arnyk wrote: > It also matters: "When" > > Snake oil audio cables entered the audio marketplace about the same time > as we developed the first ABX Comparator - late 1970s. > > The first such product that showed up on my personal radar was Polk > Cobra speaker wire: > > 18356 > > Another contemporaneous product was "Fulton Gold" > > 18357 > > The Fulton product was just an example of the dumbed down Welding Cable > school of speaker cable design. If 12 gauge sounds good, then 4 gauge > must sound 3 times better? > > The Polk Cobra wire as actually both electrically different and also a > dangerous product that could lead to the failure of associated gear, > especially amplifiers. > > It was an attempt to make a cable for 8 ohm speakers that actually had a > characteristic impedance in the same range. This carries with it the > implication of a lot of inter-conductor capacitance due to the > interwoven strands. Unfortunately, a lot of SS power amps of the day (it > was still the early days of SS) are near the edge of their stability > margins with high capacitance speaker cable. Not only that but flexing > would cause the old-tech enamel insulation fail and short the amplifiers > out. > > It was and still is hard to take these products seriously if you are > well-informed technically.
Nics pix Arny. I remember reading about these Polk cables! Still "legendary" in some circles... Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
