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>Anything that comes out of the wall in a hotel is perfectly ordinary electical juice. Hmm. I'm not so sure if that's true for some of the hotels I've stayed at.
I was impressed to find these little guys driving the hefty JAS Audio Plato loudspeakers ($24,800/pair).
The discs were spun by Esoteric, power conditioning by Furutech, and mercurial glow by Passthru.
John Atkinson caught the cables' strange glow on film, but, in reality, they were plain-Jane. Can anyone tell us why they appear to be glowing?
If John used a digital camera that had an automatic gain setting, where the impulses from the camera get scaled so that the largest value represents white, this might provide a plausible answer. If he used a flash and the surface of the cables was more reflective than the dull, brushed aluminum of the amps (which would tend to diffuse light) and the cables caught the light and were the brightest objects framed," the impulses from less reflective objects might be insignificant in comparison to the 'white-level' so that the contrast might become enhanced. The cables might appear ""blown out""... just a guess.