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[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Sure is accept Obama and his cracking down. He should lose ever single vote in Cali just for that. Coming out your way in April. Heading to Oceanside. You any whewre close or on the way?

Just a mile from John Wayne Airport, let's get together.

[BlueStreak]

Don,

We have another pervert schilling porn in the house!

Damn capitalists don't know when to quit.................

[bobabode]

But it was in french- ooo lala- that must've been what sent DJ over the moon.

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

IF YOU PAY FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN LAMP-CORD, YOU HAVE BOUGHT THE SNAKE-OIL AND WASTED YOUR MONEY!!!!!

Couldn't resist.

BTW, I use old extension cords, and they seem to work quite well.

Regards,

D-Ray

That is what Roger Russel, speaker designer for McIntosh, said years ago. Now that McIntosh sells cables I think they have changed their minds.

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I did the 500 miles of cat5 braiding too, I still use them. I biwire simply because I won some cables last AK fest (you guys ARE going, right??).

After I had a loose banana plug fry my old Marantz I switched to locking bananas.

One thing I noticed, I placed a little pebble on top of my amp. As I move it around it changes the sound!

Amazing. If anyone wants one let me know, I think I can reproduce them for $1,397.31 each.

Plus shipping and handling.

Pete

I can cut some wood blocks with a v cut on top to hold your cables off the floor. $25 each is a bargain. Then you can isolate your gear with neoprene covered cork. Commonly used to isolate commercial AC systems. I could make a grand of of one sheet of that stuff.

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

You could be completely BS-ing here, and I wouldn't have a clue. I plug my stereo into a surge protector/ power strip. The lights come on and sound comes out. If I put on good source material, I generally like the sound that is coming out.

Regards,

D-Ray

Funny thing about investing a fortune in the AC supply to audio equipment. About all that matters is that the AC supply is in the correct voltage range. Once it enters the unit it is transformed to DC voltage and then is filtered with capacitors. You can replace that $8000 dollar IEC power cord with an $8 lamp cord and achieve the same results.

[Wasillaguy]

I had a new tech convinced I could smell a bad fuse. It was a big ceramic body fuse, so no visual indication when they pop, but I had seen this system pop this fuse many times and the tech didn't know that.
I simply started pulling fuses and sniffing them, until I got to the one I knew was bad. Sniffed it, and said "Yep, this one's bad".
He verified my diagnosis with his meter, then walked around with this dazed look on his face the rest of the day. After some time passed and it failed a few times on his watch, he realized he'd been had.

[d-ray657]

Picking on the new kid, huh? That's a pretty good one.

Regards,

D-Ray

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by wgrr

Funny thing about investing a fortune in the AC supply to audio equipment. About all that matters is that the AC supply is in the correct voltage range. Once it enters the unit it is transformed to DC voltage and then is filtered with capacitors. You can replace that $8000 dollar IEC power cord with an $8 lamp cord and achieve the same results.

But your ears are not qualified to make such blanket judgements. That 6 foot cord has a significant impact hooked on the end of that 100 ft of Romex.

[merrylander]

Get one of those ferrite gizmos to clamp over the cord.