AudioQuest DBS Field

Kijanki I'm making no claims what so ever about Audioquest cables and their relative worth. Merely that the jargon gets good sometimes. I read the monograph you referenced and yes that is a pretty good one on caps not conductors. Go to another outfit like Synergistic and they will go on and on about how megavoltages from a vandergraph generator make the cable better. As these two approaches are completely opposite one must be incorrect. Yet both seem to be decent cables ergo it is likely that the sciency bits are more marketing. I'm not sure about cables but telling me that cable X will align the quantum flux is not helping. In this case extrapolating capacitor behavior on to conducting cables seems dangerous.

I need to keep my mouth shut I guess. either way I do hope everyone finds success with these however they work.

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Paulsax - Cable is capacitor. Its capacitance and inductance might play role. Purity of metal might play role as well. The rest of it is a big question mark.

I had two speaker cables with about similar highs, lows and midrange but one of them was lean sounding while the other was full sounding (male voices chestiness). Difference was very pronounced (lower midrange) with the same amp and speakers. I don't know how to explain it just with resistance, capacitance and inductance model.

I'm always very skeptical but at my first encounter with better than lamp cord speaker cable - Audioquest Indigo (sold by foot) I experienced very muffled sound for first 30 min then very bright sound that eventually settled. People claim that there is no break-in with cables and nothing is better than lamp cord.

OK I see what you mean Kijanki. Have to have a think on this one. One reason I'm leary is the EMF vectors completely different and much of the dipole aspect makes less or no sense.

to me the inductance is more relevant but..........

nice discussion.

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I've had the AQ Panthers and Cheetahs ic's in my system. Whilst I never did a direct A/B comparison with the DBS system on or off (not exactly a well controlled study), I can say that these cables never needed any burn-in time. They sonic signtature remained fairly constant with time, which I like.

I wish I could comment on the sonic improvements of the DBS. They are nice cables, generally well priced given and engineered.

Some have suggested that a test of the DBS can be conducted by listening with the battery connected and then disconnected. Stereophile tried that approach and heard no difference. Audioquest countered that such a test would not reveal anything since the purpose of the battery's electric field is to keep the dialectic formed, and once formed it takes days or weeks to unform.

The way I understand it is that the battery helps keep the dialectric in the same state as if you played the cable regularly or daily. So, the only meaningful test would be to have identical cables, one with the battery pack attached, and one without the battery pack attached and which had not been used for some relatively long period. Even then, if you played the cable without the battery pack long enough during the testing, its performance would approach that of the other cable.

So this is a difficult situation to evaluate. My experience with the AQ DBS is that I do not seem to notice any significant change in sound (breakin) after periods of several days of not playing the system. Whether that is due to the DBS or not I can not prove, however, at the least it keeps me from fretting about it.