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Your statement had me go back and reread the awesome plasmasonic thread.

I especially like the part about how Nelson Pass' plasma speaker prototypes sent him to the ER for nitrogen inhalation. Awesome!

ROFLMAO!!

Have you seen the youtube video of the plasma speakers being developed? They've gone from breadboard to PCB already.

I was at the CES show when Nelson showed the ION CLOUD loudspeaker and I have a picture of him (in a suit) standing next to them. It was driven by 2 huge Threshold amps through Dayton-Wright step-up transformers that were the same ones used in their XG8 electrostatic loudspeakers. High End audio was fun back then.

If I can find the picture I will post.

sorry, accidentally posted

You could use a high bias extension cord and fit a 6-pin female socket to it. You would want to solder the 2 bias pins of the socket to the one bias cord of the cable, or just link the 2 bias pins of the socket to each other.

Looks like I'm going to sell him one of my extension cables.

WPI sockets are back in stock at allied, and some guy on ebay is selling 5-conductor 600v cable, but, he's selling the whole reel of it for $300, so, not really economical for a one-off.

Edit: I still wonder if a knitting machine could be pressed into service to manufacture cloth-jacketed high-voltage ribbon cable out of individual wires and a bunch of thread or yarn. Come to think of it, I know two people who own looms. Hmmmmm.

Didn't you watch that Angelina Jolie movie over the summer, Eric?

All bad things start with knitting.

Can't say as i did.

Anyway, i had a chat with a friendly fiber freak, and he indicated that it should be very easy. He immediately started thinking up ways i could do it without his loom.

Allow me to introduce you to the brilliance that is "Wanted"


You see that thing in the background?

That thing is trouble.

It's really odd how stuff comes up on Ebay in bunches, then disappears.
Earlier in the year, there was a lot of the old round cable extentions
for sale. I got mine for about $22 if I remember. I thought about getting
the new style, but it won't work for normal bias, and for the extra $100+
is it really worth it? I also saw a lot of them bundled with the electrets.
I got mine from the same guy selling a sr44 setup. That's why the price
is a bit fuzzy. I paid for the whole thing and combined shipping.
I really need to find a good home for the sr44. Maybe it's time for son #2
to move up from Grado to Stax!

Right around the time head-fi was down last year, suddenly about 16 pair of yamaha orthos turned up on ebay.

I picked up two pair of YH-1's for less than $60. Single pairs have gone for $100+ since then.

Anybody got pictures of the SRD-7 MkII board?

I'm curious about the layout. 'cause i just ordered parts (well, TVS devices) to build a new board to stick in an SRD-7 MkI.

I figure I'll pull the PTH pieces off the original SRD-7 board and stick them on the DIY MkII board rather than go without them or try to find new ones that match the MkII schematic. I'm sure spritzer will probably suggest that i just leave them out - I suppose i might, but they do have some small amount of ohmic resistance that might make the SRD friendlier to amps, if higher impedance.

The pistole looks like a bit of trouble all by itself (not to mention its bearer).

Waiting for Ike ...

-Tim

The new cable _is_ better than the old one though.