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Subject: cables (I might like gold)
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 03:43:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 03:43:38 1984
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>I had a friend who accidentally double-blind tested cables on
>his roommate...
>...(description of notable change on going to better cables)
>Note 4.  The change might have been caused by the clean connections
>(no oxide) after the new cables were installed.  The cables proabably
>had not been touched for a few months (2-6), but things rot pretty
>fast in Houston.

I just recently finished tracing an utterly obnoxious problem in my own
system--sort of a scratchy sound in the high end in one channel.  It
sounded a lot like a badly mistracking cartridge.  After considerable
chasing, I found that the cause was a scuzzzy connection between preamp and
power amp.  A few experiments seemed to indicate that a teeny amount of
vibration (from low bass) was vibrating where the amp sits and making its
input connection vibrate a little, generating some intermittent noise.  The
connection (standard phone plugs, NOT gold) was hooked up no more than
six months ago.  Unlike Houston, it's pretty dry here.  I'm actually
somewhat surprised that it went to hell so fast, but I'm sure the problem
is what I described--enough tests confirmed it.  aaaack.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.