I used to use some green and black extension cord that I bought at Lowes hardware. Only a tiny step above zip cord, but it looked trick. I was using it to run a big pair of speakers at Lone Star Audio Fest one year, got a few comments on it. Then a diyAudio mod and a well know designer came into the room, we had not met face to face yet. They commenced to berate my system and blamed it all on the crappy Lowes extension cord speaker cables. I was about to take him seriously when the two of them burst out laughing and revealed their true identities. 😀 I sure miss audio shows.
Star trek reference which I assumed everyone would get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribble
You just failed the geek test and the google test... 😛
Maybe I am too cynical, but perhaps set up your system with the giant cables in view as if you were using them, but secretly have the zip cord hidden under something but is actually wired to teh speakers. See if he notices..
Ya know, that basically amounts to playing games with that guy.
Why bother?.... children play silly games.
Why allow yourself to be so controlled, so manipulated, for such a rediculous reason?
Why put yourself to the task of pleasing someone visiting YOU in your own home just because they have a dumb mental issue about things?
You don't like the damn wiring of my stereo system, in MY home?.... fine, but it's MINE.
Why allow such nonsense?
If someone were to insist on such things to ME in my home, I'd show them the damn door real quick.
Go on!..... git!
Why bother?.... children play silly games.
Why allow yourself to be so controlled, so manipulated, for such a rediculous reason?
Why put yourself to the task of pleasing someone visiting YOU in your own home just because they have a dumb mental issue about things?
You don't like the damn wiring of my stereo system, in MY home?.... fine, but it's MINE.
Why allow such nonsense?
If someone were to insist on such things to ME in my home, I'd show them the damn door real quick.
Go on!..... git!
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No. Coastal Maine we have humidity without heat. 47 deg F (8C) today, mid-June!
We get both tight black scuzz and fluffy green moss. Twice people we know have been told by their homeowner insurance to clean their roof. Theory is that moss roots grow through asphalt shingles and cause hidden water damage. Neighbor had that twice and went for metal roofing. (My theory is that pressure washers do more harm than the moss; if you follow ka7niq's subtle self-link you see he never does that.)
This week we noticed clumps of curled asphalt shingles on the lower roof. Since this roof is from 1985, I can not complain! (Good shingles, little heat, little sun.)
So just how "fat" are they? I also happen to have "fat" ones. Mine are 10awg., 600 strand per lead, silver plated.
can't hear any difference from a coat hanger. But they are silicone jacketed, high tech accredited, and look great. Not to mention the low pressure on the RCA connectors. Otherwise I'd just dress up the hangers.😎
The most common roof tiles in the United Kingdom are made from concrete and have a sandy/granular finish on the exposed side of the tile. This part of the tile is designed to gradually wear off until the tile needs to be replaced, usually after 80-100 years of normal weathering.
Using a high powered pressure washer may strip the surface of the tile and shorten its life expectancy.
Yes, asphalt shingles don’t like pressure washers.
Moss tends to degranulate rather than penetrate the shingle. Even the older organic based ones weren’t penetrated by roots.
Tiles in this neck of the woods don’t have a coating. They used to be glazed but anyone who’s ever been on a wet glazed roof knows why they stopped doing that.
Concrete surpassed clay some time ago and is far and away the most used material due to cost.
As far as a 100 year roof, it’s really about the underlay as the tiles themselves don’t actually qualify as the roof. The underlay is the roof and the tiles are basically just a UV cover with aesthetic appeal.
Moss tends to degranulate rather than penetrate the shingle. Even the older organic based ones weren’t penetrated by roots.
Tiles in this neck of the woods don’t have a coating. They used to be glazed but anyone who’s ever been on a wet glazed roof knows why they stopped doing that.
Concrete surpassed clay some time ago and is far and away the most used material due to cost.
As far as a 100 year roof, it’s really about the underlay as the tiles themselves don’t actually qualify as the roof. The underlay is the roof and the tiles are basically just a UV cover with aesthetic appeal.
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The row of cottages where I live have clay pantiles, which is an unusual building material for this part of the country but Reading was a brick town back then so everything that could be built in clay was. Cal, you'd be horrified to see it as the roof has not been touched in at least a century 🙂
My slate roof dates from 1900 and is in good condition still though some of the securing nails failed on a couple of tiles so they needed replacing. Ive some patches of moss on the back roof. This thread reminds me
to get it cleaned.
to get it cleaned.
Back on track, there is some data* that the terminating networks in MIT cable 'could' make an audible difference 'if' you are sensitive to certain things or if your amplifier is sensitive to them. But as likely that you won't spot it.
*By data I mean measurements, sims and anecdotal listening reports.
*By data I mean measurements, sims and anecdotal listening reports.