Not most. All of it is wrong. The USA is the absolute best at mass production. In WW 2 it out produced the rest of the entire world by a factor of 10! It is just that we would rather build cars and military items rather than Hi Fi gear.
All of what has been done with contacts, switches etc. has been to improve durability and prevent corrosion. The real science behind wire and conductors is very old. Everything else is marketing BS of the highest order. Thank you Monster Cable.
Materials science has improved a lot over the last three decades and this has certainly influence mechanical items such as speaker drivers, cartridges and 787s. Todays cartridges are superior due to better, more accurate construction techniques and much better diamonds with more advanced profiles. Now we are going to hear from chakster about old Stantons and Pickerings that used simple hyper elliptical styluses (the stereohedron) which in no way compare to modern line contact styluses like the Gyger S and Soundsmiths OLC. I can't tell how many cartridges I got with crooked cantilevers and cockeyed styluses. I see none of that now.
All of what has been done with contacts, switches etc. has been to improve durability and prevent corrosion. The real science behind wire and conductors is very old. Everything else is marketing BS of the highest order. Thank you Monster Cable.
Materials science has improved a lot over the last three decades and this has certainly influence mechanical items such as speaker drivers, cartridges and 787s. Todays cartridges are superior due to better, more accurate construction techniques and much better diamonds with more advanced profiles. Now we are going to hear from chakster about old Stantons and Pickerings that used simple hyper elliptical styluses (the stereohedron) which in no way compare to modern line contact styluses like the Gyger S and Soundsmiths OLC. I can't tell how many cartridges I got with crooked cantilevers and cockeyed styluses. I see none of that now.