Thank you for not being sure. Key point, there.
The Science of Cables
It seems to me that there is too little scientific, objective evidence for why cables sound the way they do. When I see discussions on cables, physical attributes are discussed; things like shielding, gauge, material, geometry, etc. and rarely are things like resistance, impedance, inductance, capacitance, etc. Why is this? Why aren’t cables discussed in terms of physical measurements very often?
Seems to me like that would increase the customer base. I know several “objectivist” that won’t accept any of your claims unless you have measurements and blind tests. If there were measurements that correlated to what you hear, I think more people would be interested in cables.
I know cables are often system dependent but there are still many generalizations that can be made.
Seems to me like that would increase the customer base. I know several “objectivist” that won’t accept any of your claims unless you have measurements and blind tests. If there were measurements that correlated to what you hear, I think more people would be interested in cables.
I know cables are often system dependent but there are still many generalizations that can be made.
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@defiantboomerang So you piled thru Jackson, congratulations....and solved all the problems, double congratulations. Tough sledding that. Could you please do us all a big favour and take a peak at the following thread.... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/doug-schroeder-method-double-ic ....and give us your ideas about what all the hub-bub is about. Thanks in advance. |
While I largely agree with the direction of Dunlavy's post, I will give slight shelter to two claims: For example, claiming that copper wire is directional, that slow-moving electrons create distortion as they haphazardly carry the signal along a wire, that cables store and release energy as signals propagate along them, that a final energy component (improperly labeled as Joules) is the measure of the tonality of cables, ad nauseum, are but a few of the non-entities used in advertisements to describe cable performance.Any properly shielded wire can be directional. A Faraday shield should typically be grounded ONLY at the source. And dialectic do absorb and release charge non-linearly. It is called dialectic absorption (closely related to dissipation factor) and can be read in any good data sheet. The larger the physical form factor the less this is a meaningful concern, since the capacitance goes way down. Not really defending the position of many cable claims, but there is a hint of truth in there if you look closely.... G |
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I know you didn't ask me, but i took a quick look at: Could you please do us all a big favour and take a peak at the following thread....I cant even figure out what the OP is saying. he doesn't provide schematics (step 1 IMO), nor define which "IC", nor define the characteristics of those ICs.. or does he mean "interconnect", at which point its just less resistance and more capacitance and I'll stay out of relative subjective judgement-land. But if we don't know the characteristics of the source, media and termination we don;t know much. Sounds like a very expensive tone control to me. G |
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