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For the desperate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/dining/chi-hot-dougs-day-paulina-meat-market-20150224-story.html

Not with cables necessarily, but there is gobs of research (including fMRI) showing how very subtle suggestions can influence how people think. Maybe we can write a grant to get time on the new fMRI in Erika's building to do this

That's fair in that expectation bias can certainly have real effects. But I think that is a red herring here. I am talking about comparing actual systemic and repeatable differences where there is no expectation -- i.e., in a DBT. Specifically, just because there is a measurement technique, even one that has been around for a long time, does not mean it is useful or that it correlates to what people think it does. Unless one establishes a reason to think that some measurement is meaningful, relying on it is just as subjective as relying on anything else. As for speaker preferences, we can agree to disagree, though wouldn't an equivalent thickness of MDF be more damped than birch?

You are creating a false equivalence, and trying to make me look dumb in the process. Different power cables are thought by some to sound different likely because of a confirmation bias. There is no measurable difference, and in a double blind test, there would likely be no perceived difference. Different speakers (or different circuits) with clearly different measurements may actually sound different in a double blind test. In that case, the one with "better" measurements according to some scale may not be perceived as sounding better. The argument is that if this is the case, the scale is not well correlated with perceived quality. I'll take the one I prefer in a DBT over the one that your scope prefers according to some arbitrarily chose scale.

Wrong I can send you recordings taken from the brain stem showing how dissonant distortion is amplified and consonant distortion is minimized.

In this day and age when you can buy a basic CNC for around $500, I don't know why anyone would get out a jewelers saw.

That's way too simple. Different types of distortion are perceived differently due to both physiological and psychological factors. If one speaker sounds better, and another measures better according to some chosen scale, the scale is wrong.

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I had Conrad fail to respond to emails a few months ago. Once they finally did, they were very apologetic and offered me a big discount. I think someone there is just disorganized, so I'd try again. Not your exact size, but HeatsinkUSA might be an option.

There are still things connected together. Why would bringing the wires outside the box for a moment change whether or not the electrons want to be pampered by Techflex?

http://www.elma.com/en-eu/products/rotary-switches/audio-solutions/product-pages/a47-series-audio-attenuator-detail/ http://switch-products.shallco.com/item/rotary-switches/rotary-switches-industrial-and-military-grade/114-fm My experience is that the people at Elma are super nice and helpful. The people at Shallco are not. And I have been told from reputable people to expect to disassembled the Shallco to try to get it to align correctly.

Elma has a 46. And Shalco has a 63.

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I am late to the party, but I'll second Tube Depot, Jim McShane, and JJ EL84's.

I don't necessarily think a switcher is the end of the world. A) the noise can be filtered, and B ) the noise from rectifiers can be more of an issue. Whether this particular supply is any good, I have no idea. Aesthetically, it looks like it is frowning which seems like a poor marketing choice.

They do work in reverse! I'm just an idiot.

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Well, actually, 48 per board on 4 boards. But they all get attached together.

It is the source and drain that are flipped, and Fairchilds definitely work in reverse, but these don't seem to, although they do conduct. I'll keep testing in case it is something else not working, but so far it is a no go.

Soldered 200 surface mount JFETs and 400 surface mount resistors to a circuit board only to discover that Toshiba JFETs use a different pinout from everyone else.

http://www.partsconnexion.com/socket_tefcom.html