ah - misunderstood your post. I thought you were suggesting hard wiring between components. but it sounds like your advocating building all components in one chassis.
given the lengths and costs some go to on cables, why not use them between components but place them inside copper tubing from home depot 🙃
I'm not a believer in cables making a difference, as long as the geometry is appropriate and the connectors are joined to the cable well.
given the lengths and costs some go to on cables, why not use them between components but place them inside copper tubing from home depot 🙃
I'm not a believer in cables making a difference, as long as the geometry is appropriate and the connectors are joined to the cable well.
You don’t need to believe anything but external connections are good antennas in polluted environments.
When one walks around in the technical field for some time it is often a recurring experience that simplicity gives best results. Less is more indeed.
HiFi separates will be gone in a few years from now anyway so some issues will solve themselves 🙂
When one walks around in the technical field for some time it is often a recurring experience that simplicity gives best results. Less is more indeed.
HiFi separates will be gone in a few years from now anyway so some issues will solve themselves 🙂
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I do believe that. I just file it away in my statment about appropriate geometry/ connectors to mitigate it. not trying to argue at all, I think we're pretty much on the same page.
Can't have all in one component, I have two speakers and they are 8 feet apart. 🙂
I have tried twisted pair, coax, and parallel wires, for both interconnects and speaker cables. Some cable of the same type, like two twisted pair cables, one sounds good, another muddy. So all the different topologies work but maybe the quality of the copper or insulation, or maybe the terminations made a difference. With purchased cables they may not tell you what they are made with, you just have to listen to them in your system to see how they sound.
Had some 8 gauge coax from Belden that I used for short speaker cables and they sounded pretty good. For DIYers playing with inexpensive cables can be fun. Going through the Belden catalog I try to find low capacitance per foot, stranded, and polyproplene or teflon insulation, then tried different topologies and see what you get sonically.
I have tried twisted pair, coax, and parallel wires, for both interconnects and speaker cables. Some cable of the same type, like two twisted pair cables, one sounds good, another muddy. So all the different topologies work but maybe the quality of the copper or insulation, or maybe the terminations made a difference. With purchased cables they may not tell you what they are made with, you just have to listen to them in your system to see how they sound.
Had some 8 gauge coax from Belden that I used for short speaker cables and they sounded pretty good. For DIYers playing with inexpensive cables can be fun. Going through the Belden catalog I try to find low capacitance per foot, stranded, and polyproplene or teflon insulation, then tried different topologies and see what you get sonically.
I was thinking only of the cable itself when I posted, but fwiw the connectors for cat8 do seem improved. There are some fairly basic metal shielded ones, but also some quite impressive heavy duty types too with quite good mechanisms to clamp the shield etc.
Not sure I'd want to use them for audio, though. People could misguidedly plug network and IT equipment into amps etc.
Not sure I'd want to use them for audio, though. People could misguidedly plug network and IT equipment into amps etc.