When is unequal, equal?

Nsgarch, you are correct in saying that different frequency voltages changes travel at different speeds in different cable compositions, BUT, the differences are only apparent (even theoretically) at RF levels, i.e. a signal at 10 megahz might be delayed vis a vis a 1khz by some very small amount, but would be inaudible anyway.
Frequency variations and Phase problems due to capacitance and inductance are however more detectable at listening frequecies, but then, again, the difference in lengths of the same cable would have to be large indeed.
'Smearing' if there is such a thing, is not caused by the construction of the cable or materials used, but by the inherent electrical properties of the cable, IMO.

Bob P.

Bob, I think you should have this conversation with someone like Bruce Brisson (Monster, MIT cable designer -- invented the "shotgun" SE cable) I don't think he'd agree with you. I've run out of science . . . . .

Bob, I think you should have this conversation with someone like Bruce Brisson (Monster, MIT cable designer -- invented the "shotgun" SE cable) I don't think he'd agree with you.

Well, of course he wouldn't. It would be very bad for business. But that's how these cable charlatans operate. They take a basic concept, like the speed of extremely high frequency signals, and improperly claim that it applies to audio frequencies as well. That's what turns it into pseudoscience. It only works because credulous consumers are willing to believe it.

Nsgarch, oh I think that he would agree with me, but my way of stating these things doesn't help sell cables, while his version of these same effects (or non-effects) and claim that these are audible and his solution to this 'problem' does sell cables. We are in fact saying the same thing, just disputing if the effects are audible in practice or not. Sufficiently different impedances can be heard, however.
Salut, Bob P.

Whether either of you guys want to admit it or not, what sells anything ultimately is results, not white papers, not hype. (You remember the one about fooling all of the people some of the time etc?)

What put Monster Cable on the map way back before you'd remember, was the shotgun design with its multigauge, multilength, separately insulated stranded conductors, with dual symmetrical signal path and floating shield. (A blueprint for a new, quieter more coherent SE cable, not hype.) Before that there was only single conductor coax for SE cables -- and if I had my way, that's all you guys would be allowed to use! Shouldn't bother you though, cause everything else is just a lot of pseudoscience, right?