sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) (04/24/85)
I got a fair amount of response to my ultimate speaker cable posting, so
here are more thoughts on it, some gleaned from the mail, others from
discussions with co-workers and my boss.
Copper flashing would allow one to solder wire to the foil and allow a
really good connection. Alternatively, one could fold the aluminum foil
into several layers and then sandwich the thick part between two
conductors that have been bolted together. Then apply Tweek to tighten
up the connection.
Someone mentioned using a layer of plastic under and over the foil to
help insulate the foil from the carpet and the floor. This would help
with things like spilling liquids and would keep the static electricity
that often builds up in the winter out of the stereo system.
The connection at the speaker end could be done using tip-toes.
Basically, the tip-toes are connected to the speaker binding leads and
the tip-toes are used to penetrate through the carpet to the foil. Once
again, you fold the foil over to get a decent thickness, and then you
apply Tweek. It might be a better idea to cut a small hole in the carpet
to avoid burning the carpet during heavy current flow.
Please note that there should be a liberal sprinkle of :-)'s in this
posting. I use 12 gauge multi-strand in my system since I couldn't hear
the difference between this and the various super-cables. I still
haven't heard from a super-cable advocate, and we don't archive
net.audio so I can't go back and look at the discussion of about a year
ago.
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Marty Sasaki net: sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
Havard University Science Center phone: 617-495-1270
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (04/26/85)
> Someone mentioned using a layer of plastic under and over the foil to > help insulate the foil from the carpet and the floor.This would help > with things like spilling liquids and would keep the static electricity > that often builds up in the winter out of the stereo system. I doubt that the plastic your likely to use will do anything to avoid static probems.