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Cables ... no longer opinion

PS Audio has already did the research. The answers are available forevermore.
The testing is sound, and not flawed. Their test results find exactly the same results my cable manufacturer found and preached. Josh from Downsize Audio Cables also found two strips of foils, stacked on top of each other and secured together made the best sounding speaker cables. I've tried all kinds of hyper expensive cables to dethrone the Downsize Audio foils ... NOTHING comes close at any price.
      Downsize used a genuine teflon backed adhesive tape, double sided too, and custom rolled, extra thin foil of 6N purity. BUT he told me a person can get 90% of the same sound quality, using off the shelf inductor foils and standard thin packing tape. Try it and save tens of thousands of dollars.
https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/the-sound-of-speaker-cables-an-analysis/
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glupson
7,842 posts
 
"I had over $100,000 worth of Tara labs RSC cable......I wish I had that money back."

You should have asked first.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"Same as the ones who know more EE than Max Townshend."


...who is famous for electric engineering of.....seismic isolation podium.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
I just wasted some time reading that PS Audio/Max T. link. Attempt at science, for sure, credible statements, surely not.

Any deviation from “flat” should be measurable and will most likely be audible as a tonal change in the audio signal.
No, most likely not. Do not assume.

"The experimental method has been described in detail, to enable researchers to repeat the tests in order to verify the conclusions."

Where has it been described? Not in the video link provided. At least not a comprehensive method.

"There is little doubt that speaker cables affect the sound of audio systems. Audiophiles have known this since the 1970s and there has been an ongoing debate ever since."


How come there is an ongoing debate when there is little doubt? Even "little doubt" is an exaggerated assumption.

"This analysis clearly describes the cause of audible differences between a range of cables, and the examples included demonstrate this effect."

If anything, it describes oscilloscope readings and not audible differences.

"This is analogous to the chaos in speaker cables where there is a mismatch between the cable and the speaker. This chaos is the main reason for the all-so-common brightness and hardness heard in audio systems."

Says who? Based on what? In whole test, nobody listened to anything.

It goes on and on with some marketing quasi-scientific mumbo-jumbo. It would not be accepted at the middle-school science fair.
cd45123
196 posts
 
Isn’t Tellurium using ribbons? Silversmith doesn’t stack their’s together but very very popular now.
petg60
1,486 posts
 
Siltech used ribbon technology back in the early 90's with FT spc and FTM ic's.

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