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Zip cord rules.
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Right on! And zip cord has it's own salesman, way better than Monster's. "Are we having fun yet?"Originally posted by Jazz P Bass View Post
At least he talks sense!
Attached FilesThis isn't the future I signed up for.Comment
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When Monster started I got a call for a demo that was supposed to transform the big monitors, all for free if we endorsed the product. They did not like the fact that we were not hi-fi tweakers, and set up a real double blind test. They left but asked for their speaker wires back a few weeks later. A couple years later one of the groups coming in to record their album said the just got all this super cabling to use during the recording. Some rep got ahold of them and talked them into endorsing the products. They received a modest truck load of the stuff and everyone just picked through it and I think most of it ended up in car systems or whatever. But it never went back to Monster. Soon there were a hundred companies promoting super cables and it got a new name of "interconnects" and most were in the $500-$3400 a meter. All claimed different magical powers, none could prove it. Someone sent us a $3400 IEC power cord and a month later sent us the bill for it, even though I never asked for it or would have even tested if if I knew it was going to be charged for.
I was always partial to welding cable, tough abrasion resistant sheath, flexible and was relatively cheap. Not as cheap as Zip cord however. To hear the flim-flam men talk, none of those records would have made the charts at all if the public found out we did not use magic "interconnects".
Regarding the end of the world if the impedance slips from 8 to 4 or 16 causing instant destruction of sockets, pc boards and burning down the stage, can be summed up by: Bull!
A continuous load, even with a moderately large mismatch will lower power transfer but does not cause flyback or any other type of arcing. That requires an sudden open supply circuit while the inductor is charged. Loose or intermittent pins on the socket, or any other cause of sudden opening of the the primary side supply when the inductor has a strong magnetic field generated is enough. It is sometimes called "Starvation Arcing" as the supply path goes extremely high impedance(the Z of the open gap) while the inductor is resisting the change in current flow, results in very high peak voltages , thousands of volts. A flyback diode is cheap protection.
So much for internet rumors...Comment
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Zippy the Pin Head! Zap! How appropriate!Originally posted by Leo_Gnardo View PostRight on! And zip cord has it's own salesman, way better than Monster's. "Are we having fun yet?" At least he talks sense!Comment
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