At 09:36 AM 1/10/2002 +0000, Stephen Casey wrote: >Hmmm..., > >I suspected that this might provoke a response or two.
Yes, I thought you had tongue in cheek. But I find it useful, sometimes, to express exactly how and why I know that something is B.S. > I haven't downloaded >the other documents yet, but 'The Power and the Glory' has provided myself >and my colleagues with huge entertainment - Although Mr. Andrews assertion >that the mains fuse should never be replaced with anything rated less than >13A, for any piece of equipment could arguably be considered dangerous. I was concerned about his advice to swap the hot and neutral wires. Yes, if they are reversed, swapping them is likely to result in an improvement in hum, but most audio plugs, as I recall, are two-prong and not polarized, so one can just turn the plug around. And swapping the actual wires unless one has determined that they are actually reversed could be very dangerous. I shudder a bit at the thought of someone gullible enough to believe Mr. Andrews rummaging around through his house wiring. On the bright side, his next-of-kin might get to sue Mr. Andrews, and the money might be worth more than him. (just kidding, even foolish people are precious ....) I try not to be without a neon tester. With one probe of the tester in my hand, touching a hot wire with the other probe will cause a faint glow in the bulb, from the leakage through my body's capacitance to ground. Or one leg can touch a ground instead of my body, in which case the glow will be bright.... If the audio equipment has a metal case, not so common any more, running the back of my fingers along it will cause a muscle vibration if it is hot or has high capacitance to the hot side. Obviously, in case there is actually a short from case to hot, I'd want to be isolated from ground. It's good to be aware of that muscle phenomenon, one might detect a hot refrigerator or the like without having to actually get shocked in the middle of the night, in bare feet.... > I do >realise that the quality of a CD player could be significantly impaired with >a 3A fuse in the mains supply though. That's why all my audio equipment has >it's own fusion reactor, connected via superconductors to the stripboard. >The cryogenic cooling system makes the listening environment quite cold and >noisy, but the sound quality is amazing. Actually cold fusion works much better. It's really noise-free. You don't need cryogenic conductors, pure silver is good enough, with a few farads on the power transistors. >Mr. Andrews could possibly make more money by turning base metals into gold. >Oh no - I just realised that he's doing that already - with copper. Actually he is turning ignorance and stupidity into gold, real alchemy. What's really interesting is is background. He's quite open about it. His qualifications for giving audio advice? He's been selling high fidelity equipment for years. I'm surprised that he tolerates CDs. There is a whole movement that considers CD sound artificial, just as the Anstendig (sp?) Institute is opposed to anything but perfect-focus photography. But CD playback slowing down from voltage variation, yes, that was rich.... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
