Old news. How old? I was introduced to this back in 1990.
For those who are bad at math, we're only about a month or two shy of that being 30 years ago.
Okay. So now here's the thing- the question of WHY, at least as it relates to what to look for, construction, wire gauge, or any of that, is a colossal waste of time. The differences are there, as everyone who bothers to compare can prove to themselves quickly and easily enough.
What I cannot for the life of me understand though is why everyone gets so hung up on WHY?!?! Why matters only if you're trying to build one. Or if the theory is so well established as to be useful.
This simply is not the case with wire. The minute we begin to talk about subtle audible refinements of attack, decay, tone, harmonics, extension, imaging, etc all our conventional standards of measurement go right out the window. They are irrelevant. Could hardly matter less.
Insulators, conductors, geometry, purity, a million others, on and on it goes, over the 30+ years every silly thing you can imagine and a lot more you can't, they have all been touted as the reason why the Bombastic Binford 2000 power cord is so much better than last years Symphonic Crescendo 800. Its all BS.
Don't misunderstand me. Not saying there's no reason. There's always reasons. Saying the reasons given are so poorly understood you might as well just ignore them.
What does matter, the ONLY thing that matters, is how they sound.
For that, go and listen.
For those who are bad at math, we're only about a month or two shy of that being 30 years ago.
Okay. So now here's the thing- the question of WHY, at least as it relates to what to look for, construction, wire gauge, or any of that, is a colossal waste of time. The differences are there, as everyone who bothers to compare can prove to themselves quickly and easily enough.
What I cannot for the life of me understand though is why everyone gets so hung up on WHY?!?! Why matters only if you're trying to build one. Or if the theory is so well established as to be useful.
This simply is not the case with wire. The minute we begin to talk about subtle audible refinements of attack, decay, tone, harmonics, extension, imaging, etc all our conventional standards of measurement go right out the window. They are irrelevant. Could hardly matter less.
Insulators, conductors, geometry, purity, a million others, on and on it goes, over the 30+ years every silly thing you can imagine and a lot more you can't, they have all been touted as the reason why the Bombastic Binford 2000 power cord is so much better than last years Symphonic Crescendo 800. Its all BS.
Don't misunderstand me. Not saying there's no reason. There's always reasons. Saying the reasons given are so poorly understood you might as well just ignore them.
What does matter, the ONLY thing that matters, is how they sound.
For that, go and listen.