Hahahah! Calvin says some might never learn-
Hm- you mean basics like that magnetism and electric transmission are inseparably intertwined? 30 seconds on google will start explaining the details for anyone interested- adding a magnet is a source of high frequency loss, is the halfway cliffs notes version, but there are variations possible that are much more complex.
Another basic: cables don't meaningfully contribute to system THD and thus cannot lower system THD by any meaningful amount.
This is the first-semester stuff people. A tiny bit of intellectual curiosity would serve the denizens here well.
A magnetic or paramagnetic conductor could be made inductive as per my previous post (as could a Cu/Ag/Au/Al Conductor), but a proper technical evaluation would reveal nonlinearity as the issue driving lowered high frequency distortion components (not to mention that most distortion in typical audio systems is relatively low order and wouldn't be as proportionally affected by severe inductance)
What exactly is the deal you have to promote these cables Norm? Is it the same as you being an Emilar dealer but not registering as such, while hyping their products? A known shill with the gall to accuse others of nefarious motivation- classy.
Perhaps instead of questioning the points made from a position of ignorance, the people here should question "Do my assumptions and the claims associated with this product hold water? How can we validate what we're being told?"
It's not magic, there's an art component to hifi but the claims I take issue with are exceedingly easy to understand. It's obvious that those defending the position assumed by Rick don't even know what THD and IMD are, and why a passive device can't inherently reduce them without an extremely severe and problematic lowpass filter component (that any legitimate testing facility would find on their first test).
My credibility or any lack thereof comes from what I say. Nobody can offer a sound technical reason that anything I've said is inaccurate, because it's really simple stuff for anyone who's spent more than 30 seconds trying to understand the basis for how cable performance impacts system behavior.
For what it's worth, I do occasionally sell hifi to friends- the last few things I sold were all speakers (recouping parts cost from my experimentation- they're typically sold at less than the MSRP of the drivers) One esoteric cable seller has no effect on my life- I have no meaningful skin in the game, as most things I sell are at a loss and I enjoy building. My personal income is defined by a "regular" job, not hifi. Anyone who thinks that this tiny cable seller has any meaningful impact on the bottom line of anyone else is speaking from a position completely ignorant of the hifi marketplace, which is highly fragmented and not really based around standard market share metrics.
