The Science of Cables

Breaking Gnus! 🐂 🐂 🐂

Masterbuilt Cables originated in the U.S. aerospace program. Engineers developed wiring systems with low-reactance cable for use in the Apollo lunar missions and other mission-critical NASA projects, such as the International Space Station. Say, aren’t they the same cables Von Schweikert uses for his ULTRA internal speaker wire upgrade? 😳

https://www.vonschweikert.com/ultra-internal-wire-upgrade

douglas,

That's terrific!  Nice to see.

I'll take a look at the articles further when I have time.

Where you able to discern differences between AC cables using blind testing/ABX?   If so, that would be the first example I've ever seen before.

"Engineers developed wiring systems with low-reactance cable for use in the Apollo lunar missions and other mission-critical NASA projects, such as the International Space Station."

How much were they?

prof, yes, I was able to discern power cables as well. I will not pretend I have super hearing. The cables were not easy at all to discern at matched level. They seemed much closer in sound characteristics when ABX and matched level than when in normal use. But, the ABX was testing one leg of cabling, not the entire set. I was successful at identifying power cords with high percentage of accuracy, whereas amplifiers I could not. Frank Van Alstine and I had a wonderful conversation about that only after the review, so as to not introduce any bias. That's when I learned that at AVA the amps were the only parts of the system they could not ABX well, i.e. get significantly greater than 50% identification, either. Our results, though unknown to us at the time of the review, were parallel. 

That puts an exclamation point on the results, I'd say! 

Will that change many skeptics' minds? Probably not. Some people have incredible faith in their doubt.  :(

BTW, I did NOT invite NASA to my testing.  ;)