Future of cables!

Geoff I am not enough intelligent to guess when you are serious, dismissive, ironic, sceptic or believer, or experimented and knowledgeable.... Help me... :)

DYODD. That’s what I did. Geoff was the first to take me to task back when I began posting here. His very first comment seemed like it was merely a misunderstanding. That he had misunderstood the science. Which education being what it is these days happens all the time. With his second response however it was immediately apparent he really does know nothing- and it must be something else.

Key points: immediately apparent, he really does know nothing- AND it must be something else.

Immediately apparent is hard to explain. Easiest way is like this. Think of some subject you personally in your life know really well. You know it inside and out. Whatever it is does not matter. Point is, when you know something like the back of your hand no one can BS you. You spot the BS immediately. Its that way with me and science. Read through my posts. First real book I read was Red Giants and White Dwarfs by NASA scientist Robert Jastrow. This was in grade school. I learned how stars form and evolve and understood the material in grade school.

Folks, I read this book for pleasure. For the pleasure of learning.

Even so, just to be sure, DYODD. So I do a search. In no time flat it turns up machinadynamica.com which in a few minutes convinces me. This site is the biggest mess of word salad I’ve ever seen. This is not the product of a rational mind. Unless.... further research turns up a hit on a guy who posted about meeting Geoff at a show. Says Geoff is just poking fun at audiophiles and their silly willingness to believe in all kinds of BS.

Well he claims to be a theoretical physicist. For sure he loves the jargon. But the gulph between being able to type a word and knowing its meaning is wide indeed. Geoff is standing on one side of the Grand Canyon. I would need a telescope or maybe even a satellite to make him out from where I am standing. Or anyone, for that matter, with what used to be considered a high school education.

So, about that rational mind. If you assume Geoff is here for the same reason we are, to learn how to achieve and appreciate quality music reproduction, then he is frustrating and enigmatic and seems totally irrational. If however we grant the story of the one guy who actually claims to have met him, that he enjoys tweaking and triggering and making fun of us, well then he is behaving beautifully rationally.

You asked for help understanding Geoff. So there you go.

Captain Irrelevant asks:

1. Does external vibration affect the signal in wires and if so how?

Yes. And see below.

2. Why do seemingly inert audio components like solid state amps benefit from being isolated from external vibration?

They don't. They benefit from vibration control. There is no such thing as isolation.

3. Is the audio signal In wires itself vibrational?

Yes. Which answers the first question as well.

Good luck with that. It will stay because its not abusive, nor rude, and only trolling in the sense of tweaking people to think about something they find very uncomfortable, namely the way so many are misled about tech.

Tech doesn't matter, for all the examples I listed. Pick any technical factor you care to name. Any. I don't care. Pure silver. Pure copper. Heck for that matter I said any technical factor so pick something like capacitance. Resistance. Whatever. ANY! 

For any one you pick that is supposed to be the Holy Grail secret determinative of performance I will find you something way better built on a completely different philosophy, design, principle, technology- whatever you want to call it.
Because the point I am making, which is not trolling because it is flat out true, is there are so many factors that go into determining the ultimate sound quality that its beyond silly to try and say this is the one.

If you find the truth rude, or if you find yourself upset to learn not everyone thinks just like you, buckle up bucko, because this is life and hate to shock again but it just doesn't always go the way we want.

Its not what I think, its what I know. What I know is it doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter to the point not even wasting my time to read the article. Because it is a waste of time. 

There you go again Miller, dissing science. Come on, man! (Intended to be read in look of pain Biden voice.) No way you can "know"!

Okay. Fair point. Except, let’s see- new dielectric. New geometry. Long grain crystals. Pure copper. Pure silver. Five nines pure long grain crystal copper. Active Shielding. No shielding. Active ground. Passive ground. Ground plane. Just the ones that come to mind. Anyone been around this stuff for 30 years like me has long since forgotten more revolutionary transformative new technologies than we remember.

"The future of" tech stories are a dime a dozen. You want to know "the future"? Forget tech. Read reviews. Pay attention to how it sounds. Go and listen. Find it. That’s the future.