No idea but maybe the blood or rust is a horrible contaminant in the intended use. The true stuff is endangered apparently, Kremer (the ultimate art geek place) offers farmed stuff to professionals only ha, ha. What artist would say they are not a professional. It's not as if my kids want real cinnabar in their paint set.
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More fallout from our Austin concert taping experience. If you look at the spectra a harmonica is a great multitone signal with the frequency components sometimes going over several octaves at very small amplitude differences. I guess it would make a great IM "by ear" test signal.
I don't know what to think or do about this situation. I have maintained a consistent stance for the last 20 years, so far as I can tell, to openly discuss and learn from others what works to make audio design as successful as possible.
I find that anything too 'controversial' such as KBK's liquid cables, VDH's Carbon cables, or even Hawksford's 50+ page paper on wires is discounted, and even laughed at, here. Yet I have personally spoken with each of these designers, and I think, in fact I know, that they are 'on the level' doing the best they can, and just found this area of design fascinating enough to pursue. Yet they, as well as me, are all criticized as being 'commercial', for also trying to make money from their efforts, etc. Well, we all have to make a living.
I find that anything too 'controversial' such as KBK's liquid cables, VDH's Carbon cables, or even Hawksford's 50+ page paper on wires is discounted, and even laughed at, here. Yet I have personally spoken with each of these designers, and I think, in fact I know, that they are 'on the level' doing the best they can, and just found this area of design fascinating enough to pursue. Yet they, as well as me, are all criticized as being 'commercial', for also trying to make money from their efforts, etc. Well, we all have to make a living.
John,
I didn't know you followed finance? A book about Outright Liars? 🙂 Or was that an audio marketing comment?
Oh you mean Gladwell's book, pardon the interruption.
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Let's hope that simon7000 has neighbours who are either slightly deaf or have systems with good EMC performance. Or has he surrounded his listening room with a Faraday screen?
I remember playing with a buzzer when I was young. I coupled it to the low voltage winding of a bell transformer and found that I could get quite long (but thin) sparks from the high voltage winding. Hopefully my neighbours blamed the interference on a poorly suppressed electrical appliance - the regulations were a lot simpler in those days!
I remember playing with a buzzer when I was young. I coupled it to the low voltage winding of a bell transformer and found that I could get quite long (but thin) sparks from the high voltage winding. Hopefully my neighbours blamed the interference on a poorly suppressed electrical appliance - the regulations were a lot simpler in those days!
+1.
Marconi got his loud enough to get across the pond - but I suppose there wasn't anyone else around to be interfered with!
Marconi got his loud enough to get across the pond - but I suppose there wasn't anyone else around to be interfered with!
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I was watching a great old film the other day, think it was "I Walked with a Zombie". They had a beautiful spark gap transmitter to send wireless telegrams to the other islands and ships. The set decorator did a beautiful job with it, spark and all.
Except that KBK himself outlined the experiment that simply showed if the conductivity is bad enough there is little/no Lenz force. Did he mean to imply somehow with these cables Lenz's law does not apply? From the way he said it, I don't know.
An N52 cylindrical super magnet dropped down a copper pipe of just a little larger diameter is a neat experiment BTW.
Our pal, DIMITRI, has already done most of this for everyone. Just get his 150 page set of notes.
Thanks! Where do we find this? I tried searching threads in which 'dimitri' has participated, but nothing jumped out.
I don't quite know what to say John. Your comments about Barrie and Matti are so full of resentment and bitterness that I don't see how folks can cull that much usefull information from them. As I pointed out before Matti was NOT the first person to point out that inadequate full power bandwidth/slew rate caused distortion.
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