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Old 6th Oct 2017, 6:07 pm   #48
Skywave
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Talking Re: 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post
"Stranded wire has many places where the strands touch together and this smears the sound" - priceless!
Adding a screen reduces the openness and spatiality - or words to that effect....
To give any quantitative meaning to "smeariness" and "spatiality", the author should have added a few appropriate remarks as to what units are used to determine those phenomena - such as "smears per mm." and "spats per cc."

Years ago, when I was employed by a derivative of Eddystone Radio, in the test dep't. were the customary Raaco racks holding spare parts. One such drawer was labelled "Spare electrons". However, when you withdrew the drawer, on a piece of paper was the message: "Oh come, come! You didn't really expect to find electrons in here, did you?"

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Originally Posted by David G4EBT View Post
Thought for the day:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
And my contribution:
"The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and human stupidity, although not necessarily in that order".

Al.

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