[time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery

[Eric Garner]

looks like he has anticipated this market:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Ultra-low-jitter-16-9344Mhz-Rubidium-Frequency-Clock-/300299812514?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45eb437ea2

-Eric

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kirkby at onetel.net> wrote:
> On 07/ 4/10 08:48 AM, Steve Rooke wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we are into the wrong sort of projects here, instead of knocking
>> together $10 "testers" we should get some cheap Rb units off fluke.l
>> and start turning out $15,000 audio equipment. Can you imagine how
>> much you could get for your ageing tube Cs unit in this phools market!
>> :)
>>
>> Steve
>
> Do the cheap fluke units allow locking to a 1 pps signal? If so, you could
> sell a GPS locked version for even more!
>
> The point made in
>
> http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/pdf/audiophools.pdf
>
> is that the people that do this sort of thing must have pretty deep pockets,
> which you don't associate with stupid people. (There are exceptions of
> course). There was a guy I was at school with. His parents were richer than
> most of us in the working class area of Walthamstow, East London.
>
> He did advanced level (A-level) in physics, chemistry and maths, just like
> me. He used speaker cables that had arrows on them pointing in the direction
> the music was supposed to flow. I asked him why. He could not offer any
> explanation of any logic for this, but still bought them, as he could afford
> to.
>
> Dave
>
>>
>> On 4 July 2010 19:33, Rob Kimberley<rk at timing-consultants.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe we've all been missing something in our timing projects.
>>> Must get some of that high purity 6N copper wire.......
>>> :-)
>>> Rob K
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>>> Behalf Of J. Forster
>>> Sent: 03 July 2010 10:51 PM
>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>> Subject: [time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery
>>>
>>>
>>> master_clocks/g-0rb/<http://esoteric.teac.com/master_clocks/g-0rb/>
>>>
>>> About $15,000.
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
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Eric Garner