[Boatanchors] Power Cord size (HT-33A)

[Mike Andrews]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:29:05AM -0600, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> 
> GOOD GRIEF! 
>  
> What total, absolute horse pellets! 
>  
> P.T. Barnum (or whoever) was definitely on track 
> in saying, "There's a fool born every minute!" 
>  
> I wonder what those "enthusiast magazines" were 
> paid in bribes to make those claims! 
>  
> Audio snobs, wine snobs, et al are merely objects 
> of amusement and pity to those who know facts! 

> > From: albert.lafrance at coldwar-c4i.net
> > To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:21:49 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Power Cord size (HT-33A)
> > 
> > Look no further - for a mere $749.99 (sale price!!!) you can have this:
> > http://www.essentialsound.com/essence-power-cord/index.htm
> > 
> > Of course, if all you want to do is get electricity from the socket to your
> > rig and are so uncultured that you don't care about vital issues like
> > "uncanny spatial & dynamic realism" (not to mention "dynamics endowed with
> > lifelike energy"), then I guess the Home Depot stuff is OK. 

It 'pears to me that we have a new kind of snob. Add to "wine snob" the
"wire snob". I'd been calling them "audioph00ls", but "wire snob" fits
so much better. 

"Enthusiasts" indeed: infused -- or infested -- with the spirit of the
great god Audio, before whom all must quail, and lacking the tiniest
vestige of that most uncommon quality, common sense.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin