Subcoolman you asked:
The reason cable performance changes from one placement to another has a great deal to do with the primitive technol ogy the industry is married to. Every time a given cable is inserted in to an electrical device the cable reacts to the load the device is presenting, change the load and the cable sounds different. In other words, the designs are very unstable. The cause has very little to do with capacitance,impedance etc. these measurements were developed by AT&T back in the 30's for phone line service across the country, I do not think your audio cables are thousands of miles long. Electromagnetics and resonance are the real issues that are not being addressed. Cable conductors could have 60 nines purity,but without the proper field technology all thoes nines are irrelevant. Bad cable design is the major reason why audio systems still sound like audio systems. So if you feel like a novice take a ticket and get in line with everyone else.
The reason cable performance changes from one placement to another has a great deal to do with the primitive technol ogy the industry is married to. Every time a given cable is inserted in to an electrical device the cable reacts to the load the device is presenting, change the load and the cable sounds different. In other words, the designs are very unstable. The cause has very little to do with capacitance,impedance etc. these measurements were developed by AT&T back in the 30's for phone line service across the country, I do not think your audio cables are thousands of miles long. Electromagnetics and resonance are the real issues that are not being addressed. Cable conductors could have 60 nines purity,but without the proper field technology all thoes nines are irrelevant. Bad cable design is the major reason why audio systems still sound like audio systems. So if you feel like a novice take a ticket and get in line with everyone else.