[Milsurplus] [Fwd: Re: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery]

[Peter Gottlieb]

Don't knock aromatherapy.  Placebos have been proven to work.

I like silver wire in motors when you are trying to get every last bit 
of performance at very high power levels.  Half the resistance (and thus 
heating) of copper, although a lot harder to work with.

In audio systems I would find silver somewhat hard to honestly justify.

Peter




J. Forster wrote:
> In following some Audiophool stuff, I came across a Rubidium frequency
> standard for audiophool use and could not resist posting it to the Time
> Nuts list.
>
> Here is one reply. Especially check out the link.
>
> Best,
>
> -Jhn
>
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>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery
> From:    "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
> Date:    Sun, July 4, 2010 4:30 am
> To:      "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On 07/ 4/10 08:48 AM, Steve Rooke wrote:
>   
>> Maybe we are into the wrong sort of projects here, instead of knocking
>> together $10 "testers" we should get some cheap Rb units off fluke.l
>> and start turning out $15,000 audio equipment. Can you imagine how
>> much you could get for your ageing tube Cs unit in this phools market!
>> :)
>>
>> Steve
>>     
>
> Do the cheap fluke units allow locking to a 1 pps signal? If so, you could
> sell
> a GPS locked version for even more!
>
> The point made in
>
> http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/pdf/audiophools.pdf
>
> is that the people that do this sort of thing must have pretty deep pockets,
> which you don't associate with stupid people. (There are exceptions of
> course).
> There was a guy I was at school with. His parents were richer than most of
> us in
> the working class area of Walthamstow, East London.
>
> He did advanced level (A-level) in physics, chemistry and maths, just like
> me.
> He used speaker cables that had arrows on them pointing in the direction the
> music was supposed to flow. I asked him why. He could not offer any
> explanation
> of any logic for this, but still bought them, as he could afford to.
>
> Dave
>
>   
>> On 4 July 2010 19:33, Rob Kimberley<rk at timing-consultants.com>  wrote:
>>     
>>> Maybe we've all been missing something in our timing projects.
>>> Must get some of that high purity 6N copper wire.......
>>> :-)
>>> Rob K
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>>> Behalf Of J. Forster
>>> Sent: 03 July 2010 10:51 PM
>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>> Subject: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery
>>>
>>>
>>> master_clocks/g-0rb/<http://esoteric.teac.com/master_clocks/g-0rb/>
>>>
>>> About $15,000.
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
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>>>
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