I would have used a coat hanger, if I did not have a spool of wire.
My bad. I should have stopped engaging coat hanger folks from the beginning. Totally my bad.
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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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?" |
Nice post Jerry. Well - for me the unhappiness is that everyone is piling on with “just listen to it” like a “supreme” pizza where the majority of poster are the same toppings..
This could actually be a great thread if people talked about the dielectric and insulation material, voltage biasing, shielding, weave patterns, and even silver versus copper and solid versus stranded cables. Then we could actually have some adult conversation as to what/how these things might contribute to some sound signature. And whether those things are additive and act in a synchronised manner, or whether some negate the other. |
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