When Mercury Records recorded at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis, to do so they parked their recording truck behind the building and ran about 200 feet of cable from the mics to the recorders mounted in the truck.
You can read about their truck if you have some Mercury recordings with the original inner sleeves. The reason they were able to do this without loss of fidelity had to do with the balanced line system as I have described.
Certainly the tubes helped the situation, but one can produce excellent recordings using solid state using the same techniques- and in the same way the cables will contribute no artifact.
Cable artifact is a phenomena of home audio systems, because instead of using known, established engineering technique to solve the problem, most audiophiles simply throw money at the problem by buying more expensive interconnects and listening to the differences between them to try to find one that works. But what if you had a system wherein the cable really didn't make a difference and instead just always sounded like the best cable made (or even no cable at all)? Would that be interesting? That system has been around for over 60 years...
You can read about their truck if you have some Mercury recordings with the original inner sleeves. The reason they were able to do this without loss of fidelity had to do with the balanced line system as I have described.
Certainly the tubes helped the situation, but one can produce excellent recordings using solid state using the same techniques- and in the same way the cables will contribute no artifact.
Cable artifact is a phenomena of home audio systems, because instead of using known, established engineering technique to solve the problem, most audiophiles simply throw money at the problem by buying more expensive interconnects and listening to the differences between them to try to find one that works. But what if you had a system wherein the cable really didn't make a difference and instead just always sounded like the best cable made (or even no cable at all)? Would that be interesting? That system has been around for over 60 years...