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In the Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread)
Post Subject: Guy Hammel Would Laugh!Posted by Paul S on: 10/27/2018
Not that I have a lot of patience for audio, but I finally ran out my allotment for the effing shielded phono cables when the clock sounded 12 before I figured out a quiet grounding scheme. On the up side, I cleaned and re-greased all the contacts for the first time in years, and at least the system is hum and RFI free with the Placette cables in place. As far as I know, these cables are also shielded, but there are no "bleeder wires" for the shields, so I guess the shields are tied to the negative jack terminal. Who knows? Anyway, even though the Placette cables "don't sound as good" as my new Ag/Cu multi-metal cables, I will stick with them for now because I have them here, and they don't add 60Hz hum. Not sure how I'd go about tying my cables' high mass shields to the teeny, tiny Eichmann negative poles, if I want to try them that way! Something funny, I think, is that Guy never advertised the fact that he made or makes proprietary cables, and I've never seen other Placette cables, so this is likely something that he just "knocked out", like, no big deal. And a funny story came with these Placette cables: I bought them from a local fellow who turned out to have been involved in a class action law suit against Dave Fletcher/SOTA, saying the vacuum hold down feature ruined his priceless record collection by embedding dust into the vinyl! And (of course...) I've used a SOTA vacuum TT since 1984 with no problems whatsoever, so (of course...) the litigant was misguided at best, or a sue-happy jerk at worst. Poor David Fletcher!
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