4 Jan
2005
4 Jan
'05
9:19 a.m.
Electronics World ran a series of articles called " capacitor sound " from
July 2002.
-Discussing how capacitor construction can affect the sound of a hi-fi amp.
The author , Cyril Bateman , also did a few articles on loudspeaker cable
sound , but I can't find those at the moment.
Geoff.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: RE: Speaking of eBay
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
Festival
I'll believe anything with sufficient
evidence, but solder alloys
in a solder joint sounds like total crap to me -- unless I had
a lot of rolls to offload on fools with more money than I ... :-)
That's the thing mainly with these crazy audiophiles. Except for the two
examples you bring up, which seems like they have a technical basis to the
theory, most of it is just voodoo hocum that doesn't have any underlying
technical or scientific basis. One loon comes up with a wacko theory and
then it propagates until everyone is demanding special-alloy solder. Why?
They don't know, and they don't care. Some guy said it makes the
electrons happy so they have to get some too. It's completely naive.
I want to see technical treatises explaining WHY, with scientifically
executed experiments backed up with empirical data, before I believe any
of this nonsense. I think these audio guys ought to demand the same.
They might save a few bucks.
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