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From: rck@ihuxv.ATT.COM (R. C. Kukuk)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.physics,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
Message-ID: <2115@ihuxv.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 12:24:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 12:24:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 18:14:32 EDT
References: <3816@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <3939@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2166@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: Hg filled speaker wires
Xref: mnetor rec.audio:3202 sci.physics:2142 sci.electronics:1272

In article <2166@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes:
> In article <3816@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> bmaraldo@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) writes:
> >
> >  I just made a set of 2m long 5mm in diameter mercury filled cables with
> >  copper touch conductors and large lugs.
> >
> 
> I can see the review by Anthony Cordesman now:
> 
> 	"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality
> 	of horns has to be heard to be believed.  There is a silvery
> 	quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery
> 	sound normally associated with speaker cable...
	However, when the cables are jarred, an echo chamber effect is
	heard as compression waves travel back and forth in the mer-
	cury ...
> 
Ron Kukuk
AT&T Bell Labs

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