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post #46 of 58
7/22/11 at 12:31am

Power cords must be getting desperate if they threaten to smoke your equipment, electrocute you and set your house on fire just to make a difference. tongue.gif


Edited by b0ck3n - 7/22/11 at 7:05am
post #47 of 58
7/22/11 at 6:08am
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Power chords must be getting desperate if they threaten to smoke your equipment, electrocute you and set your house on fire just to make a difference. tongue.gif


That would be power cords.

 

However power chords have also been known to smoke equipment.

 

 

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post #48 of 58
7/22/11 at 7:09am

Thanks for reviving an old classic while mocking my unfortunate typo redface.gif I especially liked the "wooh, superstereo" part tongue.gif

post #49 of 58
7/22/11 at 7:19am
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Thanks for reviving an old classic while mocking my unfortunate typo redface.gif


It wasn't unfortunate at all. At least not for me. biggrin.gif

 

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I especially liked the "wooh, superstereo" part tongue.gif

 

Yeah. I guess that's the Italian translation of "Whoah. Rock 'n' roll."

 

Couldn't find the English version of that scene.

 

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post #50 of 58
7/22/11 at 1:42pm

Love the movies, but it's a completely unrealistic scene.  The speaker would never generate enough pressure to throw you across the room.  Long before that happened it would blow out your eardrums, your lungs, and if the dB was high enough set your hair on fire.

post #51 of 58
7/22/11 at 1:48pm
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Edited by Steve Eddy - 7/22/11 at 2:59pm
post #52 of 58
7/22/11 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by IPodPJ View Post

Love the movies, but it's a completely unrealistic scene.  The speaker would never generate enough pressure to throw you across the room.  Long before that happened it would blow out your eardrums, your lungs, and if the dB was high enough set your hair on fire.


If it's unrealistic, or pure fantasy even, then it's in good company here. Love your avatar btw.
post #53 of 58
7/22/11 at 4:06pm
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If it's unrealistic, or pure fantasy even, then it's in good company here. Love your avatar btw.

 

Thanks.

 

Yeah, it was a great trio of movies for sure.  How could anyone not like them?  You'd think by now we'd have a piece of audio gear with a flux capacitor.

 

post #54 of 58
7/22/11 at 4:16pm
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Thanks.

Yeah, it was a great trio of movies for sure.  How could anyone not like them?  You'd think by now we'd have a piece of audio gear with a flux capacitor.


We've had flux bridges for many years!  Who needs a flux capacitor when you've got a flux bridge?  Grado was so far ahead of his time.

 

post #55 of 58
7/22/11 at 8:17pm

I've got a flux pen!  (Unfortunately it's made by Kester, not The Doc)


Edited by IPodPJ - 7/22/11 at 8:19pm
post #56 of 58
7/23/11 at 1:55am
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I've got a flux pen!  (Unfortunately it's made by Kester, not The Doc)

Wrong kind of flux... ;)
 

 

post #57 of 58
7/23/11 at 2:21am

Shoudn't the warning be extended to all Schuko (European) power cords?

 

Schuko are used in Germany and some other countries. The wall plug can be inserted up or down and in one of the cases hot and neutral are inverted. There is usually not any marking how to plug the cable in the wall and about 50 % of the cables can be expected to be used inverted. I have never seen any warning about this, except that it sometimes can affect sound quality slightly for the worse.

 

post #58 of 58
7/23/11 at 3:12am

I did point this out, but the issue is power cords for the USA.  I have some good news though: Kingwa informed me he found a local supplier of power cords wired correctly for the USA which he will be shipping with his products to countries that follow the US standard.  As well, the wiring with the custom power cords was rectified over a year ago apparently, so the people, such as myself, who have incorrectly wired cables, purchased them over a year ago, if not considerably more.

 

So unless someone has an objection (PM me if you do), I'm closing this one up.

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