14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
6:23 p.m.
On 2014-Aug-14, at 5:06 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Aug 14, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
Hmm.. I know a source of many NOS carbon comp resistors from the early 1930s (dogbones,
etc). A new retirement fund?
I recently ran across an audiophile outfit who stated that they use only carbon
composition resistors on the basis that they gave a "warmer" sound than those
nasty film ones. I'd have called the sound "noisy" but then, as I said,
I'm way out of the loop.
But yes, my favorite aspect of carbon composition resistors is
what happens to them when you try to dissipate too much power
through them. It's quite impressive. Beyond that, they're just
big, noisy and expensive. A friend of mine who works in recording always marvels
at the
money people will put down for ridiculous RCA cables and the
like. "Those people might think twice if they saw the kind of
cables we run in the studios we made the records in," he says.
He's wrong, though... I'm not sure they've even thought once.
No, they'd just come up with some tortured faux-technical explanation for why it
doesn't matter on the recording side but does on the playback side.
"There's only one instance of the signal on the recording side but once it's
been split up and distributed into millions of instances for playback it needs better
cables".