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Joke: two passengers were sitting together on a commercial jet. One passenger turns to the other and says, hey, look at the people down there, they look like ants. The other passenger replies, they are ants, we haven't left the ground yet.
G. Kait,
Machina Dynamica
Fatts Waller:
“One never knows, does one?”
“If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it”
Anonymous (paraphrased):
“better to keep your mouth shut & let people assume you an idiot than to open it and prove it is fact”
Einstein:
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
Lewis Carroll’s -Through the Looking Glass- by the White Queen:
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Geoff C. Kait
Machugana Dramatica
I've decided to put this here so it doesn't distract from other threads flow.
Where rubber meets the road by Geoff
michael green wrote:
My systems stay on and playing music 24/7. I reset the system every once in a while but not often. This of course is not so good for tubes but excellent for well balanced components. I've done identical systems testing with this and the system left running by far out performs the start up system in a low mass setup. Higher mass systems with dampened parts start to fade after about 9 hours. These are general cause every component is different, but for a higher mass system that has rubber touching the transformer or other parts will start to get in it's sweet spot around 2 hours into the play and as I said fade about 9 hours into playing. The same component with the rubber removed will play a lot longer.
michael green
MGA/RoomTune
Rubber as damping material? No wonder you have such an emphatic bias against the whole concept of damping. No offense intended. I'm not hot dogging you, I would put rubber right up there with Sonex, lead and Sorbothane. Some of the worst materials ever foisted on gullible audiophiles! Hey, now I think I see why you guys don't like springs - you're confusing springs with springy things! For EFFECTIVE damping materials you'll need to explore the big wide world of constrained layer damping and viscoelastic materials or certain types of resonators, materials and devices that convert energy to heat, as opposed to materials like rubber that STORE energy. All the harm done by stove piping over the years can eventually be corrected. - old audiophile expression
With respect to warm up, my Class A tube gear sounds more open and natural when given a 60 minute warm up although you can listen to it after five minutes. My Oppo 103 is left on most of the time, better safe than sorry. For tube longevity, given that I am using VERY expensive tubes in my headphone amp, I use an O2 Cool outboard fan. Speaking of which, if you want an example of an EFFECTIVE damper look no further than Herbies tube dampers.
Cheers,
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Hi Geoff
It might be a lot easier to see what I think or don't think by visiting
http://tuneland.techno-zone.net/ or www.tuneland.info . It would save you a lot of time in saying things that you are assuming about me, my studies and my opinions.
michael green
MGA/RoomTune
I promise not to mention rubber again.
Sincerely,
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica