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From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Deliberately designed to measure great AND sound rotten
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Date: 3 Jan 91 14:11:30 GMT
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>     Everyone agreed that the box's presence
>     changed the sound from good to horrible even though the
>     measurements predicted identical sound.
>

I _think_ I remember that the article said the box contained:
     A timer and a DPDT mercury-wetted-relay.

     The relay shorts the signal output to ground for 1.0 milliseconds.
     This occurs once every N seconds (N=4??).  Enough to drive
     listeners batty but not enough to perturb the measurement gear.
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