[time-nuts] Nuts and Phoolery

[J. Forster]

Clearly, not Audiophool grade.

It's FAR too cheap. It should cost at least $5000 more.

-John

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> 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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>>>>
>>>>
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