What am I ???

Ah I see... I've noticed things being a little slow and 'clunky' recently, but everything seems ok now.

I'm afraid it's down to the server, Bluehost. The smooth running of the forum is directly proportional to what's happening at their end in the US - if they're having problems then so will we, and there's bugger all we can do about it :(

It's a 'grin and bear it' one, I'm afraid, until it sorts itself out.

Marco.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know AoS was being hosted in the USA. It may be worth keeping an eye on their status page here (and adding theartofsound.net to the list of domains to watch):

http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/

Thanks for the link, Martin. We'll keep a check on that :)

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Nice one, Mike - good result! So is 'the boss' letting you keep the money to spend on goodies? :eyebrows:

Marco.

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To quote Manuel "I know nothing"..... ;)

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Originally Posted by MartinT

They look like some Monitor Audio (I think) speaker cable I used to have years ago. Highly capacitive, if I remember correctly, and known to cause Naim amps problems.

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Agree, they do look like Monitor Audio cables. These, if I remember correctly, were made in Japan and were designed to have a characteristic impedance of 8 Ohm, so matching 8 ohm speakers (!). To achieve this figure the cables had a very high capacitance per unit length (something like 1500pF/m); a BAD thing, and a commendably low inductance per unit length; a GOOD thing.

Technically complete nonsense, as the concept of characteristic impedance is irrelevent at audio frequencies, if the cables are less than a few kilometers long! Anyway the source impedance of the amp is not 8 ohm, but less than one hundredth of that figure.

Despite this, I believe the cables were said to have 'sounded' good.

Regards

To briefly go back to the original thread title, and in light of the not inconsiderable sum that eventually came via eBay, I think the correct answer is actually 'A Lucky Git' ;)