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Gunfu, I am sure there are huge optical differences between those cables.

Pretty much any cable will do 0-20kHz from a stable source into a reasonable impedance without creating measurable artifacts, regardless of it being used for audio or whatever. I am with Peter Walker on this one.
You're missing the trick. The "high-end" "Audiophile" cables often (intentionally!) add enough capacitance and inductance to make measurable and audible differences, and if there's an audible difference, the more expensive one must be better!
 
For you from Wales, I would write that all grades of whiskey are the same? Do you think this is so?


I think you all missed Ohm's law. He says that the current through a non-linear load will also always be non-linear, which means that the voltage drop across the conductors will also be non-linear, which is already distortion at the speaker terminals.
https://audio-database.com/AUREX/amp/sc-lambda90f(11).JPG
 
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After I shaved my hair off because I could not get to a barber In time because of this Covid thang, my siblings told me I looked like a criminal.

Finally, at 63 I have street cred.
 
I'm having one of my hunts for records with better dynamics and, as part of the analysis wanted to measure crest factor. Foobar DR plugin gives an RMS to peak measurement across a whole track but that doesn't give a full picture. Made me think, how long a period do you use to calculate crest factor and does it actually make any sense as a metric with real music?

CoolEdit lets you select the time window and it makes a big difference. IMHO this makes me skeptical of some of the purported DNR measuring tools. For a given time window there will be a distribution of crest factors, with random noise these can be computed. Bill did you think you could slip in a real technical issue here?
 
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For you from Wales, I would write that all grades of whiskey are the same? Do you think this is so?


I think you all missed Ohm's law. He says that the current through a non-linear load will also always be non-linear, which means that the voltage drop across the conductors will also be non-linear, which is already distortion at the speaker terminals.
https://audio-database.com/AUREX/amp/sc-lambda90f(11).JPG

Even if the load displays a non-linear V/I characteristic, the wire driving it will display a linear I*R characteristic. Unless it doesn't, in which case it is not a wire.

Cheers!
Howie
 
Even if the load displays a non-linear V/I characteristic, the wire driving it will display a linear I*R characteristic. Unless it doesn't, in which case it is not a wire.

Cheers!
Howie
Yes, only you are confused again, load resistance and wire resistance are two different things. And the current flows through them the same i.e. common. This problem can only be for third-grade students who have not yet studied Ohm's law for nonlinear circuits, and not for an engineer.



Cheers!
 
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Yes, only you are confused again, load resistance and wire resistance are two different things. And the current flows through them the same i.e. common. This problem can only be for third-grade students who have not yet studied Ohm's law for nonlinear circuits, and not for an engineer.
Cheers!

Insults aside, I assumed you were saying that the wire displayed non-linear behavior, which, if it is made of copper it does not, no matter what load it is connected to, linear or not.

Howie
 
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