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70's? Pot the electronics?

You sure you got that part about pot right?

At 06:44 AM 5/21/2007, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) wrote:
>Back in the 70s, it was a highly held belief that if you pot the
>electronics, there was a great improvement in the clarity and depth of
>the music.
>Dewey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Kirschner
>Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:02 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
>
>Heh heh...
>
>It's all to feed, and thereby make $ off, the terrible disease called
>"audiophiliosis"...some friends of mine have it...spent tens of
>thousands of
>dollars on spectacular equipment and whiz-bang cables to listen to
>cassette
>tapes of Grateful Dead concerts...
>
>;o)
>
>Mike
>
>On Sat, 19 May 2007 10:50:39 +0300, Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >No, but it's great for 78s! :-)
> >
> >Brian
> >
> >John Burke wrote:
> >> Would it improve the sound on my 8 track??
> >>
> >> John...................8-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> John Burke
> >>
> >> (408) 515 4992
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Fowler
> >> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:58 AM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
> >>
> >> They do have the amplifier built into the speakers.   I saw some
>about 8
> >> years ago, sounded nice, and were good and heavy.
> >>
> >> Then you can get into the copper crystalline signal cables, which are
> >> just as expensive as the speaker wires.
> >>
> >> It's all about the money...
> >>
> >> david
> >>
> >> Hogg, Blair K. wrote:
> >>> I wonder why someone doesn't just put the amplifier at the speaker
> >>> itself, then run line level audio through shielded cables to each
> >>> amplifier. Probably too much chance of em noise affecting the
>signal.
> >>> Could always go digital to the speaker, then turn it into audio
>signals
> >>> driving the voice coil. I think that is how it is done on some
> >>> automotive systems.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Inge
> >>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:27 PM
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
> >>>
> >>> The world is full of nonsense. A friend of mine bought water cooled
> >>> speaker cables with pure gold connectors. That cable, I assure,
>could
> >>> supply current to a whole block in Santa Domingo. Myself, have an
> >>> ordinary "room cord" like the one you use for your desk lamp, this
>one
> >>> 15 feet long wire feeds a 800 W bass speaker. The loss in the wire
>is so
> >>> low, that it's neglectable, and the distortion would noone hear when
>the
> >>> bookshelves vibrate and you feel the thunder through the chair's
>legs. I
> >>> prefer to listen to the music, not to look at the music via a
> >>> oscilloscope and a spectrum analyzer.
> >>> Inge
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Graham Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:21 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [TN] Friday TechnoTopic
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Ha!  I'm guessing that wasn't a blind test.  How would that short
> >>>>
> >>> piece
> >>>
> >>>> of wire impact audio performance?  It's connecting a household plug
> >>>> socket, through the house wiring (of dubious quality if it's Inge's
> >>>> house...) and the power grid...  and has a transformer on the other
> >>>> side, presumably.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm guessing this is along the lines of the speaker wire a sales
>guy
> >>>> tried to sell me one time.  It was 12 gage wire (overkill, but OK),
> >>>>
> >>> but
> >>>
> >>>> he was very earnest in telling me that the wire was formed such
>that
> >>>>
> >>> it
> >>>
> >>>> was optimized for electron flow in one particular direction...
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm thinking it's only applied to the AC power cord because
>anything
> >>>> more complicated would not emerge functional.  Component failures
> >>>>
> >>> aside,
> >>>
> >>>> what would that do to solder joints???
> >>>>
> >>>> regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Graham Collins
> >>>> Process Engineer,
> >>>> L-3 Communications Electronic Systems Inc.
> >>>> Halifax
> >>>> (902) 873-2000 ext 6215
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>> [log in to unmask] 05/17/07 10:37PM >>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>> There is a process in High End Audio which purports to enhance
> >>>> equipment performance ,  called CryoTreatment.
> >>>>
> >>>> In this process the audio gear is subjected to a ramp down to -281F
> >>>>
> >>> (or
> >>>
> >>>> cooler, but not below -320F), followed by a soak of 20 to 40 hours,
> >>>> followed by a specific warm-up cycle back to R/T.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is postulated  that the technical  explanation for the enormous
> >>>> listening benefits  of the process is a re-arrangement or
>refinement
> >>>>
> >>> of
> >>>
> >>>> the crystal structure of the conductor metals. The effect is so
> >>>>
> >>> powerful
> >>>
> >>>> that objective listeners reported  a significant improvement in
>audio
> >>>> quality when the AC power cord for a preamp was so treated.  I
>doubt
> >>>>
> >>> my
> >>>
> >>>> aging ears are responsive to subtleties of this nature.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anybody care to estimate how an electronic assembly, surface-mount
>or
> >>>> otherwise, including  semiconductor devices, would fare thru  this
> >>>> process?
> >>>>
> >>>> Tom Stearns
> >>>> 3 Brander Court
> >>>> Nashua, NH
> >>>> 03063
> >>>>
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