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| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? No. | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Djones51,You can’t find evidence to support a negative (I.E. that a diety doesn’t exist) because you can’t prove a negative. Those who believe in a deity can prove that the deity exists by simply producing said deity. However, one cannot prove tha... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Geoffkait;wire “burning-in”? You’re pulling our legs, right? Would you please tell me what there is in a piece of coax to burn-in? Don’t tell me that it’s the dielectric that’s forming. That occurs in seconds when it is applicable. In cable, It’s ... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Exupgh2,I see a lot of you “pro-boutique cable” guys seem to be content that cables sound “different”. But I see very few posts that say that their boutique cables sound better than what they were using before, just different. My question is this:... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? It’sjustme sure Interconnects can smear, but they shouldn’t be able to do that at audio frequencies. Coax can do lots of “funny“ things, but they do them at VHF and UHF frequencies and above. At real low frequencies, like audio, none of these “exo... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Boxster12;I explained above, but I’ll do it again. Until your post, I had never seen Interconnects abbreviated “IC”. I am a retired semiconductor design engineer by profession. When I see the term IC, I don’t naturally think of interconnects, I th... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Geoffkait;Please forgive my IC comment. I was a semiconductor engineer for many years. When I see the letters”IC”, the first thing that comes to mind in an audio context is operational amplifiers, microprocessors, DAC chips etc. Not wire! | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Moto_man;you hit the nail squarely on the head. No cable, irrespective of price sounds the same in any two systems (unless they are identical, of course). So the consumer is always buying a pig in a poke. “Interconnects are like a box of chocolat... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Mocassin2,When one thinks about what comes before and after The “boutique” power cord: miles of cable before the mains plug including the house wiring and circuit breakers, and a tiny fuse filament and 18 - 20 gauge wire before and after the fuse ... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Boxer12;I have ever made a comment about ICs, cheap or expensive. You have me confused with someone else, I’m afraid.About your electromagnetic radiation comment. You are assuming that it is always present in all systems in enough quantity to audi... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Mahgister-It’s not that silver cables “add something” over their copper equivalents, it’s that silver subtracts less because it’s a better conductor and has less resistance and possibly less capacitive and inductive reactance.And in my considerabl... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? When I say that cables can’t add anything, they can only subtract, I’m pointing out the passive nature of wire. It is not an active component; ie, it has no gain over any part of it’s pass bandwidth. Therefore cable is what we call lossy. This gen... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Wire can only subtract information (not that all do) from the signal it’s conducting. Since wire is not active, only passive, it cannot add anything. Who would want a cable that attenuates portions of the audio spectrum that they are trying to con... | |
| 1st SACD Purchase One thing that I have found vis-a-vis CD vs SACD vs High-Res (streaming or on Blu-Ray or Audio DVD) is that it's not so much the resolution that determines SQ but rather the care put into the mastering that matters. Here's an example: I have the ... | |
| Golden Tube Audio SE-40 I need a SERVICE manual for the Golden Tube Audio SE-40. I have the owner's manual and a "rough" schematic, but without voltage readings at key points, it's not a lot of help. Too bad that Sams PhotoFacts are gone, they were truly a repairman's fr... |