[AMPS] Audio BS

[measures]

>
>At 08:11 PM 1/13/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>Dave D'Epagnier wrote:
>>>Hey Ian, what do you make of all these audio amplifier manufacturers
>>>specifying their equipment output power to be in rms Watts? This doesn't
>>>make sense to me. 
>>
>>Me neither.
>>
>>Perhaps a certain hi-fi journalist could comment?
>>
>
>If there ever was a place for Charlatan's to set-up shop - its the
>audio-phile community.
>
>$300 connector sets for speakers
>
>$100+ per foot for 6ga speaker "wire"
>
>Stones, that enhance sonic purity when placed on top of the cabinet
>
>$500, 4 guage power (mains) cables for the ultimate sounding 9 watt triode
>amp - (nobody told them the power transformer was wound with 26 guage)
>
>electrolytic filter caps with new label material and ink for the printing
>on the label, that doesn't "interfere" with strong magnetic field
>surrounding the cap"

€  A real-special disk to place on top of a CD that really and truly 
improves the sound.  
>
>P.T. Barnum is looking down from above, with great big smile on his face.

indeed, Phil.  About ten years ago, someone spotted a trade journal ad 
from the company that makes Monster Cable.  They were looking for a 
creative writer.  

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  


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