I'll drink to that!
Science might be more boring than fantasy, but it's probably cheaper in the long run.
The biggest problem for anyone who makes a contentious claim is that the market is so saturated with so many snake oil salesmen that folk find it impossible to take any of it seriously.
Science might be more boring than fantasy, but it's probably cheaper in the long run.
The biggest problem for anyone who makes a contentious claim is that the market is so saturated with so many snake oil salesmen that folk find it impossible to take any of it seriously.
The snag with that is that requires both source and load impedances to be linear, so it adds unnecessary complications to domestic equipment. You can't have an impedance match to the cable for analogue audio anyway, so little point in trying.RayCtech said:
Then you better make sure that your source and load impedances are the same as your cable's impedance as well. Oh yeah, and the connector's impedance too.
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I thought that was only really important if you were sending signals over long distances like in communications, they apparently impedance match to reduce loss, or so i'm told.
I used to do PCB soldering and various assembly work for a small firm which made underwater cameras and video equipment for sending pictures ashore from fish farm sites. We used very high frequency (microwave) digital transmitters and receivers, impedance matching issues plagued us along with intermittent interference problems. Between the 20 to 40 meters of under water cable and all the components involved it was not easy to sort out some of these problems.
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No, it isn't, really. Learning how the universe ticks is amazingly fun. So is applying that knowledge to practical problems and seeing how well it works.
Reality is weirder and more beautifully structured than any conceivable fantasy. And yes, probably cheaper. 😀
Do you have any idea how quickly tarnish layers a few atoms thick form?
New cables will definitely have tarnish.
The surface tarnish is unlikely to affect skin effect as the skin depth at audio frequencies is usually greater than the wire radius. This does mean that silver braid is a bad idea.
I like to see "gas tight" contacts in small signal electronics. This means a contact with enough pressure to wipe away tarnish layers and then exclude gases and almost make a cold weld. This sort of contact has a very short cycle life
I just wasted the time it took to read this The Audio Society of Minnesota Conducts Cable Comparison Tests | Stereophile.com
Even if they made a large difference, I could think of a quite a few things I would prefer to spend eight thousand dollars on, if I had it to throw away!
Even if they made a large difference, I could think of a quite a few things I would prefer to spend eight thousand dollars on, if I had it to throw away!
"We use Kapton in our Classic series and Royal Signature series cables. Kapton is a more stable insulator than most other insulation materials (including Teflon) and it has excellent electrical and mechanical properties. Kapton has a very high melting point (400°Celsius) and is extremely durable. As a result, the double insulation layer can be very thin allowing twisting the conductors in a near perfect symmetry and angle, which results in very low inductance and excellent EMI and RFI rejection."
From Siltech's website🙂
Silver sounds brighter?
From Siltech website:
"The purity of the metal created the sweet and detailed sound of original Siltech's."
(For native English that might mean the same?, for me brighter referres to sunglases and in sound to listening fatigue.)
BTW the brightest sounding interconnects I listened to early 90's were PCOCC copper (Audio Technica)
From Siltech's website🙂
Silver sounds brighter?
From Siltech website:
"The purity of the metal created the sweet and detailed sound of original Siltech's."
(For native English that might mean the same?, for me brighter referres to sunglases and in sound to listening fatigue.)
BTW the brightest sounding interconnects I listened to early 90's were PCOCC copper (Audio Technica)
The strange thing about these claims of very large crystals and cryo treatments in the bulk wire is that nobody claims any strange behaviour of ordinary copper or silver wire at RF frequencies, where any distortions are easy to measure. Iron/steel wire does have issues, but nobody uses that for audio.
I wouldn't bet on anything. Although in the following instance I note there was no commentary describing: (a) how long the output power transistors lasted running into a shorted output caused by twisting the hangers together (b) why and how the steel hangers were soldered to the amp and abx box connectors (c) precisely how only four coat hangers could be turned into a a pair of 2 metre long speaker cables.
From the audioholics forum 06/24/04:
Sounds rather like an objectivist's version of the 'when I made the xxxxx miracle change, my wife who takes absolutely no interest in audio, and was sitting in an adjacent room asked me what I had done to the system to make it sound so much better' anecdote.
Don't know about the other stuff, but coathangers are generally coated with a very tough enamel, so they're unlikely to short.
It's great being an insomniac. I just whipped out the multi and tested three: all conductive. The ones you have in the states are probably different.
I hate the bloody things.
I hate the bloody things.
Its got to be the "Kitchen" not just any adjacent room for the magic to work😀
Its like a 1950s Pathe documentary, the doting wife preparing lunch in the kitchen as the dedicated Audiophile, pipe in hand ponders over the next tweak to his system. Marital bliss....🙂
I also also seem to recall that a series of flying ducks festooned across the wall was a favourite form of acoustic treatment....
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Only in a room with beige wood chip wallpaper with orange carpet and brown suite.
A distraction was essential 😱
Beige is such an ugly word.
Magnolia sounds so much better and the orange carpet should most definitely be patterned ie orange and brown.
Magnolia sounds so much better and the orange carpet should most definitely be patterned ie orange and brown.
That's pretty much a picture of my life. 1950s house and mid-century decor. Doting wife making lunch; me with the pipe, slippers, glass of port, giant speakers - just replace the dog with a cat. And the doting wife makes me go outside to smoke the pipe, these days. 🙄
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