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It's news to me if that's foul language.. people use the F word and worse on here and this is the first time I've seen such a comment. Marco got his SS out now eh...
After a bang out of order PM I...

That's an excellent point Alan!

Why wouldn't anyone want to use RG58 for interconnects? I do :eyebrows:

What language? What derogatory remark apparently removed by Marco? It reads the same as I recall typing. I'm not aware of anything having been removed and I know nothing of any derogatory remark.

That's entirely correct yes.

Line level audio is a generally "non critical" use for plugs and sockets, the single most critical being the input of a phono stage for MC.

We are talking at very...

People will have to make up their own minds on this...

One often sees these at Lidl and other such German stores and despite being cheap and made in China they often have German "VDE" and/or EU...

I did for a week or so up to a few days ago after doing my back in by the risky athletic activity of getting into the passenger seat of a mates car! Unbelievable... All I know is as my weight fully...

Mostly EHT rectifiers and efficiency diodes with many other TV valves in there as well. The EF184 is a great valve and under used IMHO. The PC88, PCL86 and PCF82 have audio potential but only to...

I've got one I bought for £3.99 from Netto's and it works perfectly well. Obviously I use quality ones in my day to day work but it's handy to have one that can be considered disposable to take if...

You're taking the piss now Marco. You can't force people to enter debates! I don't wish to discuss connectors with you as no matter what I say, based on decades of electronic engineering experience...

Purely to placate plonkers who think valves are automatically better and to gain more sales from exploiting this assumption. It's quite prevalent... think of all the CD players and DAC's which...

Fine but massively better than needed for setting bias!

I don't think that Stereophile article explains what a buffer is very well at all.

A buffer is a device with a very high input impedance and low output impedance. There is one in one form or...

Screwfix ones will be fine and probably 10 x better than needed for this....

There's no such thing as such. One of those cheapo Chinese multimeters is way more than good enough for your needs. £5 should do it.

Same thing electrically in terms of the info from Andrew there goes....

The transformers used in much sought after studio gear are reputed to be the main source of colourations that results in...

It's just as much in the "signal path" as the one that's visually in the signal path!

I won't bother... as you won't be told you are wrong on anything... :ner:

I've never noticed any lack of drive, slam or dynamics when using a passive... nor is it technically possible for there to be any such loss! (sounds like symptoms of needing to turn the volume up to...

Wiring error.

Well as long as you're happy but I wouldn't use one no matter how good it sounds because a stepped attenuator is better. It may not sound better to some but it is better as it is...

I would say that they are completely accurate and perfect in an audio context. The only thing more accurate is a frequency compensated stepped attenuator in a 50 Ohm system and this is irrelevant...

Each to their own but personally I don't think there's any difference worth noting between decent quality passive attenuators. They do sound better than a typical pot though in my experience. I also...

I recall there being bugger all difference between them, as expected, (not none at all but barely noticeable and I was wondering if I was kidding myself that I could hear any difference really) apart...

Oh I'm well aware of the earlier incarnation of it yes. There was even a 2 way bookshelf with just a B139 and T27!
As far as purchase tax anomalies go well I don't know the full SP and it seems lost...

It may well be that 3 unit speakers were automatically "professional" for tax purposes but it also depended on woofer size. A 2 unit speaker with at least one dimension of 12" in the drive unit was...

Indeed but there was also a driver size limit with too small = domestic. They could quote the longer dimension of the elliptical cone and get round it that way!

This is according to the book ...