Minimal incentive to pay for expensive cables to dissect then becoming worthless
A fresh approach to cable analysis
Here’s an interesting idea that I wish someone would do. Start a YouTube channel in which you take full range of power cords, interconnects, and speaker wire ranging from cheap to top-of-the-line and carefully dissect them and expose how they are constructed and with what. In the past, we have been through all the arguments about measurements and subjective evaluation, and that gets us nowhere. I think, looking at the physical construction of these chords, which I assume almost no one ever does, especially on the more expensive ones, would produce some surprising results and really be hard to argue with. I’m sure manufacturers would hate this idea, but I don’t think there’s any way legally that they could challenge it.
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@bruce19 If you cut open a cable how would you know what you're looking at?Who knows what kind of copper is used or if it's been 'cryogeniclly treated or not. It could be anything. Without test equiptment you don't know the resistance, inductance, capacitance or how effective the shielding is which would be WAY more producive than cutting it open and simply looking at it.
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The first company to market "audiophile" cables was Disc Washer with their Gold Ens ($15/meter) in 1976. I bought some and happily used them for a few years. Around that time I was buying my first lomc cartridge and in need of an SUT. I decided on Mitch Cotter's Verion transformer. He also was making/selling RCA interconnects - Verion Tri-Axials ($30/meter). I bought several pairs and continued to use them until 2015 when I had to move. They worked fine with all my components. I never felt I was missing anything! I still have the Verions buried somewhere in storage. IMO interconnects have ZERO affect on sound quality! |
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