[time-nuts] "Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device"

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] "Antelope Audio Launches The Isochrone 10M Affordable Atomic Clocking Device"
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:10:24 +0000
Message-ID: <26789.1176991824 at critter.freebsd.dk>

> In message <4627762F.40508 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:
> 
> >and $30K speaker cables!
> 
> The most amazing thing about this, is that the magnetic field in
> a coil is proportional to the current through it, not the voltage
> across it, yet all loudspeakers and amplifiers are designed to
> control the voltage and not the current.
> 
> Once you fix that (and it's pretty trivial on any amplifier with
> a feedback loop) the cables suddenly doesn't matter and you get
> _much_ better definition in the reproduction.

Certainly. This is so true. You need to consider one thing thought, you want an
over voltage/current protection to nicely handle unplugging of connectors etc.

> I dit that to my set 20 years ago, and hasn't bothered since :-)

It is *still* too new methology, even if it has been known for ages.
Conservative fools.

Cheers,
Magnus - who used to work with PAs.