Impotence Question

Marco, You should have mentioned your 3 Systems from the Go-Go. I can understand the whole Kitchen system issue as there's Bacon grease splatter concerns.

I have owned most of the Bryston line-up, yet never had the need for one of their Switch Boxes. I do recall them also having Impedance Protection, as the Bryston units are built more robust for the pro-audio venue then the Niles units. The Brystons are made to handle wattage levels that their 7bst, and 14bst amps can crank out.

Getting to the bottom of your Switch Box question would be a worth while call to James Tanner at Bryston who would but your mind at rest. I would venture to say that your still running the same 8 ohm load, just splitting the wattage.

But then if it where me, I'd pass on the Switch Box entirely. I'd modify a ceiling hanging fruit basket to suspend a 4th system in the Kitchen. Then throw on some Billie Holiday, and enjoy my new Strange Fruit System Suspension Swing.

Did'nt I read somewhere that bacon grease makes for a good contact enhancer? If I did that "Strange Fruit" camo'd 4th system hanging from the ceiling like you suggest, it would soon become an audio-pinata when my wife found out what was inside. I can just see the rectifiers and plastic pineapple parts flying about the room once that broom handle starts swinging! I'll keep my cap at three systems and work the switchbox angle so I can take part in more of that squeezebox playing at night!

Marco

Marco, Yes using Bacon Grease as a contact enhancer makes the music flow with Silent Lucidity. But you can probably also experiment with the usage of lard, butter, margarine, vegetable shortening, Parkay, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!® (Fabio uses the later with his Krell system, when Jammin' with The Bird), Pam, Crisco, and quite possibly any cooking oil in place of bacon grease. I was tossing the "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" idea with your system numero uno, dos, tres, Fruit Salad. But now that you mentioned that your significant other speaks softly and carries a Big Stick, we may actually be getting to the root of your impotence issues. Yes the Switchbox is then the solution, so you can have more Squeezebox. As a fourth system may eventually set forth towards Swapbox, Swingbox, or just Simply Boxed Out. And I'm sure in the end you'd rather just be Living in a Box, Living in a Cardboard Box. So enjoy your 3 Systems, your Box, and still....Have a Super 4th, Happy Independance Day!

Actually, I carry the big stick. My S.O. does not speak all that softly. I prefer
the box I live in to cardboard, but I like my wife's squeeze-box best of all,
though i can't live there. I do enjoy the visits though. I'd like to use the same
contact enhancer as Fabio does on his Krell gear, but I CAN believe it's
definitely NOT butter, so I'll stick with the bacon grease instead. I got yer'
fruit salad right here my friend...numero uno y dos. Do you know what kind
of underware Fabio wears? Bet he carries a bit stick too? Boxers? Left side or
right? Bet Fabio doesn't have any swtichboxes at home, or dangling fruit
basket pinata stereo systems! Speaking of which, I heard that Kevin Deal over
at Upscale came out with a hanging fruitbasket system that'll knock your
socks off. There are two versions, both made over there in the former
People's Republic so they're as affordable as a pair of boxers! Actually the
same factory also produces boxers with pictures of tropical fruit on'em that
are so cheap the workers actually pay you to take a pair! The Prima Frutta
hanging fruitbasket systems were a hit with Stereophile who've given them
class B status. There are several aftermarket mod guru's here in the States as
well as in Canada that are authorized to do the mods on those babies,
replacing all the caps with audiophile grade, as well as replacing the plastic
oranges and apples with superior European plastic fruit. The $900 mod takes
the units into class A, while the $1400 gets you a real wicker basket and
additional garnish bringing the baskets into what Art Dudley termed as
"...nothing short of fruitopia!...Blows away fruit basket systems ten
times more expensive...The fruit looks so real you'll want to eat 'em, but
don't; they'll make you sick!"

Marco

Taking a more purists standpoint when dealing with Kevin Bacon Greased Lightnin' contact enhancers, the shorter signal path, the better. For avoiding noise and degradation reducing the number of parts the signal goes through and thus minimize the length of the path from input to output, it's best to loose your Fruit of The Loom boxers, or briefs entirely and just go full out commando Bare Wire. I did just hear through the grapevine that the new fad mod for the Strange Fruit System Suspension Swing is no longer the plastic oranges and wax apples, but all about the Ginkgo Biloba rubber grapes. This odd question you ponder about, as far as what underwear Fabio wears? If I had to take a wild guess, I would think that it's safe to assume that Fabio may be a DK design by Donna Karen Edible Undies wearer?

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