*WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters

This will not work well for a cable and can have huge errors. An LCR meter cannot isolate the L and C when taking a measurement on a cable and hence the measurements for L and C end up wrong.  With a good LCR meter (the DM4070 is not), you can adjust the measurement frequency and use the change over frequency to extract the accurate L and C values.  Of course if you start with a good LCR meter, it will have an impedance measurement function, which will allow you to measure the impedance with the cable shorted and the cable open-circui which can then be used to accurately compute the characteristic impedance.

APPENDIX B: Three Methods of Deriving Characteristic Impedance
METHOD 1–Use a VICI DM4070 LCR Meter or Similar
1.Measure the capacitance (C)of the cable with the cable open circuited.
2.Measure the inductance (L) of the cablewith the endshort circuited.
3.With capacitance in microfarads and inductance in microhenries calculate the impedance by this formula Zo= √L/C ohms.

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-So the white paper will work with kindling ?
-What are the survival odds..you at a snake oil convention ?

No comment @1971gto455HO.  I am sure the author meant well and believes what they wrote is accurate. It is not. It is seriously flawed. It would be best to just withdraw it, no burning needed.

This thread is yet another wonderful illustration of why its such a waste of time for audiophiles to talk tech. Its all well and good for engineers and designers. But with audiophiles all that happens is the same BS just different words.  

When we get good sound we love it so much we just can't help but want to know all about it. Only thing, the more we learn the more it remains a mystery. Some guy comes along with a nice story. Might as well admit, its a nice story. Probably even some of it is true. Whatever true means. As if we know even that much.  

Just you who knock it, don't pretend you're any better. When it comes to understanding what's really going on we're all pretty much shivering around the campfire in the darkness hoping the tiger's not too hungry tonight.

All I really want to know, how's it sound?

Why do some people make it out to be so hard to get good sound? It’s really not. The core knowledge base needed is really not that big and is very well documented. The rest is mostly personal preference. Good sounding gear is plentiful and need not cost a fortune. Setting it up well can be tricky but is not rocket science.

I get it. It’s a hobby!  Also folks need to sell things.   A perfect match!

Carry on.