had a look at Allan Wrights site and some bits of "the supercables cookbook", looks like an entertaining read, but at 35 Euros I'll give it a miss. Does look (form excerpts etc) like it bows more to Audiophile Physics than Newtonian Physics.
I think I prefer Maxwellian physics for audio, although I will allow Sir Isaac to comment on loudpeakers. Either are preferable to audiophile 'physics'!
Yes forgot Maxwell is perhaps more appropriate, but Newton poked bits of wood in his eyes to distort his vision, similar to the effect some proclamations on here have on my vision.
I believe you can study Audiophile Physics at the Unseen University these days.
I believe you can study Audiophile Physics at the Unseen University these days.
Surely you mean Heaviside. 😀
Several friends and I have just read a lovely biography, "Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age," and were all amazed at how much the modern approach EM theory started right there- Maxwell's actual treatment is almost unrecognizable to modern physicists.
Yes, Heaviside is responsible for the form in which we see Maxwell's equations. Very clever chap, but a bit strange. I think I read that biography too, about 10 years ago. I was using Heaviside operational calculus to solve the equations for Class E. I found this easier than using Laplace, as I had never seen how to do simultaneous Laplace - as a physicist rather than EE we didn't do much Laplace. Like Laplace, it turns a differential equation into an algebraic problem.
More than a bit, I would say. My favorite summation from a friend of mine: "...although there’s much to admire, there’s not much to like."
Yes, his work has more influence on my job than any other🙂
All the high speed digital layout courses I have attended start with some sort of homage to Heaviside, for twisted pairs and much more we have him to thank.
But is it relevant for todays high end audio reproduction😀, wasn't it 1876 when he published his telegraphers equations.
All the high speed digital layout courses I have attended start with some sort of homage to Heaviside, for twisted pairs and much more we have him to thank.
But is it relevant for todays high end audio reproduction😀, wasn't it 1876 when he published his telegraphers equations.
Getting back to the original question; it is interesting to note that one ultra high end ($$$$$$$) Japanese tube amp manufacturer who selects all his components by ear prefers basic switchcraft nickel plated RCA sockets to any higher priced alternative and uses them in all his concoctions.
Maybe his amps have too much gain and he needs these to attenuate the signal?
Maybe times are so hard at the stratospheric end of the market that he can't afford to specify anything more upmarket ?
Maybe his amps have too much gain and he needs these to attenuate the signal?
Maybe times are so hard at the stratospheric end of the market that he can't afford to specify anything more upmarket ?
Sy, you are definitely going soft in your dotage - I expected nothing less than a full Hawkesford public execution. 😀
These where a fad a few years back. Don't know if the Japanese fellow started it, or just went along. I still have a few. Just basic RCA connectors, nothing fancy. They work.
Any RCA which noticeably attenuates a signal is faulty. At the very least it needs cleaning.mach1 said:
Last time I checked I found that nickel, brass etc. are good conductors so OK for audio connectors. Connector metals are chosen for their physical and chemical properties. Mercury is too soft at room temperature, and iron corrodes too quickly.
Measurements?
I guess all you measurements guys selected your loudspeakers from technical data sheets, no doubt your entire audio system, do you even bother to switch it on? Or do you just read the data sheets. Very sad.
Time after time cables, connectors and even amplifiers are discussed with the same old arguments, same old drivel, it can't make a difference so why should I even listen 🙁
Que flames from the deaf and the dumb 😛
I guess all you measurements guys selected your loudspeakers from technical data sheets, no doubt your entire audio system, do you even bother to switch it on? Or do you just read the data sheets. Very sad.
Time after time cables, connectors and even amplifiers are discussed with the same old arguments, same old drivel, it can't make a difference so why should I even listen 🙁
Que flames from the deaf and the dumb 😛
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