[Elecraft] Succumbing to temptation

[Margaret Leber]

Lloyd Lachow wrote:

>   Before I could really
> think through the implications, I had reached out and cranked that
> power to 11...So I got a 339... But at what cost to my soul? Who was it, really,
> at the controls just then?

Well, we can hazard a guess:

---
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the
board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, 
most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all 
the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your 
guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra 
push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the 
top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
---"This is Spinal Tap"

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