I have found that coating the outside of the optical cable with green, not black, magic marker (Sharpies, specifically) can drastically cut down on the amount of signal loss in a long cable. Black won't work because it's too absorptive. Green has just the right amount of absorption and reflectance characteristics, perfectly balanced to the wavelengths of light involved, and the n of the cable itself.

I'm dying here!

Using logic: me bad! No spanking for me.

I wonder if the green marker trick will work for the edge of a CD. Compact Disc, not Certificate of Deposit.

Paul

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the 1derful1

Is anyone being serious or is all this a joke...I really can't tell at this point. Soundhound, you do sound serious regarding the glass thing for Toslink, are you?

I'm dead serious

It's a good thing I wore my galoshes to work today. My tall galoshes.



-Joe

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Remember the Intellivision?
http://www.gotmaille.com/nostalgia/

this is really too funny...

SH: You should think about doing reviews after that first post.

[This message has been edited by Jason J (edited August 07, 2003).]

Ooooohhhhmmyyyygggaaawwwddddd.....I'm turning audiophile!

I think it gets really scary when you can do something like the following:

Upon insertion of the Micromagic vibrapods underneath my Esoteric A-247 CD player, it was like a wash of surf over my system. The high frequencies were much more focussed and clear in detail and presentation. The midrange showed the most benefit, becoming almost transluscent to the hardware in terms of the reproduction of the elements of the original recording. The low frequencies, while not exhbiting the improvement that I realized with the rest of the audio spectrum, certainly contained a better amount of pace and rhythm, almost revealing spacial discreteness in terms of the ultra low frequencies split between the left and right channels.

And not believe a word of it...

I believe you, Kevin.