Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?

@b4icu
Which part of the white papers do you disagree on? Did even read the white papers?

Your saying “The cable’s character that matters is its resistance.” so only resistance matters, but this seasoned cable engineer says that “A standard approach to any problem in audio cabling begins with some fundamental measurable attributes of wire and cable: R (resistance), L (inductance) and C (capacitance).”. Where’s your proof that this engineer is wrong?

And no, Belden is not “just” a raw cable manufacturer, they’re the company that manufacturers the Iconoclast cables. If you don’t know this, seems obvious that you didn’t even bother to look at the white papers.

I’ve got no skin in the game but I’m open minded to look at the evidence.

I mentioned Belden because this engineer has access to many expensive measuring, manufacturing, and other equipment that the typical audio cable manufacturer cannot afford.

I looked at your arguments and the engineers and frankly given his specific expertise and experience in designing and manufacturing cables I’d say the professional’s word in the field has more weight.

I mentioned you specifically because I assumed in your previous post you were asking for additional info/proof. But it seems your promoting your thread/ideas which implies you’re not open minded but rather opinionated. My intention was to help you. Apologies if I missed the mark.

Mr. kennyc

A thick cable's resistance is so low, that the inductance and capacitance are negligible. So is the Ro of a high DF Amp.
Is that you confront me, or is an engineer at a white something website?

I was very opened minded. I'd found it. I know what makes a good cable better. I tried it myself. I made a few cables to my friends: they loved the results. And I came up on Audiogon, in 2018, did an experiment and the results were all on my favorit: stunning.

All industries says on cable:

Directional,
Cryo treated,
Bi wire,
Pure copper,
Silver over copper,
Skin effect,
Geometry,
Snake's oil

They were all checked (Open minded you claim) and found none relevant. All were deception to make people pay for something that do nothing. You may think that the Snake's oil is the worst.
No! its only the most obvious. The rest need a bit brain to dissolve.
None of your idea of "open minded" do not show any engineering or physical explanation, nor a compare to a conventional cable.
They are all stories. like the bible. I'm happy that on the cables you didn't gave the credit to God! 
Not to say, that according to my religion, God is off on Shabbat.
Well what about yourself sir, are you open minded to check mine?

Please don‘t hijack this thread and resurrect that tired old thread here. I think it has run its course. We already know you are the kenjit of speaker cables.

Audio cable companies are such a small subset of the wire electrical wire industry that it is highly unlikely that a manufacturer of cable will be able to justify the cost of producing a different weave of the stranding of the cable.
I had a Coda Fet 02b preamp which made a noise on one input when changing selections.  I contacted Coda and they told me it was an impedance mismatch with the cable.  I moved the cable to a different input and the noise moved to the other input selection.  I bought Innersound RCA cable for $50 for a meter pair and used them the noise disappeared.

  (Innersound manufactures electrostatic speakers)  Mr. Sanders from Innersound wrote a white paper about cables and he claimed that if a cable is manufactured correctly there will be no sonic difference between cables.
After that I stopped looking for the perfect cable and used Innersound.  They have since stopped making cables so I have gone with Blue Jeans cables from Seattle Washington.  They are high quality and don't break the bank.

@pesky_wabbit

+1, thank you! 👍 😉

Michélle