Future of cables!

Sheesh guys, is this what ya'll do to entertain yourself?  Argue about theory of a misguided science article?  lol  Whatever floats your boat.  I'm going to put on some music and try to forget this conversation. lol

I studied E&M theory, taking all of the courses in it my graduate school had to offer. My qualifier exams took four days, one full day of closed book problems to be solved in electromagnetic theory and I made the top of the class in all my qualifier exams for which I spent over a year cramming. I found out after I graduated the authority I had earned the hard way was no match for salesmanship and charisma by the charlatans who sell such junk science as long grain copper and skin effect which they never bothered to calculate in their market-research derived cable designs. In the job market people with PhD's are discriminated against and in universities they are paid less than minimum wage while sports coaches get seven figure salaries paid for through tuition price gauging.
I think the future of cables will be more junk science at higher prices and the suckers who fall for it more stubbornly convincing themselves they can hear a difference because "double-blind listening tests are unfair,"

Answer me this, Mr. Electronics Authority, why is skin effect even an issue when the signal is not the audio waveform, i.e., it’s not frequency dependent? Furthermore, nobody said double blind tests are unfair. What was said was double blind tests are no more meaningful than any other type of test. They can also be easily rigged, so in that sense you’re right.

Um, Basically "ALL", of the "Assumptions", That "Djones51" is currently spouting are simply incorrect. 
And, "yes", they indeed "Are", (assumptions) Which sound as if gained through a flawed perception that may need to be re-calibrated to base-point.
 And when you assume too many things......Bad things may come to pass.

I hated to have to say that. But someone, (Without a dog in the fight), "needed" to point that out.

Having degrees up the wazoo holds no more relevance when listening than having a chest full of medals while engaged in combat. Ask the dead.

It's back to the old semantic maxim in that the the flag is not the nation, the word is not the thing, the map is not the territory.

It's great to have a good foundation to move onward from, but not to hold you back with.

All the best,
Nonoise

Interesting article, thanks for posting. I enjoy reading about what research is being done.

It only works for "ballistic conduction".  Our speaker wires are too long to be qualified as "ballistic conductor".  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_conduction

In mesoscopic physics, ballistic conduction (ballistic transport) is the transport of charge carriers (usually electrons) in a medium, having negligible electrical resistivity caused by scattering. Without scattering, electrons simply obey Newton's second law of motion at non-relativistic speeds.

"Scattering" is the basic electron movement in our audio cables and NOT ballistic.  In audio cables, the electrons will encounter "scattering" all over the place so unfortunately they will have to face the dreaded Audiogon forum scattering lols. 

Ballistic conduction may also work inside of Hollywood movies like "Real Genius" :-)