Do Cables Wear Out?

Cable Threads on Audiogon NEVER wear out. They are always in fashion and there is at least one each week and they abound with clarity.

Mitch2, do you mean to say that you are calling my bluff? . . . 'Twas just about time someone did these days! It's amazing the kind of rubbish I am getting away with on the more frivolous threads. On the other hand. . . I thought it was a really neat idea, and I am sure careful application of Intelligent Chips and Clever Little Clocks to anyone's CDp would alleviate much of the noise caused by highly ionized Sulphur plasma in dirty AC from cole-fired power plants.

Aloysius

Guidocorona -- not so. It has been proven lately (see Holbein, & Mesmer in American Scientific, issue 69, Feb 31st 2009) that IC and CLC only impact air molecules, at quantum level.

On the other hand, OIL powered plants (the majority) inject paraben agents as preservatives into the electron flow. While this keeps the electrons immune from certain infections (and by the same token, protects our tubes & transistors from microbiological attack), it causes ALTERATIONS in the molecular structure of wires.

So given time, the wires ("cables") deteriorate and this is NON reversible!!!

So, buy back-up cables while the going is still good... as many as you can! There will come the day, not so far hence, when we will have equipment but NO WIRE!!!

Of course Grem, how could I dare dispute the words of such visionaries as Hans Holbein (the younger) c.1497–1543, and Friedrich Anton Mesmer 1734–1815. Their seminal work on visual hallucinatory side-effects of exposure to audio novelty products from MachinaDynamica remain true bastions of investigative research methodology. I can only regret that American Scientific's notoriously sluggish peer review process has taken over 500 years to approve Holbein's fundamental work, which had already been revised and approved for publication by Mesmer on the single 1908 issue of Physica Refutata dedicated to the upcoming Tunguska region event.

Guidocorona -- It's such a relief see that we speak the same language!