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In <3485f314$1$coynvf$mr2ice@news.visi.com>, on 12/03/97 
   at 06:00 PM, pblais@NOSPAM.visi.com said:

>In <3485bb57.0@news1.ibm.net>, on 12/03/97
>   at 02:54 PM, harry travis <htravis@ibm.net> said:

>> Such madness, the substituiton of expensive labor for cheap machine
>> fabrication has been a mainstay of the high-end audio industry for
>> years. I don't doubt that the silver in the cable and the teflon in the
>> dialectric insulation results in a "better sounding " cable. It does.
>> But $1000 for a 6 ft length of cable, half the price of a high quality
>> pre-amplifier with multiple active devices, top-flight design, and
>> similarly expensive parts?

>> If SCSI cards alway worked as advertised and specified, we wouldn't be
>> subject to such FUD and high prices.

>Typo?  Actually the cost is about $100, still for a 25 pin device it's
>not worth it.  If you can spare another irq I'd get the second card
>with a 25 pin connector already on it.  DB 68 connectors are pretty
>pricey.  Try to build one yourself and you'll see<g>.   This one also
>needs active termination on the unused pinds to boot so it's not a real
>easy cable to make. Lots of labor.

Paul--
No $1000 was not a typo. (Nor is $100+ for an audiophile  6 ft power cord a typo either. ) One thousand for the audio cable. And there are lots of them for prices like this. For this group, though, you make my point very well: Try to make one myself and [I'll] see. Indeed. If I had to cut the threads on 10 bolts and tap the threads on their nuts I'd switch to nails in hurry. 

My further point was that FUD keeps us from buying  cheap machine-made alternatives, some of which have been posted here in adverts. Crap? I don't know, but I do know that a lots of SCSI scanners-- with cable-- are being sold now  @$100. If they didn't come with cables, no sane person would shell out $50-$60 for one because it was hand made. I'm not saying these scanners are good for more than 5000 scans, but if they weren't good for 2000 , the vendors wouldn't be bothered with the service grief.

Best.

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