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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.
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glupson
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taras22,

I will take "eye-catching" as description of sound as licentia poetica.

The only way those findings may be considered non-hyperbolic by more than a few.
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Peter Belt? Did someone mention Peter Belt? What have you got against Peter Belt? What have you heard about Peter Belt? Does he freak you out? Be that as it may I don’t see the connection....
taras22
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@glupson


taras22,

I will take "eye-catching" as description of sound as licentia poetica.

The only way those findings may be considered non-hyperbolic by more than a few


Hate to nitpick but I definitely wrote "ear-catching", that being said you can take it any way you feel you need to try to score a point. But here is another point in the bigger picture, I am not the only person to have that experience, in fact if you have the nerve ( and frankly I really don’t think you do) to wander over to the Schroeder Method thread you will find almost all those folks who have tried this idea are describing it as some form of spectacular.

So just wander over there and maybe double down and tell all those happy users that they are all either wrong, disingenuous, deaf, sheeple, or whatever. I’m sure given your vast experience with such matters you will quickly win them over and save them from some awful audio misfortune. And be sure to tell them you have personally not experienced the sonic effects of this idea but as glupson the great you just have this gut feeling that this all is just more of that old-fashioned cable poppy-hooey. Believe you me at the end of the day they will love you for it.


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