But if that is what you believe in, I'm happy to respect your deeply held beliefs...[/QUOTE]
Not my deeply held belief.
I'm just wondering why it's not one of John's. It's been shown to "work" by the exact same measure other things, such as not using steel chassis have been shown to "work."
It "sounds better."
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Most cheap gear does not come with RGB/YPrPb or HDMI cables. Do you mean taking the "red-white-yellow" set and using it for HD? In that case I could understand.
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The cables with the steel center conductors measured no differently than those with pure copper wires.
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If you can't measure any difference that often is an indicator your test is not sensitive enough.
There are no freaking microdiode effects. I have deliberately add copper oxides to a conductor and after cooling the distortion did not change.
However there are microdiodes the Leprechauns keep them next to the pot of gold.
But Ed you showed pictures of sharp discontinuities in conductivity. The VI curves you posted will rectify (if they really exist).
My misread Thorsten
The curves you refer too are not microdiodes. Lets be clear that diodes always conduct although it is not linear as per voltage versus current. There is another issue (dead zone) and when I get a bit more along I'll show more.
The issue of oxide's forming diodes was a specific cable test and there were no changes noted at a level at which distortion in the interconnects was noted.
Yes. Gotta get some ultra pure, single crystal, Ohno continuous cast copper wire.
Cryoed of course.
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Best is unobtanium, then silver (Cyro if you prefer), then the rest. But I haven't tried carbon or some of the other candidates. Really busy.
Why don't you test them?
plain ole plain ole
Actually, since the cheap nasty plain copper hides the effects, Occam's razor suggest if one only uses cheap nasty plain old copper in all things audio, said effects will not be perceived, no?? Then this entire discussion will be moot. same for the steel canard thingie...
Actually, since the cheap nasty plain copper hides the effects, Occam's razor suggest if one only uses cheap nasty plain old copper in all things audio, said effects will not be perceived, no?? Then this entire discussion will be moot. same for the steel canard thingie...
A non-magnetic allot to consider is the Monels.
Magnetic properties and machinability of Monels
In a previous job we used them in 8" od, 2" ID and in 30 foot lengths to keep a magnetometer away from the steel pipe we were using.
Also one of the metals with the lowest Q for vibration is Lead, but health and safety is troublesome...
Wrinkle
Magnetic properties and machinability of Monels
In a previous job we used them in 8" od, 2" ID and in 30 foot lengths to keep a magnetometer away from the steel pipe we were using.
Also one of the metals with the lowest Q for vibration is Lead, but health and safety is troublesome...
Wrinkle
The VI curves would indicate rectification at a proper bias, in many tests this would be indistinguishable from diode-like behavior.
That is an interesting interpretation. I think the dead zone is symmetrical, although it may not be so. I think that any bias turns it on. So if the dead zone were say a volt and you biased it to a volt then a -.1 volt application would be linear down to .9 volts or a .1 volt application would raise it to 1,1 volt. But if you applied -1 volt then the dead zone would reappear until you hit -2 volts or back to zero, so it would be more of an offset to my view rather than a gate (Diode.)
On the issue of ferromagnetic materials (FMM) introducing audible distortion, I am going with this - thanks for posting. I do believe the AP does not lie. Of course, doing stupid things with the layout are to be avoided, but claiming you can 'hear' when FMM is used in the construction, especially in a small signal environment, seems apocryphal.
As usual I await your tests, 1V "dead zones" would hardly have passed unnoticed till now. You would do well to read up on Paschen's Law before speculating on charges jumping a small gap.
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