HiFi-Tuning Silver/Gold Fuses

[k4kyv]

I thought I had heard it all, until...

Quote[/b] ]Light a fuse!

Do your high end components use 5¢ fuses?

Can there be any doubt that this is a "choke point" in the performance of these components?

Get ready for the big bang!

Now you can purchase true audiophile grade fuses:

* hand made and tested in Germany

* gold over silver end caps

* pure silver wiring

* <span style='color:Red'>ceramic casing, rather than glass, for better resonance characteristics</span>.

Beware of overpriced commercial fuses with nothing more than gold-plated end caps and nice packaging!

A phool and his money are soon parted!

http://www.fatwyre.com/FATWYRE/fatwyre/featuredprods.html

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[AG3Y]

Oh, that is one of my favorite examples of the old addage &quot;you can fool some of the people all of the time . . . . &quot; ! I can't begin to tell you some of the lulus that I have heard regarding Hi-Fidelity sound reproduction. Thanks for pointing out the page. Great for some big laughs!

73, Jim

[WB2WIK]

There's nothing wrong with this stuff.

FOR SALE: Gold plated fuses. 100% tested as good, and very low impedance, low noise, low loss, low sulphur and low sodium. Guaranteed maximum resistance 10 milliohms, you cannot get lower than that with a regular fuse. If you can prove me wrong, I'll eat a bug.

Send $20 cash, check, money order or S&amp;H trading stamps to: WB2WIK/6 c/o Pony Express Stable #12A, Attn: Jacque the brute, Whinnnny, CA 91000.

If you don't receive your fuses within 7 days, please go to: Helen Waite.

Thank you.

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Aug. 23 2006,18:48)]* hand made and tested in Germany
Tested... &lt;gigglesnort&gt; So if it doesn't blow, they ship it? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[ka0gkt]

The Hi-Fi biz has been rife with smoke and mirrors since before Stereo Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordings on 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs.

Besides WIK, can anyone out there answer this:

What has a better frequency response, a Monaural FM tuner or a Stereo FM tuner? Why?

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve

[wa4brl]

My mono and stereo tuners' frequency response's are virtually flat from 88 MHz through 108 MHz.

[KW4MW]

I was going to get some of that electroplating goo, hook the brush up to my battery terminals and silverplate my antennas - thanks guys, you talked me out of it.

[KA9VQF]

Quote[/b] (KW4MW @ Aug. 24 2006,06:36)]I was going to get some of that electroplating goo, hook the brush up to my battery terminals and silverplate my antennas #- thanks guys, you talked me out of it.
Ah,… I don’t know your car might look good with black tarnished silver electroplated antenna whips on it.
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[kl7aj]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Aug. 23 2006,18:48)]I thought I #had heard it all, until...

Quote[/b] ]Light a fuse!

Do your high end components use 5¢ fuses?

Can there be any doubt that this is a &quot;choke point&quot; in the performance of these components?

Get ready for the big bang!

Now you can purchase true audiophile grade fuses:

* hand made and tested in Germany

* gold over silver end caps

* pure silver wiring

* <span style='color:Red'>ceramic casing, rather than glass, for better resonance characteristics</span>.

Beware of overpriced commercial fuses with nothing more than gold-plated end caps and nice packaging!

A phool and his money are soon parted!

http://www.fatwyre.com/FATWYRE/fatwyre/featuredprods.html

<span style='color:Blue'>Testimonials Page</span> (http://www.fatwyre.com/FATWYRE/fatwyre/featuredprodstestimonial.html)
When it comes to Audiophools, you can never hear it all.

If P.T. Barnum were alive today, he'd have a field day with these Cro-Magnons.

eric

[kl7aj]

Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Aug. 23 2006,23:01)]The Hi-Fi biz has been rife with smoke and mirrors since before Stereo Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordings on 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs.

Besides WIK, can anyone out there answer this:

What has a better frequency response, a Monaural FM tuner or a Stereo FM tuner? #Why?

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve
They're identical, because the FCC requires a brick wall at 16 KHz on FM broadcast stations.

[WB2WIK]

Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Aug. 23 2006,23:01)]The Hi-Fi biz has been rife with smoke and mirrors since before Stereo Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordings on 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs.

Besides WIK, can anyone out there answer this:

What has a better frequency response, a Monaural FM tuner or a Stereo FM tuner? Why?

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve
Crap...

Okay, won't comment on the mono vs. stereo issue.

But I've received a flood of orders for my fuses and now I'm not like Rocket Man, burnin' out my fuse out here alone. But I think it's gonna be a long, long time... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[KG6OPR]

...Well its easy to let the smoke out, alot harder to put back in! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[AG3Y]

Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Aug. 24 2006,02:01)]The Hi-Fi biz has been rife with smoke and mirrors since before Stereo Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordings on 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs.

Besides WIK, can anyone out there answer this:

What has a better frequency response, a Monaural FM tuner or a Stereo FM tuner? Why?

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve
I know the answer, but I am going to disqualify myself, because. . . .&quot; We're Professionals &quot; ( tnx Mythbusters ! )

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[AG3Y]

Quote[/b] (kl7aj @ Aug. 24 2006,11:21)]Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ Aug. 23 2006,23:01)]The Hi-Fi biz has been rife with smoke and mirrors since before Stereo Orthophonic High Fidelity Recordings on 33 1/3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs.

Besides WIK, can anyone out there answer this:

What has a better frequency response, a Monaural FM tuner or a Stereo FM tuner? Why?

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve
They're identical, because the FCC requires a brick wall at 16 KHz on FM broadcast stations.
Nope, he's asking about RECEIVERS, NOT Transmitters ! ! !

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[kf6rdn]

Would that be taking signal strength and or pre/de-emphasis into account?

[ka0gkt]

The 16 KHz top frequency in FM transmissions is more of a receiver problem than a transmission problem. #Stereophonic stations don't transmit anything close to the 19KHz pilot in order to allow the older MPX decoders to properly operate. #Monaural stations may not modulate in the frequency range of 125 Hz through 19KHz. See § 73.322 (below) and remember that FM stations are allowed to transmit information of various types on Subcarriers (sometimes referred to as SCAs).

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve



§ 73.322 FM stereophonic sound transmission
standards.
(a) An FM broadcast station shall not
use 19 kHz ±20 Hz, except as the stereophonic
pilot frequency in a transmission
system meeting the following
parameters:

(a) An FM broadcast station shall not
use 19 kHz ±20 Hz, except as the stereophonic
pilot frequency in a transmission
system meeting the following
parameters:
(1) The modulating signal for the
main channel consists of the sum of
the right and left signals.
(2) The pilot subcarrier at 19 kHz ±2
Hz, must frequency modulate the main
carrier between the limits of 8 and 10
percent.
(3) One stereophonic subcarrier must
be the second harmonic of the pilot
subcarrier (i.e., 38 kHz) and must cross
the time axis with a positive slope simultaneously
with each crossing of the
time axis by the pilot subcarrier. Additional
stereophomic subcarriers are not
precluded.
(4) Double sideband, suppressed-carrier,
amplitude modulation of the
stereophonic subcarrier at 38 kHz must
be used.
(5) The stereophonic subcarrier at 38
kHz must be suppressed to a level less
than 1% modulation of the main carrier.
(6) The modulating signal for the required
stereophonic subcarrier must be
equal to the difference of the left and
right signals.
(7) The following modulation levels
apply:
channel of a two channel (biphonic)
sound transmission, modulation of the
carrier by audio components within the
baseband range of 50 Hz to 15 kHz shall
not exceed 45% and modulation of the
carrier by the sum of the amplitude
modulated subcarrier in the baseband
range of 23 kHz to 53 kHz shall not exceed
45%.
(ii) When a signal exists in only one
channel of a stereophonic sound transmission
having more than one stereophonic
subcarrier in the baseband, the
modulation of the carrier by audio
components within the audio baseband
range of 23 kHz to 99 kHz shall not exceed
53% with total modulation not to
exceed 90%.
(b) Stations not transmitting stereo
with the method described in (a), must
limit the main carrier deviation caused
by any modulating signals occupying
the band 19 kHz ±20 Hz to 125 Hz.
( c ) All stations, regardless of the
stereophonic transmission system
used, must not exceed the maximum
modulation limits specified in
§ 73.1570(b)(2). Stations not using the
method described in (a), must limit the
modulation of the carrier by audio
components within the audio baseband
range of 23 kHz to 99 kHz to not exceed
53%.
[51 FR 17029, May 8, 1986]

[ka5piu]

Hello.

In theory Mono has a better frequency response.
Now, he did not limit this to broadcast FM, and even so, what about television audio, remember, that also is FM.

[AC0H]

Hey,
Ham Radio retailers aren't above this sort of thing either.
Ran across one selling gold plated UG-176 adapters. They're the little adapters you use with PL-259's and RG-8X.