While skimming through the Sale of Goods Act the other day I was reminded of the bit that basically says it's illegal to rip off drunks, idiots and children - unfortunately that only applies to "necessary" items ...
And doesn't include ripping of people with more money than sense (nor should it really - where would be the fun in that?).
I am always amused by the great hi fi joke nature/the Creator/small white mice played on us - when you are young enough to hear any difference, you can't afford decent hi fi as you haven't any money. When you have enough money your ears have deteriorated so you can't hear the difference - life's a bitch.
Bob Mannix
FFS!
I thought it was a beach.
No point in doing that, the microwave works perfectly ;-)
Yes, plating the mains plug was extravagant, I never expected it to improve the Hi-Fi (which was correct) and it cost me nothing apart from a few minutes wiring it up in a plating bath - someone else paid for the plating salts :-)
the nuts who buy them!
big snip
Scene: 'Transit Servicing Flight' area, RAF Akrotiri, mid Seventies ...
VC-10 is waved-in to a stop and a ground crew surround the aircraft doing what ground-crew are paid to do. Door opens, steps brought up and a Medic type comes down the steps, staring aghast at the ground crew not wearing ear-defenders ... Medic throws a wobbly and insists that entire ground-crew be summoned to Sick Quarters for Hearing Tests ! Yes, you've guessed correctly; ... _the_ Hi-Fi buff, who could bore for England on the subject, was for all intents deaf-as-a-post - had a frequency-range of about two octaves.
Don't be silly they are the perfect connector for those seeking a warm golden sound, sweet and with a gentle midrange boost.
Stone the crows... when I clicked the link I thought it was a piss-take, but seemingly this is for real! Does it really make any difference to the sound at all, let alone 940 quid's worth?!!
David
Gold actually has a point, it doesn't work harden, so would make decent cables for headphones.
Of course it does - ask anyone who's bought one ...
This bloke would buy one, thats if he already hasn't.
Any particular car batteries (Bentley, Porsche, etc) or will one out of a rear-ended Fiat Fandango down the scrappy's do?
Owain
No, because you would get rumble on your woofters every time the donkey takes a step.
500 hamsters is pretty good, most people are satisfied with 50 ferrets.It's the same principle as internal combusion engines - 6 cylinders give a smoother output than one.
After all, you woldn't use one combi to fill a bath, so why use one donkey to power the hifi
Owain
Did they do gold-plated mosfets or is that taking things too far?
Owain
I my youth I did actually buy a "Practical HiFi" (or similar) magazine; leafing through it I laughed and joked with my mates on the same Electrical and Electronic Engineering course over gold plated mains plugs (and sockets!, if I remember correctly). It was only when I got to the section where someone advocated wrapping a straightened paperclip around the pins of all unused - and therefore unplugged mains electrical items in the house "to avoid induced electromagnetic fields" (or some similar crap) that I decided that that was £2 completely wasted on the magazine and vowed never to buy another one.
The world, it'd seem, has enough nutters in it without me joining them.
Some 20 years later, I've still avoided buying another, however a colleague at work does bring them in from time to time (i.e. once a month - funny, what he spends on HiFi mags I spend on AV equipment... Hmmm...) and he pointed to an article where a filtered mains extension lead for somewhere in the region of £500 was cited as the best, most affordable upgrade to any home system. Don't get me wrong, a mains filter *could* affect the quality, particularly on cheap, badly filtered PSUs, but to my mind spending a tenth of that would do the job satisfactorily.
It's just good to know that, despite the 20 years since my first and only magazine, that Darwinism hasn't yet kicked in, and we still have these people who entertain and amuse us with tales of how polarised speaker cables have changed their life
(ok, anyone care to explain polarised speaker cables?)
Polarised or just marked for convenient in phase connection?
Can you explain speaker cables I have in stock which have directional arrows on them to make sure the signal flows the right way? :-)
I recall a "test" where one cable was reversed. Apparently the effect was clearly audible.
Bless!
Any fule knowe that you have to coat them in snake oil and use a 1.5 volt duracell to flush out the tired electrons and do that on the full moon with a young virgin.. Never mind;)....
Somewhere around there is a place selling speaker cable pylons to carry the precious electrons over the carpet so they don't get "contaminated" but I can't remember where it is now.
Still Russ Andrews comes up with some fine products. Apart from those "must have" rhodium plated type speaker cables he does some fine mains leads and even offers a service to "burn them in!.
Think I'm joking?, these things are taken very seriously in some circles.
Hope this link works;)......
motor racing"
I just realigned my banana plugs 180 degrees and instantly transformed a troublesome midrange cut into boost. I just wondered by using them do I avoid any possibility of the skin effect?
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