Interconnect cables! Lies and myths!

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I wouldn't venture a guess; except that resistive (impedance) discontinuities induce reflections. RF connections, once made, are generally left alone... assuming good torque... metallic deformation, and a "gas tight" connection... silver would probably be good.
 
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Sy, yes, the slim QED "Mautner Memorial Lecture" transcript book. And, as a lecture transcript, let alone as a book, it's only barely accessible.

You might extend the Feynman example, and your comment, along these lines: science begins with an observation (reflectivity) and moves, however slowly, from lesser to fuller understanding (the observation implies some minimum level of understanding, however tacit). Observation, in this regard, perhaps almost always runs ahead of understanding. Just as it does in audio. Hence to say an observation holds little or no merit unless backed by some measurement or theory or whatever (by "fuller understanding") is, at what seems to me a deep level, to reject the scientific method.

Here come the flames. Jan?
 
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SY said:


I don't understand this statement. What is an observation in physical science other than measurement?
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Methinks modern physical science developed from earlier curiosities that preceded modern scientific apparati? I'm forced to admit that the science of audio, and perhaps because our survival doesn't depend on it, is very much in a rudimentary state of scientific understanding.

But to cast an answer toward your question on a deeper level, if you measure something for which there currently exists no popularly accepted theory (ie, non-locality), "what" have you measured? Seems to me the answer is, we don't know such that the "measurement" is but an observation lacking explanation.
 
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Anatech,

You're right.

The wiping effect, and the smudging of molecules into each other, something gold is good at, the effect has limited value. Hook it up and LEAVE it there.

Maybe silver has an edge because the oxides are much less dense than the pure metal... the reason why you take a feature-less piece of silver... clean it and reveal much detail. I suspect the volume of silver oxides surrounds and protects the fundamental connection... a gas mask of sorts.
 
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if you measure something for which there currently exists no popularly accepted theory (ie, non-locality), "what" have you measured? Seems to me the answer is, we don't know such that the "measurement" is but an observation lacking explanation.
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But it IS a measurement, and it's every experimental scientist's wet dream. Take, for example, Becquerel. We had no ideas or theories about radioactivity, but his "observation" or "measurement" or whatever led to a systematic understanding of radioactive decay. But the point is that, though not understood at the time, the "observation" was reliable, repeatable, and independently testable, unlike much/most/all of the voodoo in the tiny high-end niche of audio.
 
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Hi poobah,
Stop calling me names!!! I am brain damaged, don't you know. :clown:
I can't believe you actually accused me of conscious, directed thought! Now you've damaged my reputation for ever!:bawling:

Yup, seen you all over. And you sir, you think more than is healthy!😉

-Chris
 
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