Strange, in Indonesia "unhappy childhood" translate as "masa kecil kurang bahagia". We use this phrase in same situation.
How about some measurements to look at or sound files to listen to instead of the endless blah blah blah?
And if you dismiss even something simple like the analysis of a couple of cables to look for a mechanism then you are being closed minded.
What useful arguments does Mark bring to the discussion IYO, do any of them help this thread? He has said he thinks it's pointless posting files because some people won't believe him. BTW, can you answer my question?
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Do you know microphony, tribo-electric and piezo-electric noise in cable?
How is it affect to the sound or it is no relationship with the sound?
I suspect if you asked Amir to make some other meaningful measurements, he would add those to the test process and build up some data on the results.
It is a bit sursprising that now listeners should have the obligation to state hypothesises (and even provide measurements) about the reasons for any (maybe existent) audible difference.
It often helps to specify the question.....
@billshurv,
the basic (ok, it's a matter of definition wrt "basic") engineering does not help, as normal bandwidth calculations show that everything is ok.
I've said in the past that it would help to draw the most basic configuration of a signal source, preamplifier and an power amplifier with ground connections and asymmetrical interconnections to see where problems might arise.
IMO even basic engineering leads to the conclusion that this quite typical configuration is able to provide many open doors for common impedance coupling, interference - some selfinduced,some from the outside - so problems more likely than unlikely.
A few posts back, the ones you ignored when you quoted me, no problem if you can't find them
Zactly. These are all measurable. Many without advanced equipment. I would make no claims for audibility but one could at least rank cables according to how well engineered they are for the task at hand.That would be a start.
Bill,
There is a cable manufacturer who wraps a cellophane like material around the foil shield layer in some of their audio specific cables. This allows them to extrude the jacket easier and faster. Of course it makes the cable triboelectric like nothing else. Doesn't really stand out as a problem as it is meant to be an installed cable on low impedance circuits.
Of course if the cable path runs into vibration like from a ventilation fan the signal to noise ratio on microphone level circuits drops below acceptable levels. Most folks don't pick up the problem as it is generally at 20 or 30 hertz! But it does tend to overload inputs until the gain trim is turned down and the signal to noise ratio degraded.
So the problem does occur and is almost always ignored or missed.
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