I sure do, though the color I recall was green (likely because green magic
markers were the cheapest you could get). One godawful company even began
selling CD’s with the green ink already in place via the labelling process.
“Science is true whether you believe in it or not”
Gary
> On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:20 PM, Duane Calvin <ac5aa1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jim,
> Do you remember when CD's were first coming out the big hoo-haw about
> using blue magic markers to color the edge to "keep the laser light from
> escaping?" Oh, man, I had just started a subscription to one of the terrible
> audio mags, and instantly cancelled it when that one was written up! And I
> can't say "Monster Cable" without laughing . . .
>
> 73, Duane
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> ac5aa@ac5aa.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 9:54 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] RFI into Orion II
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> Oh, I'm well aware of the ravings of the audiophools and the carnival barkers
> who extract money from them -- they were routinely the topic of considerable
> merriment when we gathered in the bar at meetings of professional audio
> societies (I'm a Fellow of the AES and an emeritus member of the Acoustical
> Society of America).
>
> Bob, K4TAX, is also retired from the world of pro audio.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On Sun,2/21/2016 7:39 PM, Gary J FollettDukes HiFi wrote:
>>
>> I just visited your page and find it very eye opening.
>>
>> While I was aware of the effects to which you refer in your article on
>> “Transmission Lines at Audio Frequencies”, I had not seen the actual
>> plots of the responses before.
>>
>> I am sure you are aware, but lots of sellers of very expensive audio
>> cables exploit the effects to which you refer, effects that are
>> negligible (as you state) at cable lengths less than 500 feet. These
>> sellers contend the these effects can be heard at 10 foot lengths and
>> claim to have somehow compensated for these effects in speaker and
>> coax cable costing well over $500 per foot in some cases.
>>
>> This is in the same bin as the fellow’s device intended to “degauss”
>> compact disks, which are, of course, made of polycarbonate and
>> Aluminum, both of which are non-magnetic.
>>
>> Read the following bunch of BS and you will know what I mean:
>>
>> http://www.stereophile.com/content/cd-demagnetizing-1
>>
>>
>
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