It doesn't. Kastor has a few things to learn about gauge variability, error bars, and R&R. Google fishing is hazardous unless you already have a pretty good BS filter.
I'd assume with a relatively pure amplifier and pure transducer, if you connect them with a few metres of Lead wire, Lead as in the metal, to use a non-efficient example, that should affect transient response and THD to some extent.
A pure 1 kHz or 5 kHz or 7 kHz sine will not pass through non-interacted, since there is some interaction in the pathway.
If you increase the thickness of the Lead, it will become more efficient, but there is still interaction.
"I'd assume .."
It is really better not to assume in engineering. It is no different from guessing.
Hence your following paragraphs are pure nonsense, I'm afraid.
It is really better not to assume in engineering. It is no different from guessing.
Hence your following paragraphs are pure nonsense, I'm afraid.
If the cable can't be described in physical terms - it is probably soaked in snake oil.
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It all started with Nigel's comment that he had to measure actual cables to find that there were significant differences.
Then all hell breaks loose with various folk alleging that copper can't have different resistances.
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I'm not assuming, look at the Rin Choi and Nelson Pass papers and you will see clear differences in THD and transient response.
If you can't link me to THD in a Lead cable then your thought parameters are equally rich in assumption, thus equally nonsense if we follow your statement.
Of course it can 🙂
But if your application does better with one or the other production method is a totally different question.
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This is true, but 7N Copper and Silver can be described in physical terms, Chrome and Lead as well.
I'd say HDMI cables can't, perhaps a Ferrite clamp or a thicker plastic is the usual case.
As I wrote, many transducer cables have unadvertised resistance or capacitance, they become passive equalizers with significant sonic differences.
....but isn't the only application where minor resistance differences in an RCA cable is of any real importance is between a turntable and a Phono pre?
6 metres of wire on the way directly into your ear or speaker is the most important if we look at the entire system.
This thread title says interconnects so I think I'll leave now.
No. Copper can't have very different resistances; it can have somewhat different resistances, but even this is irrelevant for interconnects.
That's interesting. I would assume exactly the opposite - no change whatsoever in transient response and THD. But what do I know? I just use circuit theory, based on the low frequency lumped approximation to Maxwell's equations. What do you use?Kastor L said:
The load has non-linearity. That is why the cables change the graphs.
The graphs are only showing the importance of lower resistance cables. The metals of the wires are not producing any distortion.
Yes, it will do so for non linear loads.
Same wire resistance will produce the same results, independent of the wire composition.
jn
Could be, but you're assuming that the error bars are smaller than the reported results.
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