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. -- ---------------- Marty Sasaki net: sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp} Havard University Science Center phone: 617-495-1270 One Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
ron@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.