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

[Geoff]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Andrews" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
To: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Power Cord size (HT-33A)


> 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
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