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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: diamond making machine for 200,000 dollars on alibaba
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:04:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:52:12 -0400, Ralph Mowery wrote:

> In article <vbsi92$3n5bv$2@dont-email.me>, cd999666@notformail.com
> says...
>> 
>> > Old record players used diamond needles, I have read vinyl is 'in'
>> > again these days Audiophiles will pay big money for superior sound.
>> 
>> They had no choice. That was back in the days when natural diamonds
>> were the only game in town, De Beers controlled the price of these gems
>> and only Superman could make them artificially (from lumps of coal
>> IIRC).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Audiophiles will pay big money for stupid things.  Best example I have
> seen is they will pay around $ 100 for about 6 feet of some special wire
> to go from the eqipment to the AC receptical.  Little good that does
> when there is 20 to 50 feet of cheap copper or even aluminum cable from
> there to the breaker box and other junk cable back to the power pole.

Very true. Likewise speaker cable. I managed to get *very* many yards of 
excellent low-loss 50 ohm millimetre wave coax cable at a very reasonable 
price from some audiophool who'd been using it as speaker cable. He must 
have had incredible hearing, that guy. ;->

> Not sure about the diamonds usen in the record players but industrial
> diamonds aver vey cheap.  It is just the stuff they can sell to women
> that they get a large amount of money for.  Had it not been for them to
> convience women they needed them they would still be very cheap cmpaired
> to what they are now.

Also very true!