[Boatanchors] Nassau solder now valuable?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Relax Joe, with all of that income you will be able to afford professional help
for that 'confusion'! (LOL)	
	
I wonder at what point in time the serious music and audio fan, once
affectionately called an Audiophile, or however it was spelled, became the
'audiophool'? A transition from being a fanof good quality audio equipment to an
equation for the distance a spark can jump across the air space between two
ears, allowing for wax density, degree of partial vacuum and skull thickness. 	
	
Was it because most of us could not correctly pronounce, let alone spell, the
term aficionado? Was it a yen for something made in America, with American
parts, by Americans? Or maybe a bunch of middle age men who while trying to
recapture their youth with potency drugs, a half their age wife, motorcycle or
Hot Rod and cosmetic surgery to hide the years they worked on getting out of
shape instead of in shape, desperately trying to get the best sound equipment
money can buy to enable them to hear the frequency ranges the years of cheap
loud car stereos now deny them? Easy to spot, the most frequently used word is
"Huh?"   	
	
But before we condemn them for their foolishness, how do we justify the prices
some of us have paid for old radios? They were not worth six grand then and they
are worth less now, but that old 'gotta have it' has us spending the grocery
money for a piece of history some rodents won't even reside in!	
	
Joe, if you run out of that special Western Electric air, just open your patio
window. There is still a lot of hot air blowing from the DC area - (chuckle)
Perhaps you can purify it, package it and buy that big boat yet. Keep the faith,
and keep spending! 	
	
I love good audio! I demand good equipment! I demand good audio recordings!
Which means, I play a lot of old 33 1/3 rpm vinyl and have an electric fence
protecting the stylus on my turntable. Am I a fool? Sometimes. Am I one of those
Audio-Phools? Never! I refuse to buy that stuff on CDS they call music today.
But if any of you want some incredible wire that is oxygen free, has no loss and
will give you lows so deep that only one of those seismic sensors can detect it
and highs so brilliant that it will shatter even that really cheap crystal from
a 'Blue Light Special', there is this place in Flushing, MI that sells this
Super Sonic Sound wire for only $1,000 per meter.	
	
Duane W8DBF	
	
Where H.H. Scott, James B. Lansing, Revox, Teac, Shure, Marantz and other good
stuff rule!   

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From: Joe <k1ike at snet.net>
To: Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Nassau solder now valuable?
Date: Saturday, November 06, 2004 8:12 AM

I'm still a bit confused.  Do they just collect items,
such as solder, or do they use it?  In other words,
would they replace the solder in their amplifiers with
"WECO" solder?

I worked for the local telco for many years and still
have some WECO stuff around.  Some of the parts came
in sealed bags.  These bags still have Western
Electric "air" inside them.  Maybe I could start a
small cottage business replacing the air in "Air
Dielectric Capacitors" with factory original Western
Electric air.

Joe

I'm going to start picking out a nice yacht.

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