"Tim Williams" wrote in
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"my_name_here" wrote in message
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"Son? Says the man with the Homer Simpson sig. Oh my.

Yep, grown men (well, I'm 18, but apparently more mature than you)
enjoy the sarcastic humor of The Simpsons too. What a revalation...

Tim

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Uh-huh.

Richard wrote in
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He probably meant they have less noise, but sound better?? How, pray
tell?


Don't know, don't recall the complete text of the article. I would think
on the basis of lower noise it's already justifiable. It seems to me though
it was more than that. When a designer of his stature talks though, I
listen. I've seen a few weird interactions, for example low value film
coupling caps that for some reason seem more prone to RF (foil was
connected to the low impedance side) and unquestionably made things sound
worse without obviously hearing radio stations. So much depends on the
system and even how much time you spend critically listening, locked into
its characteristics and sensitive to any change.
A possibility - any, if not most, common resisitors have copper-covered
steel leads and end caps. A cheap experiment is wiring your system with
interconnects made of steel conductors. There's plenty of cheap coax around
that fits the bill. It's the only time my brother has ever felt he could
hear wire and didn't like what he heard.
However this whole debate has raged since long before Usenet and it's a
pointless discussion. Bob's mega-smarmy "I'm am technician so know
everything" BS just set me off on a bad day and made me break a promise I
made to myself on dropping out of rec.audio.perpetual-flamewar ten years
ago: never respond to .edu's.