On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:28:07 -0400, John DeGood wrote:

Dave Platt wrote:
There was a running gag over in rec.audio.high-end a few years ago,
about the ultimate speaker cables: mercury-filled surgical rubber
tubing.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this subject line. For
those who missed it in 1987:

http://tinyurl.com/ywjd8

My favorite response in that 17-year-old thread:

I can see the review by Anthony Cordesman now:

"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality
of horns has to be heard to be believed. There is a silvery
quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery
sound normally associated with speaker cable...

A fine example of what Herb Caen, in the SF Chronicle, used to
refer to as "the prismatic luminescence school of wine critics".