[R-390] "Special" wall plugs for R-390x recvrs

[Les Locklear]

I guess we are all getting more mellow with age. A couple of years ago, you 
would have been called a witch and taken to task for working for Lucifer 
himself............:-)

I prefer all my high end speaker wire to be oxygenated and bombarded with 
taconite pellets 1/2 hour before hooking up.

Les Locklear
Gulfport, MS.

'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank
her for it.

W.C. Fields (1880-1946)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Hagen" <b_hagen at sbcglobal.net>
To: "mikea" <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>; <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] "Special" wall plugs for R-390x recvrs


> Hey guys it's called "marketing" and don't let the
> whole truth get in the way. You have to give the audio
> guys some credit though. Who else has reversed
> electron flow. Who else took ordinary zip cord to 20
> times (or more!)it's normal price by packaging and
> market claims? I'll bet you didn't know that the
> finish on the outside surfaces of 3/4" plywood speaker
> boxes has a drastic effect on sonics. etc,etc. I was a
> mfr. rep in the Hi Fi field for many years but with
> manufacturers that sold around this type of hype.
>
> Bruce
>
> --- mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 06:35:04PM -0500, Barry
>> Hauser wrote:
>> > Sheesh!  The outlets look like the special orange
>> ones required for isolated
>> > lines, only white, with a bit of gold plating.
>> >
>> > I'm afraid it's no joke....
>> >
>> > To go with it, they also have a $79 "Edison" plug
>> and a $79 IEC plug (for
>> > the other end assuming the gear has an IEC
>> socket).
>> >
>> > Barry
>> >
>> > > Anything good for the over-the-top audiophools
>> is good for the
>> > > "certifiable" radio fanatics too, eh?
>> > >
>> > > This particular item takes the entire audiophile
>> insanity to a
>> > > whole new level. This concept is so preposterous
>> that I'm
>> > > thinking that there may be a possibility that PE
>> has done this
>> > > as a joke, just to see how far this phenomenon
>> can be taken, and
>> > > how many fish will actually jump, and take the
>> bait.
>> > >
>> > >                  http://tinyurl.com/s4pr
>> > >
>> > > I'm still shaking my head in disbelief....
>> > >
>> > >                  http://tinyurl.com/s4pr
>>
>> But that ad also shows a vanilla piece of Tripp-Lite
>> gear.
>>
>> Well, I guess that when your external power is down,
>> you are willing
>> to accept power from something that doesn't have
>> hand-sanitized e-,
>> gold-plated <foo>, o liquid Helium-conditioned
>> <bar>.
>>
>> Audiophools! Sheesh!
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>> mikea at mikea.ath.cx
>> Tired old sysadmin
>>
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