Re: Charcoal Toroid?

From: Mike Fields (spam_me_not_mr.gadget2_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:50:06 -0800

"martin griffith" <martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:43:20 -0800, in sci.electronics.design Tim
> Wescott <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:
>
> >martin griffith wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:37:47 -0500, in sci.electronics.design Mark
> >> Jones <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hmm.... does charcoal even have a coercivity?
> >>>
> >>>http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?&item=TOR-23
> >>
> >> Its probably very good for audiophoole products.
> >> As we all know, charcoal is a great absorber, and will suck out all
> >> your MP3 artifacts when put on the speaker cable, leaving a pure
> >> sound, but you turn them around every 3 months to discharge them
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes, but that only works for activated charcoal -- and turning it around
> >to discharge it is really a myth, because the impurities leave the
> >charcoal at an exponential rate, so no matter how long you leave it
> >reversed it'll still have stuff in it. And the music will sound bad
> >when you've reversed it because it's discharging all that crap.
> >Furthermore you'll be loading up the other side with crap while you do
> >it! Even pristine gold-plated vinyl analog disks, when played through
> >vacuum tube electronics running off of primary cells will have some
> >unavoidable audio artifacts that will get captured during the cleaning
> >process. This means that when you reverse it you'll be hearing all the
> >crap you put in when you were "cleaning" it.
> >
> >So it's best to just replace your charcoal toroids every three months
> >and _throw them out_! This will keep your sound pure.
>
> I must admit that I haven't used them for some months, I use an
> activated charcoal system, I modified the condensor technology on
> (IIRC) www.flowtc.com to provide a cleaner sound by using them as
> megaHenry common mode inductors in gyratory circuits
>
> The great advantage of this is that the stored "distortion" can be
> recovered and used for used for heating. And the nastier the mp3ing
> the more heat/energy you recover. It is particularly effective with
> modern radio transmissions that have been Fubar-ed by Orban type
> digital processors.
>
>
>
> martin
>
> Serious error.
> All shortcuts have disappeared.
> Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

This only is valid if you use the latest "Monster Cable" (although I
do remember a discussion several years ago about the possibility of
using a plastic tube filled with mercury to eliminate noise ... )
And April is still almost 4 months away too !! ;-)

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