Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1"

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/17/2005 at 5:14 PM Pete Turnbull wrote:

>One of my cow orkers, Marc, has pointed out that some of it's been done
>before:
>
>http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/

I'd love to see what Bob Pease would make of all of this, he did have a
field day with speaker cables:

http://www.national.com/rap/Story/0,1562,3,00.html

4 feet of 10 AWG oxygen free copper wire connecting to 14 AWG house wiring
back to the distrubution panel.  Why not some 1/2" gold-plated copper
tubing in a fused quartz box filled with argon for the absolutely best AC
sound?  Wonder if folks know how noisy the average AC mains supply is?

Ah, but that's it--disconnect from the mains entirely!  Run your audio rig
off of a pile of deep-cycle lead-acid batteries.  No need for those
terrible switching power supplies or (gasp!) transformers! 

I needed some binding posts (for a power supply I was building) and found
that one of the surplus dealers had some for very cheap, so I ordered some.
 Much to my surprise, they turned out to be gold-plated with wire insertion
holes that could easily accommodate 6 ga wire.    Mind you, the wiring tie
points attached to the posts would pass 18 ga wire, tops.

I concluded that they must have been manufactured for the audiophile trade.
 No one else in his right mind would use small banana-plug type binding
posts for conductors that large.

Cheers,
Chuck