"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"François Yves Le Gal" wrote in
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:37:54 -0500, "Robert Morein"
wrote:

Not in the entire history of audio. Never, anywhere, has
this happened.

Care to back yet another outrageous assertion with some
facts, Morein?

I doubt that he can.

(1) It's a negative hypothesis, which is difficult or impossible to prove.
Not at all. If people were killed in this way, I'm sure some audiophiles,
somewhere, would know about it.

There is no evidence whatsoever that a single person in a planet of six
billion has died as a consequence of the advocated use.


(2) It presumes that had such a thing happened, it would have been
reported and publicized.

As indeed it would.

Let's review:

(1) There are safe ways to address the same grounding problems that it has
been proposed be dealt with by lifting the safety ground.

Sometimes, sometimes not. I advocate the cheater plug only as the last
resort. Whether the user wishes to discard equipment that can function well
is, of course, up to him. If he has lots of disposable income, he can do it.
Alot of us consider such cost totally unreasonable.

All alternative methods should be explored.

(2) The origional tweek recommended lifting the safety ground even when
there was no clear-cut grounding problem.

Not correct. The cheater plug should not be used unless there is a hum
problem, and should not be left in the circuit if there is no improvement.


Lifting the safety ground is simply a dumb thing to do.

If it solves the problem, it is a very smart thing to do. The hazard is
purely hypothetical.