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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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roxy54
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My snoring just woke me up...

wolf_garcia
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A pizza that adds and subtracts nothing to your esthetic experience...hmm...alert the metaphor police immediately.

rodman99999
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     I have but one word, to express my personal view as regards the Church of Denyin'tology and it's obfuscating, classically (possibly: willfully) obtuse adherents:

                             floccinaucinihilipilification

                                    Happy listening!

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holmz
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You are very good at obfuscation.

well done sir.

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thyname
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I have but one word, to express my personal view as regards the Church of Denyin'tology

It never ceases to amaze me the length these people go to just “prove” their denialism. So much time wasted & spent in researching, typing, and reading this stuff armed with a powerful Google machine, just to claim some audio thing, anything audio, does not work and it’s a waste of (other people’s) money. If that same energy and human labor and time was put  instead to practical & productive use (I.e getting gainful employment), they would instead perhaps be able to buy afford, and try the same exact thing(s) they bash nonstop all day every day in all audio forums constantly. Just a thought 

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