@hilde45 - here’s a link to the entire hard-cover Audio Critic library as it currently exists. I found them to be very interesting reading, although I certainly didn’t agree with everything they wrote. Still, the Audio Critic is a piece of high end audio history that is worth looking at, IMO. There is also a link to their later "web zine" on the page.
How does cable construction affect sonic character?
I think this altered cartoon expresses the gap between cable skeptics and believers. No one knows what happens in the brain, the machinery between the engineered cable and the subjective experience (expressed in language). It's something miraculous -- or, for skeptics -- it's nothing.
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Cable construction, specifically spacing between connectors, can affect the capacitance and inductance, which, if large enough, have measurable effects on frequency response at the speaker. The science guys do not say all cables sound the same. They say that cables that measure the same sound the same. “Cable believers” as many refer to them, believe that cables that measure the same can sound different. Take your choice. It’s your money and ears. |
For anyone interested, here's an old article from the Audio Critic, demonstrating how differences in resistance, inductance and capacitance affect frequency response at the speaker. One thing - I believe they used 10 meters of cable, which could certainly exacerbate the differences in measurements over, say, 10 feet of cable, but here it is anyway. https://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/mags/The_Audio_Critic_16_r.pdf |