Hey, what's an order of magnitude among friends??

Problem was, I ran outta fingers. I hate this metric stuff..

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ps..there's gravity waves between holes?? Whoa, that would explain a lot..
 
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Yup.

We used aluminum, and it was unbelievably malleable out of the package. We had to make sure we didn't work harden it.

It's funny. You know that OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) copper that's marketed to audiophiles? Because of the heated mold, it's supposed to have no/fewer grain boundaries than regular ETP copper. So much better for signal transmission because the electrons aren't always banging their little heads on them.

Well, a friend of mine wanted me to wire up his headphone amp with some of it. When I received the wire, I stripped off some insulation and went to twist up the strands nice and tight before tinning it. But the strands wouldn't stay twisted for love nor money. Just kept springing back. I was scratching my head wondering if the stuff was even copper. Then it dawned on me. It hadn't been annealed.

So yeah, maybe it had fewer crystal boundaries, but it's conductivity would have to have been complete crap because the Chinese manufacturer who was making it under license hadn't annealed it.

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All those expensive cables sound no better than lamp cord, but my vintage lamp cord with the fabric insulation sounds warmer than your new plastic lamp cord...

Issues of sound aside, and I know you were only joking, but I love that old stuff. It inspired the cables I'm doing now which are made with a fine-strand (220 x 44 gauge) silk-served litz wire inside a braided silk sleeving. The cable's made of a four strand braid, a la Magnetic Shield Corp's Inter-8 Weave. It's gossamer light weight, flexible as a wet noodle (and forms exactly where you want it) and it looks and feels fantasic.

Now days they're making stuff that's so thick, heavy and stiff, you have to weigh down your components to keep the cables from making them do wheelies. 😀

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A bit if homoerotica to make my point.

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Peteleoni, I am glad that you expanded your opinion of amps to include some of my designs as well. However, I am not trying to fool anybody, it would be pointless to do so. Read the paper, and learn something new!
John I 'm not a fool and neither are you. You no more believe in this than I do. A double blind test done by the folks here is all that is needed and that is not going to happen
 
I try to remain very open minded, but I am not willing to waste the money to find out that Duelund it performs and sounds no better than a $1 Axon film capacitor. I have used Mundorf, and in my own opinion they are little different than several modern electrolytic capacitors that have been arranged in parallel to attain the same value, and a low equivalent series resistance.

A client requested I use Duelund Alexanders in a passive crossover as bypasses .
I thought they clouded detail and increased insertion loss. A lot!
He seems happy knowing his speakers use Duelund, though.
 
I think that a double blind test would 'PROVE' that you don't need a Parasound amp to not hear any differences. Perhaps you should shop for something cheaper.

Typically you mix glass beads into the epoxy when re-shafting your golf clubs in order to center the shaft (I use silicon carbide grit). Do you think using some ground up carbon nano-tubes might help me hit an occasional drive through a micro-wormhole here and there adding a few yards?
 
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