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!
Impotence Question
Now that I have your attention...my question is about impedance matching in speaker selectors. I have a Bryston 3-way speaker switch box, which does not have impedance matching/balancing. As far as I understand it is a simple three-way switch box with minimal signal path to travel. It has three on/off buttons which operate independently from each other. So I was curious what exactly happens when I switch my 100 watt amp to drive two pairs of 8-ohm monitors simultaneously (yes, besides the fact that both sets of speakers are playing)? Are there sacrifices in performance, and are those sacrifices linear or do they show up in different ways for each pair of speakers? It does not occur to me to drop the volume significantly in one pair of speakers when engaging the second pair which are downstairs, though I imagine this must happen as it's splitting the output of one amp between two pairs of speakers. So what is going on, and how does it differ from a selector which compensates for impedance? I think Niles actually terms their system "Impedance Protection".
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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? http://www.cform.dk/pages-global/en-main/frames/glass-en.htm The Ultimate "Class A = apple" suspension hanging Fru-It basket isolation system. |
Looks like Apple computers have taken a clue from the Audiophile community for once! Check out their new edition of the iPod!!! Marco |
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