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In Reply to: RE: agreeed Ralph posted by Rod M on January 31, 2016 at 12:15:59
Should I turn in my Audiophile Badge?-Rod
Yes ....Silver cables for under 100.00 doubt real silver
Gold plated for less than a buck ... Paint ..?Yep turn it in now ...:)
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My great-grandfather was a manufacturing jeweler. I have few illusions about silver or gold.
Take a one-inch cube of gold. Put it between two very large pieces of greased lambskin.
Beat it.
Keep beating.
By the time you have beaten the gold into the thinnest Gold Leaf, it will cover a football field.
Electroplating? Far cheaper than paint.
Gold has an amazing atomic structure.
BTW, the outer ring of electrons of a gold atom is a perfect quantum resonant trap for light at the frequency of Cobalt Blue. The light reflected off gold is White Light minus Cobalt Blue, which is why Blue and Gold are complementary colors.
Today, silver is less than $15 a troy ounce, and there is far less than a troy ounce in any meter length of audio cable.
Silver wound transformers? 2.2 pounds of silver is about $462.
Gib mir ein break...
jm
PS: This is not to say that upgrade cables may not be better. And, truth be told, when I was asked to specify office/desktop systems for the Pres. and SVP of Steinway & Sons, I specified some Audioquest cables; their Evergreen interconnect and Type 44 speaker cables--in my own system--hugely impressed me for their value for money.
NB: In case anyone has been in a coma, my last column for Stereophile ran in the October issue; after sending that in I have been an independent consultant.
Beat it.
Keep beating.
By the time you have beaten the gold into the thinnest Gold Leaf.
- JohnMark
Yeah and about the same thickness as our gold to debt ratio ..:)
Well, Bob was a friend of mine and I do recall what I paid for them, it's been well over 10 years ago. But it was likely less than wholesale, maybe $150 for a 1 meter interconnect.
Just for you, I did compare the 95 cent HDMI cable to one provided by Cox cable with their mini-box. I switched to HDMI2 on the TV and watched and listened carefully. Then, I switched to HDMI3 connected to the same channel via a Nexus Player over a Gigibit internet switch to an HDHomeRun Prime cable card tuner and I was Godsmacked! The picture was essentially the same, but the Cox cable from the mini-box brought the sound to life by being way louder.
Should I go to Cox and beg for more free cables?
Make sure you get enuff for your friends ...:)
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