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On 10/17/2005 at 5:14 PM Pete Turnbull wrote: I'd love to see what Bob Pease would make of all of this, he did have a field day with speaker cables: http://www.national.com/rap/Story/0,1562,3,00.html 4 feet of 10 AWG oxygen free copper wire connecting to 14 AWG house wiring back to the distrubution panel. Why not some 1/2" gold-plated copper tubing in a fused quartz box filled with argon for the absolutely best AC sound? Wonder if folks know how noisy the average AC mains supply is? Ah, but that's it--disconnect from the mains entirely! Run your audio rig off of a pile of deep-cycle lead-acid batteries. No need for those terrible switching power supplies or (gasp!) transformers! I needed some binding posts (for a power supply I was building) and found that one of the surplus dealers had some for very cheap, so I ordered some. Much to my surprise, they turned out to be gold-plated with wire insertion holes that could easily accommodate 6 ga wire. Mind you, the wiring tie points attached to the posts would pass 18 ga wire, tops. I concluded that they must have been manufactured for the audiophile trade. No one else in his right mind would use small banana-plug type binding posts for conductors that large. Cheers, Chuck