aalenik
It's nothing personal and not a trolling attempt. You just posted something that has no basis in fact and it needed to be corrected. Throughout the history of Hi Fi, interconnect cables have been notorious for picking up stray signals (especially longer than average runs) - not signal loss. The best interconnect cables from both a measured performance point of view and audible performance point of view (vulnerability to hum an static) are balanced cables. If they aren't balanced, the next best interconnect cable type possess a braided shield to shunt stray electric and magnetic fields. This is one area in audio where measurement results have actually correlated well with audible results. The issue has been so well settled to the extent that the "audiophile" market has adopted what was traditionally a pro sound design technique - balanced inputs whereby common mode noise is essentially completely cancelled in a differential amplifier input stage. When it comes to "losses" sustained through interconnects, very little is contributed to the cable unless source impedance and interconnect capacitance are high enough to result in high frequency roll off. This generally only is a concern with tube pre amps that have output impedance in the range of 500 ohms.
This site is frequently consulted for advice by those looking for answers. While it's nice when people offer their advice whether it's based solely on their personal long time experience, measurements they may have taken, or both - it's important that the advice given be factual. We all want accurate, useful, actionable information for questions we have. Factually, your advice regarding interconnects does not square with my experience or that of anyone I've known in audio circles for many years - audiophile or pro sound. Before someone plunks down hundreds (maybe even thousands - yikes!!) for interconnects, it's important for them to have facts that are born out not only in anecdotal experience, but with measurements that back up that first hand experience when they are available. You can go for many years doing the same thing and never encounter hum from a power cord straying into an interconnect just based on the random layout of your particular equipment setup - nothing you intentionally did. Does that mean stray EMF isn't a problem for interconnects? I think you know the answer.
It's nothing personal and not a trolling attempt. You just posted something that has no basis in fact and it needed to be corrected. Throughout the history of Hi Fi, interconnect cables have been notorious for picking up stray signals (especially longer than average runs) - not signal loss. The best interconnect cables from both a measured performance point of view and audible performance point of view (vulnerability to hum an static) are balanced cables. If they aren't balanced, the next best interconnect cable type possess a braided shield to shunt stray electric and magnetic fields. This is one area in audio where measurement results have actually correlated well with audible results. The issue has been so well settled to the extent that the "audiophile" market has adopted what was traditionally a pro sound design technique - balanced inputs whereby common mode noise is essentially completely cancelled in a differential amplifier input stage. When it comes to "losses" sustained through interconnects, very little is contributed to the cable unless source impedance and interconnect capacitance are high enough to result in high frequency roll off. This generally only is a concern with tube pre amps that have output impedance in the range of 500 ohms.
This site is frequently consulted for advice by those looking for answers. While it's nice when people offer their advice whether it's based solely on their personal long time experience, measurements they may have taken, or both - it's important that the advice given be factual. We all want accurate, useful, actionable information for questions we have. Factually, your advice regarding interconnects does not square with my experience or that of anyone I've known in audio circles for many years - audiophile or pro sound. Before someone plunks down hundreds (maybe even thousands - yikes!!) for interconnects, it's important for them to have facts that are born out not only in anecdotal experience, but with measurements that back up that first hand experience when they are available. You can go for many years doing the same thing and never encounter hum from a power cord straying into an interconnect just based on the random layout of your particular equipment setup - nothing you intentionally did. Does that mean stray EMF isn't a problem for interconnects? I think you know the answer.