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see link to Aqueous Cables below
There's a company that showed "Liquid Cables" last year at CES, that were filled with some sort of slurry, but not water.
I don't visit this forum enough and just noticed this thread. I have been involved with these cables for a good while and know Taras Kowalczyszyn (Teo Audio partner; Ken Hotte is the other partner) reasonably well as a dealer.
The others posting to this segment of the thread are correct. The cables use an alloy of Gallium, Indium, and Tin similar to Galinstan (a registered name or trademark) which in the liquid state at room temperature and is a very safe substitute for liquid mercury.
Teo Audio and Sound Lab joined forces again this year to sponsor a room at THE Show. I composed the system and helped a lot with setup and worked in the room much of the time. We're looking forward to the show reports from the magazines.
Brian Walsh
So, would you say they're a slurry with the birefringence on top?
Tootles
Hi,
The liquid cables use a highly conductive liquid (almost like the now banned mercury), so no crystals are formed. They are supposed to be a revelation, have to yet hear them, but the principle makes sense to me.
Ciao T
Sometimes I'd like to be the water
sometimes shallow, sometimes wild.
Born high in the mountains,
even the seas would be mine.
(Translated from the song "Aus der ferne" by City)
For the cables you are talking about, is the slurry the conductor or is it a shield or damping material around the cable as is used by Purist and others? Star Sound uses a conductive micro bearing material around conductors in one of its cable lines.
"The three men of Teo Audio -- Ken Hotte, Taras Kowalczyszyn and Brian Kurtz -- believe theirs is the first commercial audio cable in the world where electromagnetic propagation steers its own pathway through a fluid conductor which responds to the applied current in real time. That fluid is a room-temperature molecular slurry of Gallium, Indium and Tin, a mix* that is related to the alloy inside child-proof thermometers where it replaces toxic Mercury."
Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
I do not recall any water filled cables.In the early 80's, Hitachi made an experimental cable consisting of a mercury filled plastic tube.I do believe the cable company you are thinking of is Purist Audio, still in business in the Texas-Houston area, IIRC.
Their cables use a fluid surrounding the actual conductors, but it is obvious not water, which would cause corrosion on the bare conductors, not to mention develop algae and other unpleasantries over time. I believe they use a silicone based fluid which is much more stable. In addition, careful examination of the cable (i.e. through the sleeving) reveals that they mix in particulates. Some are nondescript dark in appearance; some are shiny and copper colored. I believe they use a mixture of copper based and ferrite material, but of course the composition is kept secret.
The cables are on the warm side of tonality, but quite decent. The main quibble I had was that every time you moved the cable, the particulates would move and thus the sound would change, sometimes taking weeks to settle down again. Purist Audio did come out with a "break in CD" which cures much of this annoying characteristic, and it also works well with any system or cable.
Stu
Edits: 01/07/11
Actually, Audio Advisor was selling some company's water filled speaker cables at some point in the 90s. They appeared only briefly. I wish I had saved the company's name.
Purist Audio Cables.
Stu
NT = No Text you PEBKAC
Sometimes I'd like to be the water
sometimes shallow, sometimes wild.
Born high in the mountains,
even the seas would be mine.
(Translated from the song "Aus der ferne" by City)
Sometimes I'd like to be the water
sometimes shallow, sometimes wild.
Born high in the mountains,
even the seas would be mine.
(Translated from the song "Aus der ferne" by City)
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NT
Sometimes I'd like to be the water
sometimes shallow, sometimes wild.
Born high in the mountains,
even the seas would be mine.
(Translated from the song "Aus der ferne" by City)
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NT
Sometimes I'd like to be the water
sometimes shallow, sometimes wild.
Born high in the mountains,
even the seas would be mine.
(Translated from the song "Aus der ferne" by City)
I had to Google that one "problem between keyboard and chair" ???
Will
I don't know what that other guy's problem is. Cheap, uncalled for shots are really unnessasary.
He had a couple too many beers this morning. :0) Will
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