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My first thought on reading this is that i could make a plastic box that does nothing and print up a fancy brochure, sell it for $500, and drive this product off the market.

The I realized that cheap doesn't work in this market. Therefore I plan to sell it for $2000 each and drive their product off the market.

had

I believe Mr. Thompson passed through that door years ago.

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