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From: nospam on 26 Sep 2006 16:47 "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> Most annoying: A cretin at Radio Shack who was trying to tell me I >> needed a gold-anodized antenna to receive color TV ;-) > Did you tell him that the "Gold" is simply a dye used when it was >anodized? For color reception only the color is important - duh. --
From: Homer J Simpson on 26 Sep 2006 17:15 "nospam" <nospam(a)please.invalid> wrote in message news:mc4jh29bgm5stc99950ho5li1btdi371q0(a)4ax.com... >>> Most annoying: A cretin at Radio Shack who was trying to tell me I >>> needed a gold-anodized antenna to receive color TV ;-) >> Did you tell him that the "Gold" is simply a dye used when it was >>anodized? And that it isn't really anodizing - often it's just a color laquer. > For color reception only the color is important - duh.
From: Homer J Simpson on 26 Sep 2006 17:27 "Joerg" <notthisjoergsch(a)removethispacbell.net> wrote in message news:6wgSg.13405$Ij.5158(a)newssvr14.news.prodigy.com... > The magic potion in that sealer bath is what gives you 10dB more :-) > > I am pretty immune to the whole audio-phool saga but I must say that when > I listened through a tube amp at a friend's house I was rather impressed. > The dynamic range was incredible. You could set it to full blast and when > the source (but not the amp) was turned off you could crawl into speaker > and here nothing. Not the faintest hiss. > > Ok, it cost a whopping $1200 because it was hand-built. But he had a > higher end amp before that which wasn't cheap either but not even close in > dynamic range. You should have read some of the English Hi-Fi magazines in the 60's and 70's. Some guys built two full horn systems under the living room floor with the mouths at one end of the room. You needed a balcony rail to not fall in!
From: Michael A. Terrell on 26 Sep 2006 19:34 nospam wrote: > > "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > >> Most annoying: A cretin at Radio Shack who was trying to tell me I > >> needed a gold-anodized antenna to receive color TV ;-) > > > Did you tell him that the "Gold" is simply a dye used when it was > >anodized? > > For color reception only the color is important - duh. Then you want the Red, Green and Blue anodized model. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Steve on 27 Sep 2006 14:05
In article <memo.20060927185504.2800F(a)rook.127.0.0.1>, j80k-vpfc(a)dea.spamcon.org (Steve) wrote: > uniross. aarrgghh.. they went and made it live !! you'll find those two the same now. - Steve |