Snake oil?

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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited February 2005
    Russ,

    Yep, I've sent some awsome static looping through the chain when I forgot to discharge on something else before grabbing the tube pre volume pot. That factor alone makes it worth a try.

    Shack,

    Thanks for the link. If I tried it, I think I'd just turn my own on the cheap. Dried elephant crap might survive on the lathe at high RPM - two birds, one stone. ;)
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited February 2005
    We need to invent/market an "audiohphile-grade" static discharge 'device' that sits in your component rack. $$$:)
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by PolkThug
    We need to invent/market an "audiohphile-grade" static discharge 'device' that sits in your component rack. $$$:)

    Good idea! I wonder if the static mats marketed for under the CDP do the trick. Seems like they would have to have a ground source.

    Spraying a light bit of Woolite on the carpet in front of the component rack solves the problem temporarily. Downside is all the sheep bleating at the front door.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited February 2005
    I just touch the rack during the cold, low(er) humidity days. Everything is on feet and blocks and platforms anyway.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2005
    mmmmm....sheep
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    mmmmm....sheep

    Like you don't face your CD's North every night to keep the magnaflux transiums aligned!
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited February 2005
    Looks like someone got demoted.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,769
    edited February 2005
    My simple solution to static discharge.......use the remote.



    PT, you really need to keep up. Russ asked that his "label" be removed a long time ago. :)
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited February 2005
    I need no title.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by F1nut
    PT, you really need to keep up. Russ asked that his "label" be removed a long time ago. :)

    doh!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    I need no title.

    Translation: "I defy description."
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  • jmierzur
    jmierzur Posts: 489
    edited February 2005
    FYI,

    Stereophile Test CD 3, track 21, has a "Home Theater reference & demagnetizing tone".

    Did it work? Could not determine as I had a 19 month old playing in the room at the time. Will try again at a future date.


    PS - I did notice that my CDs are aligned north/south, but not with magnetic north.;)
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by jmierzur
    Stereophile Test CD 3, track 21, has a "Home Theater reference & demagnetizing tone".

    Don't do it!!!! I played this tone in my house and my blender quit working and the fans in my computer stopped turning and all the magnets fell of my refrigerator!!!!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by PolkThug
    Don't do it!!!! I played this tone in my house and all the magnets fell of my refrigerator!!!!
    That's terrible....How do you know where to call for pizza delivery or take-out chinese?
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

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  • jmierzur
    jmierzur Posts: 489
    edited February 2005
    Originally posted by PolkThug
    Don't do it!!!! I played this tone in my house and my blender quit working and the fans in my computer stopped turning and all the magnets fell of my refrigerator!!!!

    Too late! Now I have to start building my system all over again. Glad I don't have problems like you do.

    Over.
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