[time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery

[Max Robinson]

I'm going to forward this over to the fun with tubes list.  Most of the guys 
over there get a big kick out of the nuts who spend big bucks on oxygen free 
copper wire and other nutty things for their sound systems.

Regards.

Max.  K 4 O D S.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com>
To: <jfor at quik.com>; "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery


> On 5 July 2010 06:10, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>> Why stop there? How about buying Russian Hydrogen MASERs and putting them
>> in hand-rubbed old growth teak boxes and selling them for $995,000?
>
> They are pulling out 14,500 y/o kauri trees (hard wood) out of peat
> bogs over here which are perfectly preserved in the lack of oxygen (I
> have a cutting board made out of some). Maybe the boxes should be made
> out of this wood because it has a zero oxygen content and was grown
> before the advent of electricity and radio signals so none of these
> are trapped inside it and will not interfere with the quality of the
> audio. Also the very tight and narrow rings in the wood increase the
> high frequency response and do not attenuate the reference frequency
> of the HM leading to perfect sound. Combined with silver stranded litz
> wire bunches rolled together on the thighs of virgin Cuban young woman
> during a lunar eclipse to exclude the effects of solar flares.
>
>> Think big.
>
> This is interesting!
>
> Steve
>
>> -John
>>
>> ==================
>>
>>
>>> Maybe we are into the wrong sort of projects here, instead of knocking
>>> together $10 "testers" we should get some cheap Rb units off fluke.l
>>> and start turning out $15,000 audio equipment. Can you imagine how
>>> much you could get for your ageing tube Cs unit in this phools market!
>>> :)
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 4 July 2010 19:33, Rob Kimberley <rk at timing-consultants.com> wrote:
>>>> Maybe we've all been missing something in our timing projects.
>>>> Must get some of that high purity 6N copper wire.......
>>>> :-)
>>>> Rob K
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of J. Forster
>>>> Sent: 03 July 2010 10:51 PM
>>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>>> Subject: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> master_clocks/g-0rb/ <http://esoteric.teac.com/master_clocks/g-0rb/>
>>>>
>>>> About $15,000.
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> ================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
>>> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
>>> - Einstein
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