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direstraitsfan98

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Yeah, Teo has posted tons on audiogon. Seems as nutty as Geoff Kait, but seems to be serious.
Actually I believe Geoff Kait is the one who posts on audiogon, and Ken Hotte posts on canuckaudiomart. Their posts seem a little different in style. But Ken Hotte is by far the bigger clown.

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"Here's an attempt to explain what is going on:

The technology of a true fluid conductive pathway, with low impedance, has some critical aspects which overcome some of the critical the limitations of solid wire, when it comes to AC signals of high bandwidth, with regard to DC to well over the skin effect 'hump' range.

Simply because the best contact between two points is an arc of electricity, where the electron cloud is both the channel and the intelligence/signal itself. Problem is, vacuum or air has too high of an impedance for audio use, and this creates it's own issues. But, within that given arc of electricity, the dynamics of AC signal conduction are perfected at the junction between each given 'electron'. Dynamically, on the fly, at Planck length levels.

A high conductivity molecular fluid, likened to that of a low impedance metal alloy, which is what we have here.... is the only way to get close to that perfected ideal in a usable real-world situation. And in that pathway, the impedance will shift dynamically with the signal, on the fly, from molecule to molecule, at Planck length levels and speeds.

If you take a Teo audio cable to a friend who may work at a high technology company or a university and that person is inquisitive and open minded..and is very familiar with the fundamentals of electricity, in the quantum sense, they might be able to make sense of it. If they are given the right clues, and have the right tools at hand. As they are going to witness seemingly bizarre anomalies.

The impedance measurements and capacitive measurements (using traditional laboratory gear).. of a Teo audio cable will be all over the place, and shift constantly, until one gets to very high frequencies of approx +10khz.

This is due to the mass of the fluid specifically with respect to conductivity pathways, or electron orbital alignments, as the mass of the test signal itself.....shapes the pathways in conjunction with said molecular fluid mass. Which, under high delta conditions, such as peaks and high loading, this will be shaped more akin to that of a pure plasma. The signal mass begins to take over under high delta or high frequencies/transients. Or that of heavy current loading.

The liquid metal alloy is shifting, in all parameters, under loading. and that definitely includes complex impedance, and/or conductivity, mass and volume. We know that a similar alloy/fluid is used as as a replacement in thermometers (the safe replacement for mercury) and this is due to a volume change under thermal conditions. Thermal, of course, means a form of energetic addition and subtraction, when analyzed as a dynamic. thermal is also, in this analysis concerning audio - akin to electrical addition and subtraction. Electrical differential and delta.

Basically, as an electrically conductive pathway that is dealing with very complex AC dynamics, the Teo Audio cable can shift with the dynamic loading. Which is unlike any solid metal, regarding any degree that is useful for audio signals.

In essence, modern measurement gear, on it's own, cannot make sense of what is going on in the measurements and the anomalies seen in the measurements, as these traditional measurement systems and tests were designed solely to work with frozen lattice structure conductive elements. Ie, wire and metal.

This can be verified with a simple $100 LCR meter that has variable impedance and variable capacitance measurement ability. something like 100hz, 120hz, 1khz,and 10khz impedance, resistance and capacitance measurements.

All solid metal wires measured...will be utterly stable.

The Teo audio cable presents a conductivity system which the instrument was not designed to deal with and the numbers obtained will be all over the map, and even within each measurement in each fraction of a second. (each iteration)

Stability in the measurements means, due to that frozen lattice structure of the wire/metal... that any wire/cable is, as we all really and truly know in the electrical field, that the cable is only good or perfected, at one single frequency, and that of a direct current. Just those two. DC, and one single frequency.

All other frequencies will cause reflection and distortion, as the solids can only work with the signal in their locked lattice electron orbital conductivity pathways. In a way, for solid wire, it is analogous to how light works with lenses. It's the same as light with respect to the fields shaping as compared to photons. We can't see electricity or the electron cloud as it integrates with the wire....so it can be difficult to understand.

In a solid metal cable, each time the frequency changes from that single perfected frequency, the impedance and/or physical construction (they are effectively the same) would be required to shift dynamically with the signal, in order to handle it with low distortion. It would have to shift everywhere in the cable, at light speed, at the specific molecule to molecule condition of individual units of electron orbital connectivity in the elemental or alloy lattice.

This cannot be done. this is why all solid metal cables seem to have a level of loading where they seem to go 'harsh' sounding, as the distortions of the cable rise to a level that is significant to the human hearing mechanism. This loading issue is well known to knowledgeable and sensitive audiophiles. This is only part of the story of loading issues, though. What I'm saying here is only simple and partial analysis, but the basics are here and they are well known.

The only cable out there that achieves any form of a close match to this required dynamic function at the electron orbital co-joining level, is the fluid metal alloy cables of Teo audio.

When people try the Teo cables as compared to any audio cable that uses metal lattice/solids, many hear this difference, immediately.

This is what I mean, when I say that Teo audio cables are a full corrected magnitude beyond all lattice structure frozen element/alloy wire audio cables, with regard to how they work with the given audio signal. When looked at with the correct data and analysis...the physics and the analysis are functional and real, by all known and utilized science. "


What a load of BS.

Link to the thread if you're interested in reading his madness. https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43106
 

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It does have a similar destructive effect on aluminium. Those cables are probably illegal to bring on an airplane. Does the TSA know?

Ken mentioned this in the past, he was banned for a while from air shipping this product IIRC. No idea of the status now. BTW the price from China is around $300/lb and they list Fed X as a shipping option.
 

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???? In other words buy more.

Since a power cord is composed of a hot and neutral wire that the component sits between, a change in the length of the cord will increase the size of the "buffer" around the component. In general, I would not recommend a power cord that is shorter than 3 feet or 1 meter in length.
 

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What the hell have they stuffed inside those poor fuses? We've all heard of beeswax-filled fuses, but that looks like something else. Anyway, here are some more ideas for fuse fillings:
The filling in a fuse should be non flammable. In it is a thin wire (sometimes even silver in High Voltage fuses) which melts on overload.
The filling should keep it from exploding or burning up like a light bulb.
Beeswax doesn't fulfill these requirements.
 

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The filling in a fuse should be non flammable. In it is a thin wire (sometimes even silver in High Voltage fuses) which melts on overload.
The filling should keep it from exploding or burning up like a light bulb.
Beeswax doesn't fulfill these requirements.

Fill it with Nitroglycerin. That would fullfill two points.
1)You can realy talk about a blown fuse
2)Enhanced Bass response. Ok, only 1 time.
But hey!
; )
 

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One has got to love the tactile feel of some explosing nitro in the morning.... just not too much of it but 'too' is never a good thing anyway.
 

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Actually I believe Geoff Kait is the one who posts on audiogon, and Ken Hotte posts on canuckaudiomart. Their posts seem a little different in style. But Ken Hotte is by far the bigger clown.

"Teo" post on both Canuckaudiomart and also a lot on audiogon.

I've taken on some of his crazy "philosophy-oriented" attempts to justify his approach, keep scientific skepticism at bay, and his disdain for skeptics. Unfortunately he actually manages to impress/confuse some people with his philosophical musings on audio, but they are paper thin and just baroque versions of the same-old subjectivist tropes.
 
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