Well this EE would like to point out that it's not the electrons that move through the cable at all - it's charge or electromagnetic flux. It is very similar to the way sound waves travel through the air. The air molecules do not move from the source to your ear they instead impart their momentum to the particle next them and so on and so on. The speed at which a charge moves through a cable is termed the propagation delay. Like sound, the speed of propagation changes depending on the material it is being propagated through. In a copper cable the speed of propagation is roughly 2/3 times the speed of light. - Dan
Capacitance: Help me understand
I have been trying to match interconnects with my system. everyone keeps telling me I probably have a capacitance problem with the Wireworld Gold Eclipse III that connects my preamp and amp. I have no idea of what this is, but Isure can hear the effect it is supposedly causing, a too deep soundstsage with diminished volume from the center image.Can someone explain capacitance to me? I am not stupid, just clueless.