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Who? Who the hell is Gilligan? I'm pretending to be young again.

Cap, I was responding to JKcomputers. You sort of snuck in there in the time I was responding to him. Skin Effect My research indicates at audio frequencies skin effect just doesn't make much difference. The majority benefit for stranding is a mechanical. There's a tremendous amount of urban...

What that be? Maybe because you didn't tell us what that be. Can I plug my aluminum refinery plant into it?

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I dunno... I remember coming across this before. There just isn't enough coupling to make a difference. What's more, the average power going through a speaker is a lot less than the rated power. But let's go worse case, say 200 watts being dissipated over the entire speaker line, each foot...

And the difference in dB is.... OK, the calculated difference is .2dB Given: 8 ohm speakers and #12 wire with one side 25' long and the other 100' Since the minimum generally accepted difference anyone can hear is 1dB, don't sweat the small stuff. 100 feet of #12 will measure .374 ohm (out...

Is this a permanent installation? Generally the rule of thumb is no more than 5% loss in the line. That said, is the load 2, 4, 8 ohms? As a practical matter, I'd cut the wire to the length needed if a permanent install. If we're talking temp, you have Neutriks on each end? Surely you jest...

Sincerity Kirby, what cha gotta understand is that it is all about sincerity. Once you can fake that you have it made!

In a purely Darwinian world anyone whose genes are so deficient as to leave one round in the chamber, well, deserves what he gets. At first, I thought if the gun goes off that kid is gonna get it in the face but nope, a marksman, one round one kill.

A friend of mine works for UPS. Airplanes you can [kinda] understand. Mega expensive to sit on the ground. I can't remember the time frame but I was impressed by how little time a UPS er, uh, OOPS worker gets to empty one of those forty? forty something? footers. And it included the low...

Well yeah sure it could be Wayde but I've had an awful lot of stuff turned into junk by UPS but never by FedEx...yet. In any case, I guess we'll never know for sure.

I received an amplifier from an E-Bay seller yesterday. As I carried it, I heard a sound that isn't the kind of sound you want to hear from an amplifier that is turned off. It was brand new old stock. I don't know how UPS managed to do it but they whacked this thing so hard it ripped the four...

Got me again Fred! As I ran through everyone's comments, I was asking, Isn't this the video disk that used a NEEDLE? Yup, E-Bay, graveyard of old technology searching for new bucks.

Yeah but there is one wooden advantage It goes without saying they are the lightest. Well actually if you didn't say it I wouldn't have replied here. What I mean to say is there is one advantage that I never thought of and that is whether you are more concerned with "weighting out" or...

Hi-Fi VHS (just to mention) This may be a level of complexity beyond BUT since we are so concerned with audio on these pages I'll mention it. Do the VHS tapes feature Hi-Fi audio? Some tapes feature audio encoded on the helical scan. This audio is recorded in the same way the video is...

No opinion on blogging but... Lots of slang is harmless but the term dreckly is another example something akin to cool, as in that's cool. Cool could mean something close to "that's hot" depending on who says it and when but in any case represents something good or a desirable quality. In...

Sheb Wooley Has anyone ever heard the great Sheb Wooley tune where he complains, you know its true, I just don't look good naked anymore?>

Question about one song on the list. Is this the same Pata Pata song as sung by Miriam Makeba? I've been looking for an English translation without success. There doesn't seem to be many Xhosa speakers out there. A Yiddish translation might be easier to come by. Are they both wedding...

Nice work when you can get it Except it [being a DJ or stand-by technician for that matter] is a little like being a fireman. You're not really being paid for the easy ones. You earn your pay when things go wrong and keep your head when all around you are loosing theirs. Esoteric, your...

Sales Associates are people too Ron, there is no point in [me] attempting to explain the inexplicable. I don't think I was trying to say you were wrong so much as I was trying to give one example of cause for this type of confusion. AND I was in a holiday mood. Good will toward men and all...

A part by any other name... Sometimes the problem is regional. Other times it is generic vs. brand naming. Once I needed a Uni-Bit. The guy in Orchard (they're usually a bit sharper in Orchard, har, har) looked at me like I had two heads. He said we don't have them. I said I'm pretty well...

Fred, I'm gonna put you on the spot. Like Ben said, 70V system if new, if the customer was willing to spend a few dollars more, if... well hell if he hadn't committed two receivers to the smoke god he might have been able to afford a properly installed 70V system. Here is my biggest...

As a purely practical consideration... Document, document, document. Document what you see. Write it down. Sketch it. File your notes. Is using the line level return the right way to power the speaker? Obviously the answer is no. Nonetheless I believe Thunder is on point...

Defend Yourself! Sparkieg, isn't that a pair of 4311's the audiophiles love to make fun of hanging on the wall? It is amazing. Other than the foam around the tweeters they just keep going and never need looking after. Well at least that is my experience.

Me too! I still have two. An RT 1020L and an RT 1050. The 1050 has both quarter and half track heads. Half track (stereo) at 15ips went through tape fast. Wanna talk about boat anchors! They didn't have the bells and whistles of the more expensive units but they were solidly constructed...