How Electricity Actually Works

     "Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872)

     "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon," (Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873)

     "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required." (Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University)

     "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible!" (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)

     "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." (Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923)

     "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." (Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television)

     "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." (Admiral William Leahy, re: US Atomic Bomb Project)

"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher 1788-1860

Regards,

barts

Then there's hope,  since they way cables in audio works is self evident to most people.

     Apparently: THAT cables in audio work, is evident to quite a number of people.

     Numerous cable companies have been in operation for decades and doing quite well on the premise, including Used Cable/The Cable Company.

     Some bank on the hope, to the degree: they offer your $$ back, if you disagree.

     That’s not a new thing, either.   ie: On page 310, of the April 1993 Stereophile, Synergistic Research offered to send four different interconnect and two different speaker cable designs (their entire line, at the time*), to audition in the home, for 15 days, risk-free.

     *Ted obviously understands: everything doesn’t always work with everything else.

                                 What some call, "variables".

                  There was even an 800 number(free is good)!

     Of course: the term, "works"  is totally subjective and what works for me, won't necessarily work for you.

                                       I'm OK with that!  

I think the simple answer to "Does this have implications for audio cabling" is no. I didn’t see anything in the presentation that would make a whit of difference anymore than it would to television, refrigeration, lighting, power recliners, coffee machines or any other electric devices in your house.

For those that continue to believe electrons, electric charge, carry the energy from the power plant to our homes would be living in the dark if true.... The energy generated at the power plant would never leave the plant. It is impossible for electrons/electric charge to jump across the the gap from the primary winding to the secondary winding of the step up transformers at the power plant. But yet the electrical energy that is generated at the power plant is the same electrical energy that enters our homes. The electric charge never gets past the primary winding of the step up transformers at the plant. The electric charge pretty much just vibrates in place and moves as slow as cold maple syrup in the closed circuit loop.

It is impossible for those stunk in the belief that an audio signal flows back and forth in a conductor from a source to an amplifier or to a speaker to understand how an interconnect or speaker cable could possibly sound different from one another. But yet for many of us they do...