Audiophool product of the week

I think I'm in the wrong business.

Or maybe not -- shaving's kind of hard when you can't look at yourself in the mirror.

Judging by their power cord brochures, they don't understand the reason for a nickel diffusion barrier layer between Cu and Au. They think hand polishing will do better (at making it pretty and shiny for while, I guess).

But they do hire good photographers.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Nah, they'll charge them on their CC, and let the Fed bail out the issuing banks after they go bust. Look how much wealth is created!

How about now?

They hunt up the same suckers who pay $50 for a foot of silver-plated speaker cable.

Same here. A while ago I had a good laugh at tube amplifiers. Turned out the person I was talking to was a tube amplifier fan. So I told him tubes have a more pleasant distortion but no distortion at all is better ofcourse. Someone in that conversation was clearly -not amused-

"In reality we are dealing with different fine shades of distortive elements, which are truly beyond measurable quantities"

Don't tell the authorities or they'll ban it and imprison you for it.

They eschew the use of "paradium" plating from their Japanese supplier, though. Nothing about pratinum.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

^ braindead IFYPFY

Electroplating typically follows the surface quality of the surface it goes onto, up until it exceeds a specific thickness.

You and I both know that the Au is not ever going to get plated on at that level, so the surface quality it goes onto is important.

This is not an audio thing. This is simply basic industrial science about electro-plating that has been known for decades. Facts can easily be found in your handy CRC handbook of chemistry and physics.

IF they actually put a decent Gold layer on, hand polishing is burnishing. If they don't, and most don't, hand polishing is a slow total removal process, and it is easy to tell when the plating is so thin that the color fades.

I think I discovered their secret, make everything really heavy.

Since I'm too cheap for power supply chokes, I stuff my tube amp chassis with lead instead. ;-)

Tim

Ah, ready mix cement isn't to expensive!

I don't see how you fixed it, I wrote what I wanted it to say. Mike

If a household buys 5 of those, they are arguably quite braindead.

If a household even considers buying five of those, the same holds true.

Regardless of what you wrote, or whether it was what you intended to write. The remark has been "fixed" The fact that it was 'your post' means not a damned thing.

I guess you don't get out much, sorry to post something that is above your level of understanding. It was sarcasm. Mike

Hey Mike, it's Dimbulb.

IFYPFY

I know that he is stupid, but do you really think that he is that stupid, idiot?