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Re: Speaker cable?
#95180 05/20/05 11:21 PM
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Well pmbuko

Good to see your sense of humor is as intact as your sense of hearing.


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Re: Speaker cable?
#95181 05/20/05 11:38 PM
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I know humor when I see it. Or hear it, come to think of it.

Re: Speaker cable?
#95182 05/21/05 01:56 AM
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As always, it should be kept in mind that the right to express an opinion doesn't include a right to be taken seriously. When an opinion based merely on casual listening flys in the face of well-established audio engineering principles it won't be taken seriously by those knowledgeable of those principles.


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#95183 05/21/05 02:08 AM
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2x6: you got me, I give up. LOL!! I don't know much about wine but I enjoy a glass or two every once in a while.

I would enjoy sipping a glass or two with you. What do you recommend?

Remember, here in Alabama we don't have the CA variety or selection.

From someone who knows next to nothing about wine.

The Rat.


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#95184 05/21/05 02:24 AM
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Oh yeah! All that you say may be true but once the wine bottles are broken in, all bets are off.


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#95185 05/21/05 02:51 AM
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I'm afraid, my friend, that what you say is quite true.

LOL!

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Re: Speaker cable?
#95186 05/21/05 03:43 AM
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Geez, I am just getting back to the board since my post last night. It looks like I threw a hand grenade into the room, shut the door and left. Everyone - I'm truly sorry about that.

Until a month or so ago I had no experience with zinfandels. Despite being almost exclusively a drinker of red wines. As luck would have it I was out for dinner with a colleague and he ordered a bottle of Beringer 1997 North Coast zinfandel. Wow, I was really impressed with it. Great complex taste and oh so smooth. I've had no luck finding it in the stores around here. I tried Beringers 1998 Cold lake zin and it was quite pleasant, but not nearly in the same class as the 1997 North Coast. I also tried Beringers Founders Estate versions, but they are pretty germane. And to think it was widely available a few years ago for a measly $5.

C'est la vie.
Paul

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#95187 05/21/05 05:08 AM
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Paul M, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you only think you liked that zin. I'm afraid your opinion as to how that zin tasted is really worthless in the face of well established scientific principles. I mean, all naturally fermented wines consist of about 87.7% water and 11.1% alcohol. H2O and C6H12O6, 1% acid and .02% tannins ... oh, I love all that talk about wine with cherry and blackcurrant, liquorice and oak, brash finish, yadayada ... please.

And those guys are right about speaker wire. String is just as good.

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Re: Speaker cable?
#95188 05/21/05 05:17 AM
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OK, here's the deal. Run several different wines through a gas chromatograph and/or mass spectrometer, and you will find some rather large differences. Run a similar battery of electrical tests on various speaker cables, and surprise, you WON'T SEE THOSE TYPES OF DIFFERENCES.

Now, your precious Mapleshade thinner-than-a-human-hair cable probably DOES make a difference. Because it's so thin, it's probably adding resistance, much like putting a resistor into ones M60s. So it rounds off the highs, and sounds oh-so-sweet. There, you're right. Happy now?


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#95189 05/21/05 01:01 PM
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If you like Zins look around for Saucelito Canyon.
All of their recent vintages are great.
135 year old vines, dry farmed, just a father and mother and son & wife making a few thousand cases a year.
And, for what they sell it for the folks from the big "R" zin producers (Ridge, Ravenswood, Raffanelli, Rosenblum, ect...) should hang their heads.



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