And heaven forbid you should plug and unplug enough times to wear the gold plating off the brass friction female terminals - they would then be totally useless or the missing gold plating would introduce intolerable distortion. Oh, and of course, the brass pins on the equipment lead plug would also have to be gold plated to eliminate dissimilar metal contact distortion :-)
Those are Zero Ohm fusible links if I'm not mistaken, just in case the fuse doesn't do its job.
And did you notice the soldered connections on the board are tin-lead and the transformer connectors are zinc passivated 1/4" QC types - a great source of non-linear contact distortion. Then the power transformer uses copper wire which would just have to introduce extreme distortion - but then, perhaps I am mistaken and the copper wire is actually polarised and grain orientated and this cancels out non-linear artefacts in the AC current, however, I feel that it should have at least been gold or silver-plated wire to achieve the best audio performance.
The fuse-holder contacts also look like they are on-edge wiper contacts which reduce the contact area to the fuse end caps to a very small area indeed. Surely the reviewer (Paul Candy) would have noticed these obvious points which could be modified so as to maximise the audio performance even more than that due to the Isoclean fuse itself :-)
On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:45:33 -0500) it happened "DaveM" wrote in :
I have no words for this. the poor sucker who buys it, I have pity on him. But then he must have 2 much $$ anyways. Wonder how much they sell of that stuff. Wonder if Bill Gates has these as standard outlet in his house ;-) No he is not that daft I think.
On a sunny day (Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:23:00 -0500) it happened Mike Monett wrote in :
I thought are there any gold plated power stations?, but then I had this business idea: Golden generators. Runs on gasoline. Adds that nice low frequency warm sound.
That's why you need solid gold, then the plating can't wear off.
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Actually, they are jumpers - see the single black stripe ;-)
No, that was a fisherman, it was a .22, and it hit him in the testicle. ;-)
Cheers! Rich
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Isn't real, live, "solid gold" so soft you can scratch it with your thumbnail?
Thanks, Rich
I think so, but then there's more gold underneath, so that's ok, and when it wears out you can buy more. Perfect for the audiophool.
Chris
If I got 0.0000001 Cents for every time a Microsoft product crashed I'd be.......
Bill Gates,
Oh.... Bugger :-(
DNA
Ermmm......... They don't look very non-inductively wound to me. That's got to mess up the clarity of your Ukulele.
DNA
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New comment.........SNURK!!!!!!!
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