interesting, thoughtful post. i wonder about this stuff a lot. took a long, slow lok at disassembling one end of some morrow audio cables to add bana plug to one end. this and other cables ive examined have a geometry goin on. id imagine theres an informed geometry to it with many possibilities.
Cable design is a lot like creating a pizza
If you look at the construction of an RCA cable it can be very simple or can be very complicated. Eg. Audio quest higher end interconnect cables are extremely creative, the diagram on their website is visually stunning.
Ultimately, Cable design in many cables involves coloring the tonal signature. Cooking a pizza is all about making all the ingredients come together so it tastes amazing. Some do it a lot better than others and Pizza is a lot cheaper.
For cables, There are conductors, drain wires, shielding, Airfilled tubes, different gauges, etc…. Then there’s the copper strands which can be very detailed and numerous and twisted. So much going on.
With pizza you have cheese and sauce and spices and the dough and it’s all mixed together with all kinds of variation. Ultimately the sauce makes or breaks the success of a pizza slice.
With audio cables, hi end Cable designers are endlessly trying different ways to do all this. In the end they find something that sounds kind of nice. They may not know exactly why it does sound the way it does.
So that’s my take on Pizza design and cable design.
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I just figured the alcohol analogy went over your head, and the user name it had my wondering.
There is a local mushroom pizza with truffle oil and gorganzola that is pretty good.
Let me us another analogy. But maybe an iron skillet imparts a flavour that is different from a copper one.
If one is running mono blocks then the cables get shorter than a stereo amp in the middle, and their flavour diminishes.
Naples and other Italian places seem to make a decent pizza. And there are other countries that have decent pizzas. But I could see how NTC might be better than South Dakota or South Carolina. And I would not expect NYC to do BBQ like other places. |
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Making measurable things referred to as faith is a bit of an oxymoron.
I liked to color up to the end of kindergarten, but I moved away from that about the time I went from tricycles to bicycles. (And I graduated kindergarten at the normal age of 5-6.) I suppose if one has bright speakers, amps, or room, then it makes sense to try and colour things with a cable… especially if they are renting, or cannot control the room. |
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