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Sounds like a good idea, except they probably have a patent for it.

Yeah... nobody needs 'hi-fi' bandwidth for a friggin public address system. Transformer coupled is fine.

Obviously still deaf as a slug.

I don't know, they are marketing it very well by showing a Feynman video and James Bond, and they have plenty of funky graphics and luscious photos. You'll have to up the game a bit.

and you'll have to get similar "press" coverage:

Dave.

ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!

A delusional audio twit.

My hearing scores in the Navy were pretty good. I think I can even hear well right up to 20kHz, if not a bit higher.

I still do not make ludicrous claims about discerning between point values in a set of a thousand points.

To claim to be able to tell the difference between a "3" (0.oo3) and a "1" (o.oo1) in a set of 1000 is pretty much impossible.

For Price Doubling? That one is mine! You both owe me for even discussing it. :-)

My will do nothing differently than theirs.

Nope, that much has been obvious all along! But what IS you motive for writing such crap?

MrT.

Not "pretty much", *no one* has ever reliably done it in a properly conducted double blind test. Only wankers who don't even know how to conduct proper tests delude themselves that they can.

MrT.

Amps that used to go unstable with Quad ESL-57's will probably not work with that strange cable as an interconnect to any speaker unless some effort is made at the far end to terminate it to snub RF oscillations. A list online at:

BGW series 200 was notorious for burning out Quad treble units so that would be a good one to try if you actually wanted to demonstrate it. And the more common, cheap and otherwise decent small amplifier like Rotels RA820 might be a good candidate against that sort of capacitive load.

And here is one company Spectral/MIT that still gleefully admits to designing wideband amplifiers that are borderline stable and require their vastly overpriced MH Ultralinear Speaker Cable to work at all:

Yup. A set of 10' cables for a mere £1250. Good value? I think not. YMMV

I don't really see the point of deliberately provoking a power amplifier to blow fuses or still worse damage the tweeter on expensive kit.

Regards, Martin Brown

...it does LESS for the snake!

I doubt it. When was the Navy thing ? How old are you now ?

geoff

On a sunny day (Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:15:03 -0500) it happened Jamie wrote in :

Well, I have to agree with him. Sorry but for long length you use 100V system, or put the amps next to the speakers. Or in the speakers. Wireless is nice too, no reason not to do it in a hall or stadium, I have seen local small FM transmitters used outdoors in a bigger area.

But some audiofools will buy the stuff or use the stuff, why, beats me.

And what relevance does that have on the subject ?

goes to show how much you really do know..

Who said it was a public address system?

When the system is in use (event taking place), speakers are brought out of storage and set up near the connects at each pole.

Each unit houses an 18" woofer with midrange and added tweeter horns on top.

Another fine example of people talking out of their hats!

Hot 'n' steamy ?

geoff

speakers.

local

No sorry, I know about those systems, they are not intended for quality. although with enough equipment and money put in you can obtain it how ever, getting to that level, you might as well directly wire it.

This isn't a cheap ass announcement system and tinny music playing in the noise..

What does it matter any way? When you work in a place that makes Thousands/Millions of FT of wire everyday.

The sound shack has 4 1200W RMS stereo amps that get bridged and it has a basic PA crap system which is a high voltage system with matching xfomers.. and that sounds like total shit!

The 1200 Watt units how ever are sweat sounding audio.. This last summer I spent the day pulling out the speakers, setting them up, and blasting our grounds area in the back of the facility with hard rock for a couple of hours until the security guard come down and shouted in my ear to get my attention!. I guess I was disturbing the business next door. Guard didn't mind though, he was kind of shocked that even listen to that type of music.

We also use a HV system in the facility for a public address system that is coming off an old 2500 watt tube amp that is just about on it's last leg! It has a nice set of tubes in it how ever. 6 3-500ZG in a push pull config, etc.. The parts unit is running out of parts!

When the day comes for retirement of that unit, the (new) spare tubes will be sprouting wings.

Ha, guess I slipped on that one!

That's what you get for not paying attention to the spell check!