The truth about interconnects - can you handle it?

Wires make difference on components that are not properly designed and tend to pick up and oscillate from already increased 21st century RF influence causing large circuit instability or even permanent damage.

Like in the old-day designes all you've got to do is not to let it be present in the input (piece of cake actually) with pennies worth of electronic elements. Tend to say that ALL audio circuits had been already designed and have a bunch of ways to avoid bias instability and RF influence.

For me as EE working in large financial institution(as a financial specialist) there is a very simple explaination:

Electronic specialists needn't reinvent any wheel nowdays. All the specifications on audio-electronic equipment jumped far higher than standards of High Fidelity and the question stays pretty clear: How to "resurrect" the dying after 80's audio market?

All you need(as a designer or manufacturer) to do is hook-up a dealer or few(market stability) explain him that you've got some outstanding own scientific conclusions and selected the best of the best to create this wire that should retail for the price of diamond necklace. Dealer is the one with commercial sting will add some "harmonic distortions" to transduce it with nice advertizing manner to his dumb client.

Yeah, wires and cables do "its best" for the ones who hears well and reads well commercial magazines to compensate simple and inexpencive circuit elements that should be present in every audio component but believe me they are not.

What drove me realy for my conclusion is despite my knowlege of electricity and signals I started to read magazines and started to develop some belief but...

I was CURIOUS to strip my Mainstream Hybrid expencive powercord and realized that it's OXIDED after one year of usage!!!!!!!! WHERE THE HELL IS 99.9999999999 OFC COOPER???
I also looked up in Home Depot power wires that I have a large roll for near three years and there were no corrosion whatsoever!!!

Anyone wishes to strip some Shyniata or Siltech out here?

I also stand for component manufacturers that stand for their product(where they realy put labor) able to proove that their components sound equally to the listener with ANY type of interconnects or speaker wires and believe me there are such and many of us after my post can write them bellow...

None denies that cables sound different but by all means when you strip or look inside the mega-priced ones you see just the same industrial grade wires with some phoney information about close to ideal purity that you can easily buy for pennies at Home Depot. The same thing is to the speaker wires as well.

Any further fancy coating and gold-plated plugs for $50/pr just makes no sence at all. No need to go further than $9/pr Dayton connectors in that case for even $100k equipment.

Wires that cost like a diamond necklace won't ever be any better than $40/pr ones. And in that price range there are plenty-of-plenty to choose the one you'll like if you will hear the differences between them. They will certainly sound better than thin RS ones for $3.

The reactance influence is so minimal and audio freequencies that you needn't worry about that as long as equipment does not oscillate from RF.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION:

before 80's people did not hear substantial differences in interconnects as they "hear" it right now since some of them rich the cost of diamond necklace(yo gotta be keddin' if they don't improve sound!)

so the hearing abilities is much greater nowdays than back than. think about it we now even hear an audio furniture!

jchen,

I should thank you for pointing out objective realizm!

That approach should realy be applied not to only wires but to anything else you're purchasing including the very rest of audio-goods.

Taz,
I've no doubdt as you do that cables might/or might not sound different...

The main fact I realy care about is pricing of cables that realy don't show any of the engineering or scientific mechanizm and might even rich the cost of a good speaker or the source component.

That is the main today's audio-bull that realy psychologically drives by its beautifull design(only out-view realy counts!) making naive and rich believe that they will change the sound a lot. In fact in audio freequencies wires can only change the responce(on randomly selected freequencies) by 0.1...0.3dB(now that's to the real measured and objective differences between $10 RadioShack speaker wire and $300 JPS speaker wire). These differences are only can be audiable with infected brain but not with ears.

As to manufacturers that produce ultra-wide-band amps able to start parasite oscillation at RF(that's where shielded costly wires might work) breaking-up the normal performance I want to emphisize with bold letters that audio amplifier should ONLY work at audio freequencies. The rest of junk must be filtered out not with wires $2k/m/pr but with simple penny-cost passive and active elements; the double-side PC-board must be properly measured for overall reactance and analyzed for self-resonances that might occur during RF interfearance.

Tom,
Hope no hard fealings 'bout "cryin' towel"?:-)

Seems to me that you're not "just listening" but calculating before... and this I consider also as a scientific tool to objectively evaluate worthiness of an investment.
Many present cases with interconnects and speaker wires do not require scientific knowlege of electronics and measurements and only by doing budget estimate you realize
what stays on right place and what does not.