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| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Thom wrote,"Your comment regarding directionality of interconnects doesn’t belong in this discussion. A large percentage of interconnects are shielded and should be plugged in according to the directionality that the manufacturer specifies. No, I ... | |
| Can stabilant 22 be used for power cords and vacuum tubes? Tom, here’s the results of a quick Google search. You figure it out. Google is your friend."Nasty stuff, I can’t tell you the number of RCA jacks that I have seen that once had Tweek on them and the chemical damaged....looking at the jacks under m... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Psssst wrote,"geoff the genius educating all,how nice"well, and I hate to judge too quickly, not all:-) | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. bdp24"So there ARE (not shouting, but my ’puter doesn’t offer italicization) bulk wire manufacturers (specifically the ones from whom the fuse makers claiming directionality get their wire) who offer direction-orientated wire, and indicate the "fl... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Bdp24 wrote,"To make sense, the maker of fuses claimed to be directional would have to have either:1- Manufactured the wire used in his fuses (having control over the manufacturing would facilitate him keeping track of the directional properties o... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Excerpt from the introduction of Zen and the Art of Debunkery:"As the millennium turns, science seems in many ways to be treading the weary path of the religions it presumed to replace. Where free, dispassionate inquiry once reigned, emotions now ... | |
| BARNES & NOBLE HAS VINYL!!!!! BUT IS THE QUALITY UP TO AUDIOPHILE STANDARDS ???? Say, isn't the new vinyl overly compressed, dynamic range wise? | |
| Can stabilant 22 be used for power cords and vacuum tubes? Tom, I had Tweek. It was junk. No offense to anyone living or dead intended. | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Mapman wrote,"" Mapman will probably buy it, though. "Personal attack! Very hypocritical. I guess its OK when you do it just like anything else.Someone should toss this guy already."It's no a personal attack so relax. Besides, it is true, isn’t it... | |
| QUALITY AND SECURITY OF "LITTELFUSE" PRODUCTS I have been using glass aftermarket fuses for tube electronics for twenty years, including Isoclean fuses and the Audio Magic Super Fuse, the latter being a glass Fuse injected with a liquid of some sort. I never had a single problem. Was that wr... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Mapman wrote,""It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain""Folks would generally be much better off if they believed in too much rather than too little." - PT Barnum"An ordinary man has no means of d... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. Al wrote,"BTW, when I referred to cable effects essentially all being proportional to length I should make it clear that I was referring to power wiring."Nice try but there is no such law as you seem to be implying. Mapman will probably buy it, th... | |
| Can stabilant 22 be used for power cords and vacuum tubes? Tom wrote,"30 years ago this same product then known as Tweek was used and sold in a store I ran. Great stuff for sure . Went away and came back in the same form. Glad it did."i remember Tweek very well. That's the stuff that gave contact enhance... | |
| Can stabilant 22 be used for power cords and vacuum tubes? Water is not a good conductor of electricity. Stabilant 22 on the other hand is. That’s why Deoxit for example is safe to use on tube pins. That’s also why commercial aircraft use it on communications electronics. One must obviously ensure not to ... | |
| Determining current flow to install "audiophile" fuses. George wrote,"Ok now that you’ve said this, show where this is quoted that a 1/2" piece of resistance wire is directional.? Or is it your voodoo thought on the subject, and is not quoted anywhere else by any manufacturer of their fuse product?"I j... |