17-12-2011, 12:34
I've just remembered an embarrassing story to illustrate the lengths loony audiophiles will go to to squeeze out the last fraction of performance.
When I first got into high quality audio gear, the magazines in the UK were full of advice on how to get the best from your equipment, and I remember reading that someone had found that the lacquer applied to the brass pins on mains plugs could adversely affect sound reproduction. The advice was to use metal cleaner to remove the lacquer from your mains plugs. I tried this, but you had to keep doing it regularly because the lack of lacquer caused the pins to oxidise, which needed to be removed to prevent audio deterioration.
I was convinced it worked, and kept it up for a year or so. Didn't cost much...
What a tosser !!
When I first got into high quality audio gear, the magazines in the UK were full of advice on how to get the best from your equipment, and I remember reading that someone had found that the lacquer applied to the brass pins on mains plugs could adversely affect sound reproduction. The advice was to use metal cleaner to remove the lacquer from your mains plugs. I tried this, but you had to keep doing it regularly because the lack of lacquer caused the pins to oxidise, which needed to be removed to prevent audio deterioration.
I was convinced it worked, and kept it up for a year or so. Didn't cost much...
What a tosser !!
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