He wasn't a reviewer for Stereophile when he cut that cable apart....
many people have cut cables apart, btw...
re the idea of matched impedance ...device to device as done by the cable, this can be handled differently:
In a fluid metal as a conductive pathway... the connectivity is like an arc strike and is a dynamic flow matching system.
In a wire, this cannot happen. But with a room temperature fluid alloy (fluid at the molecular level, like water) --- it does.
It is not a perfect system, but it is notably better than 'wire'. This is just the straight up physics of it.
many people have cut cables apart, btw...
re the idea of matched impedance ...device to device as done by the cable, this can be handled differently:
In a fluid metal as a conductive pathway... the connectivity is like an arc strike and is a dynamic flow matching system.
In a wire, this cannot happen. But with a room temperature fluid alloy (fluid at the molecular level, like water) --- it does.
It is not a perfect system, but it is notably better than 'wire'. This is just the straight up physics of it.