is this guy is related to a Polkie?
voltz
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Just saw this and wondered if....
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463
will the link won't work
TOKYO — Takeo Morita wanted absolutely the best fidelity possible from his audio system, so he bought a utility pole.
The 82-year-old lawyer already had a $60,000 American-made amplifier, 1960s German loudspeakers that once belonged to a theater, Japanese audio cables threaded with gold and silver, and other pricey equipment.
Normal electricity just wouldn’t do anymore. To tap into what Morita calls “pure” power, he paid $10,000 to plant a 40-foot-tall concrete pole in his front yard. On it perches his own personal transformer — that thing shaped like a cylindrical metal garbage can — which feeds power more directly from the grid.
“Electricity is like blood. If it is tainted, the whole body will get sick,” says Morita. “No matter how expensive the audio equipment is, it will be no good if the blood is bad.”
Demonstrating his power’s purity, he mounts a turntable with a vinyl record of Queen’s “I’m in Love With My Car,” settles into his sofa and beams. Pre-pole, he says, the vocals didn’t sound as lively as this.
“Now, it feels like Queen is in this room, just for me.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463
will the link won't work
TOKYO — Takeo Morita wanted absolutely the best fidelity possible from his audio system, so he bought a utility pole.
The 82-year-old lawyer already had a $60,000 American-made amplifier, 1960s German loudspeakers that once belonged to a theater, Japanese audio cables threaded with gold and silver, and other pricey equipment.
Normal electricity just wouldn’t do anymore. To tap into what Morita calls “pure” power, he paid $10,000 to plant a 40-foot-tall concrete pole in his front yard. On it perches his own personal transformer — that thing shaped like a cylindrical metal garbage can — which feeds power more directly from the grid.
“Electricity is like blood. If it is tainted, the whole body will get sick,” says Morita. “No matter how expensive the audio equipment is, it will be no good if the blood is bad.”
Demonstrating his power’s purity, he mounts a turntable with a vinyl record of Queen’s “I’m in Love With My Car,” settles into his sofa and beams. Pre-pole, he says, the vocals didn’t sound as lively as this.
“Now, it feels like Queen is in this room, just for me.”
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I can make it happen.
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That's just crazy. Everybody knows there is zero difference in electricity.
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He's on to something with his own 40 foot power pole, but concrete ?
A true audiophile would have used a 40 foot power pole made out of lignum vitae.
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Uhm .... I was kind of joking about the wood part.
Although, come to think about it, lignum vitae treated with with platypus tongue oil, then wrapped in 24K 10mm gold veneer (not leaf) would be acceptable. Maybe. 
Sal Palooza -
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Wood is more expensive and scarce in Japan compared to North America.
Concrete or steel distribution poles would be more common there than here.
all because they use all the wood for chop sticks:)
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and fortune cookie paper
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Here is a clean link (at least it was when I found it on Discogs)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have-it-all-a-personal-utility-pole-1471189463 -
on my list.
scratch that...
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I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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