copper

[David Halliday]

The thing I love is the double standard.

Here we have "vinyl addicts" who claim that the old recordings have such
better tone and presence and they spend beaucoups dosh on their system but
they will not listen to the fact that their precious recordings were
recorded on equipment that totally contradicts their "engineering" ideas.

The popular contact material back then was an alloy known as coil silver or
German Silver - it's oxide is also a pretty good conductor.  Contacts were
frequently phosphor bronze spring material, wire was tinned copper.

These "audio purists" are trying to reduce the number of dissimilar
electrochemical metals in their playback chain for fear of discontinuity and
partial rectification while totally ignoring the fact that the source
material traveled through dissimilar junctions galore on it's way to the
shellac master...


Fun stuff...



----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Potas <michael at lake.com.au>
To: <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: copper


> Oxygen free copper is all marketing likeheaps of HiFi stuff.  As an
example,
> the HiFi shops claim that gold connectors on your digital connector cables
> improves sound quality - obviously b*llsh*t.
>
> MP
>