AudioQuest DBS Field

"DBS field prevents it by keeping molecules organized all the time. Also, polarization of molecules is probably stronger with higher voltage"

aw come on!

Kijanki I'm making no claims what so ever about Audioquest cables and their relative worth. Merely that the jargon gets good sometimes. I read the monograph you referenced and yes that is a pretty good one on caps not conductors. Go to another outfit like Synergistic and they will go on and on about how megavoltages from a vandergraph generator make the cable better. As these two approaches are completely opposite one must be incorrect. Yet both seem to be decent cables ergo it is likely that the sciency bits are more marketing. I'm not sure about cables but telling me that cable X will align the quantum flux is not helping. In this case extrapolating capacitor behavior on to conducting cables seems dangerous.

I need to keep my mouth shut I guess. either way I do hope everyone finds success with these however they work.

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OK I see what you mean Kijanki. Have to have a think on this one. One reason I'm leary is the EMF vectors completely different and much of the dipole aspect makes less or no sense.

to me the inductance is more relevant but..........

nice discussion.

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been thinking about this and dug up some reference materials. I am thinking that Simply_q is kind of correct in that the physical changes to the dielectric, while they are real effects, I think even in plastics, are not likely to occur in the regime we use. Maybe with a few hundred kHz and more watts but unless I am completely misunderstanding the equations (always possible!) this sort of thing should not be happening on a speaker cable. Mind I'm not commenting on the product in question, just the "why it works" end of things. I'm not sure. Much of the discussion that I've seen is utilizing the equations for relaxation on systems subject to external E&M fields. Seems like a misuse of concept but.....

so in this case the right question (or maybe next question) to ask is what is the dipole creation and dissolution time in this sort of material and how does that compare to speaker signal timings? I suspect that we are talking 10-12 ish seconds or something silly fast like that but I've no idea.

I suspect that none of us are willing to spend too much more time on this anyway. I'm still curious but gotta make the donuts eh?

Kijanki what I was getting at (maybe incorrectly) is that the dissolution or relaxation of the temporary dipole for dielectric materials should be fairly fast given the equations I've seen. Now to be clear as this is not my field of expertise I am not completely sure I am using the correct equation for our physical layout and use regime. I'm with you on leaving it to others. I'll trust my ears. So far I've not heard much difference with most things but that is far from exhaustive and I've very, perhaps too aware, of the placebo effect.