Re: OT: diamond making machine for 200,000 dollars on alibaba

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!