The Science of Cables

mkgus,

You have walked in to a church and questioned God’s existence.

Good luck.

@taras22
To be sure, I have nothing against science and development - I’m all for it.
The fact is - nearly every facet of the music industry, from the performance, to the studio and into home, is going wireless.
Nearly all new forms of communication and dash control, is going wireless.
Even in the redundant safeguard, back up control systems (where wire and cables are used) in every industry, from the military, to the aviation industry, to the air-space industry - relies on wires and cables, for controls and communication, meeting long used and proven standards - none of which cost $1000.00 pr. foot.
Only in the audio industry, is anyone gullible enough to fall for the wild claims and ridiculous prices of wires and cables selling upward and over $1000.00 per foot.

For many years I worked for one worlds largest manufacture of everything from wires and cables, to industrial switch gear, to the worlds most sophisticated control systems, so I have a pretty good idea of what’s out there, how it works and what it should cost...Jim

Only in the audio industry, is anyone gullible enough to fall for the wild claims and ridiculous prices of wires and cables selling upward and over $1000.00 per foot.

It's not all audiophiles.  It's mainly the category of audiophiles who fully trust their subjective experience as the primary source of truth.  When you live in that paradigm, "anything is possible" which is why such an extraordinary range of phenomena come to be believed in that paradigm  (It's the same paradigm that ratifies every religion, cult, pseudo-science, etc - note how Flat Earthers constantly talk about "believing what your senses tell you about the world even if some stuffy scientist disagrees!"  Sound a bit familiar?).

@prof 

Sound a bit familiar?

Yeah in fact something about the thrust of that post does sound familiar, it sounds like a fundamentalist who is backstopping his dogmatic beliefs with a scientific version of truthiness. 

And speaking of the absolute awesomeness of science here is something about one of the greatest scientists of all time....

I was reading many articles about estimates of the age of the Earth throughout the ages. I was dumbfounded when I read that Newton, arguably one of the greatest scientists ever to have ‘calculated’ the age of the earth, estimated that the Earth was created in 4000 BCE. Johannes Kepler arrived at a similar result

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And then there was the comment from a physicist just before "Newtonian" physics got smashed by the quantum tsunami ( the following roughly paraphrased)...

....all we need is just a few more decimal places of precision and we'll have the whole thing figured out....

Yup, yup yup science is a real bedrock eh....actually it isn't, its just a tool to explore with, and fairly imprecise at that (  and some playing with the idea of chaos theory may help understand why that matters ) ....to believe otherwise displays a misunderstanding of science.

“I have nothing against science and development.” 

What a guy!