onemug
Super Member
Congrats on owning an 8.
Although the 8b seems to get most of the attention, I have both and would be hard pressed if I had to choose just one.
Today I have new (re-found?) appreciation for my 8 after cleaning years of silver tarnish off the rca ends of my interconnects. The wires are silver and they stay a bright shiny silver with their dialectic protecting them from attack. I did not think the rca's had any silver in them (who does that stuff?
). They did and they are back to shiny and full conductivity.
A note for anyone who may come here via a search engine: It's been said that copper oxide does not conduct but silver oxide does. Well, silver oxide may conduct, but it sure attenuates a lot of an audio signal...I KNOW!
Although the 8b seems to get most of the attention, I have both and would be hard pressed if I had to choose just one.
Today I have new (re-found?) appreciation for my 8 after cleaning years of silver tarnish off the rca ends of my interconnects. The wires are silver and they stay a bright shiny silver with their dialectic protecting them from attack. I did not think the rca's had any silver in them (who does that stuff?
). They did and they are back to shiny and full conductivity. A note for anyone who may come here via a search engine: It's been said that copper oxide does not conduct but silver oxide does. Well, silver oxide may conduct, but it sure attenuates a lot of an audio signal...I KNOW!
