Skunk Wrote: > Even though he shuns cable > manufacturers for using science (pseudo or not) in marketing, he uses > none in discourse. >
I think if you look around on that site a little you'll find plenty of science. For example: http://tinyurl.com/p25ua tests some speakers cables for inductance, capacitance, etc., and some expensive cables do quite badly relative to inexpensive ones. I'm not an electrical engineer (I'm a physicist), but it seems to me to stand to reason that speaker cable should be very simple to design. If an amp outputs say 32 W to 8 ohm speakers, that's 2 amps of current (which is really quite a lot). At that level it's hard to imagine something like RF or 60 Hz noise interfering much with the signal (which I suppose is why speaker cable isn't usually shielded). As long as the cable impedence is low (easy with 12 or 14 gauge wire over short distances) and you don't have a large capacitance or inductance (which could be more affected by how you lay out the wires than the wires themselves), I don't see where a big effect would come from. Contrast that to RCA type interconnects, which I expect would be much more sensitive to noise (and in fact they are typically well shielded). All that said, I suppose nothing substitutes for a listening test, but at least buy from a place with a money-back policy... -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21750 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
