Kimber PBJ, Part 2

Posted by Luminator (A) on April 24, 2022 at 17:47:50

In Fall 1993, I bowled several leagues at San Francisco's Japantown Bowl. At one, Nessie jumped behind the desk, and popped in a cassette of songs which would be included on Anything Box's Hope. "Answer Me" and "Where Is Love And Happiness" turned our league into a discotheque! After we were done bowling, I invited Nessie and friends to my house, where I had just bought the $62 Kimber PBJ line-level interconnect.

We had a tournament at Santa Cruz's Surf Bowl, which later was renovated, and became Boardwalk Bowl. A light bulb went on, in Nessie's head. She said the black/red/blue color scheme of the PBJ reminded her of her and her partners' black, red, and blue bowling balls.

And, walking across the street to the beach, Nessie thought the tri-braid PBJ was like mixing and matching bikini tops and bottoms, on her and her two partners. Eh, their bikini tops were close enough to the PBJ's black, red, and blue color scheme. IIRC, I was the odd man out, wearing gray board shorts, with a red-and-white hibiscus print.

OTOH, because the PBJ did not come with an outer jacket, audiophiles did not know what to think. The black, red, and blue legs are supposedly Teflon. Each leg consists of seven "Vari-Strand" (multi-gauge) copper conductors.

I had an RCA PBJ between NAD 5000 CD player and B&K Pro10MC preamp. A balanced PBJ then went between the preamp and a Muse Model 100 power amp. The latter came with Switchcraft XLRs, which you can see, in my reviews of Kimber's Carbon and KCAG interconnects. Above, see the UltraPlate RCA, which still comes standard, on current-production PBJs. To differentiate left channel and right channel, one has white bands, the other red.

If you unscrew the UltraPlate's barrel, you can see how the PBJ works. Red is used as the signal carrier. Blue is ground; and black is an additional drain wire.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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Topic - Kimber PBJ, Part 2 - Luminator 17:47:50 04/24/22 (0)

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