[Boatanchors] Make your ricebox sound like a "Super-Pro" with "TUBE-O-LATOR".

[Philip Atchley]

Hi,

Here is an interesting link my brother sent me concerning a "special" lacquer 
that you "paint" your semiconductors with to give them that "Toob" sound. 
Hmm, I wonder if you could make an Icom IC-756 Pro III or IC-7800 perform like 
an Hammarlund Super-Pro?  Then you could have all the "BA Advantages" without 
the weight.

Below the link are some quotes from the website for the benefit of anyone who 
can't browse the site. No, I'm not endorsing the stuff, just found it 
hilarious!

http://www.altmann.haan.de/tubeolator/default.htm

Quote:
"The ALTMANN "TUBE-O-LATOR" lacquer is a high performance overtone-filter 
coating-compound, designed for plastic encapsulated analog- and 
mixed-signal-semiconductors.
The ALTMANN "TUBE-O-LATOR" lacquer is applied only on the top surface of 
plastic semiconductor packages of AD-converter-chips, DA-converter-chips, 
OP-amps and discrete transistors.

After application, the overtone spectrum of these active devices changes 
immediately and permanently.

The new sonic signature will be natural, full and tube-like.
The ALTMANN "TUBE-O-LATOR" lacquer electromechanically balances the 
resonance-spectrum of the plastic chip package and semiconductor itself in 
such a way, that a natural sounding overtone- spectrum of the treated active 
device will be generated.
The lacquer is not applied to the leads and has no impact on the 
manufacturer's electrical specifications of the device.

The performance of the ALTMANN "TUBE-O-LATOR" lacquer has been successfully 
tested with AD- & DA-converters, operational amplifiers, discrete power 
transistors as well as integrated power-modules. Bipolar & MOSFET, SMD & 
through-hole technology."

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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