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[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:08:59 -0700
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

In some ways I don't get it at all.  Why are they screwing around with copper?  They should be using pure silver conductors, sealed in an oxygen-free environment to prevent oxidiation.

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