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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Why would I have an audio precision scope? and do they even measure capacitance and inductance? If I was building cable for retail sale, then I would likely have the tools to measure both capacitance and inductance. But I usually buy Mogami wire which have the specs published per meter por foot. As I want to minimise capacitance and inductance I just use short cables. I suppose if I liked the sound of higher values, then I could just use longer cables…
It is the designers who appear to be blind without some specs to define their cable.
New cables are in the post to me. But I’ll keep the avatar. It shows the system right after a move, when we needed to get it running a year ago. I would have used a coat hanger, if I did not have a spool of wire. But this thread was about cables being like pizzas, so why the attack? Your cables are more like imported dog food or baby formula…
TT fellow said use the shortest cable you can, and a low dielectric constant seems better, and try to use 23ga or larger, and try to find one with low capacitance.
@roxy54 can you point out the excellent ones? |
Yeah. However as many use a cable as a tone control, then that gets difficult when it is a tuning device. And hence the cables are made like pizzas with no specs to determine what electrical characteristics might be similar for system tuning. |
*L* Another forum that starts off cheesy, chills, and everyone gets stuck and strung out....into cable consternation....yet again. @holmz ...cables as a very subtle form of eq....and brag rights, I suppose. I don't make claims to perfection, so feel no need to get involved..... "If it makes you happy, why are you so sad?" |
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