A fresh approach to cable analysis

This makes as much sense as inspecting various lasagna’s to determine how they taste and which one you like best. Sure some of the lesser quality ones would be easy to determine, but many may appear to be very similar and yet taste very different. Make sure you don’t smell them as you cut them open, that smell would be subjective, might cause bias, and of course smell could not be related to how it tastes, right? Flat earthers might say all lasagna’s are the same. For the rest of us, why not just taste them, it is easier. After cooking or "break in" of course. 

Secondly, many manufacturers leave no secrets as to how they are made, and with what "ingredients" so why buy then butcher them for no reason? If the construction details makes someone feel better about which cable they buy, great, but all that matters to me is how it sounds in my system, based on my budget. 

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@toddfan I recently opened up a cable I had purchase……When I raised this with the manufacturer,….

Statistics require an ample sample size to determine properties of the population as a whole. Seems you are only using a sample of 1 to make global conclusions

@toddfan ….military, medicine, aerospace (NASA),…

Maybe look at Masterbuilt Cables - designed as a side job by US government superconductor scientists (no it’s not a supercomputer, it’s the knowledge base). Many WBF scientists and engineers intensively debated on their website claims, until one of the superconductor scientists explained what it meant - the discussion was way over my head. I concluded scientists and engineering general knowledge is minimal compared to professionals working directly is a specific field.

I don’t get negatively get caught up in cable price or marketing hype - no control so waste of time in resentment. I don’t look at absolutes either. I look for relative performance aka comparing one brand/model to another.

If many reviews get a certain result, chances are I will also - but nothing is guaranteed AND I may not subjectively like the change. 

@mclinnguy I couldn't have said it any better.

I choose my cables based on color. 

@gs5556  Something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5kU5SeaSQs

Thanks for posting the Mr. Carlson video! I had seen that and wish more people here at the ‘Gon would watch it. It is very thought provoking and he has no ax to grind. It really deserves  its own thread! He is just talking straight electrical properties of a very inexpensive but well shielded category of wire. I plan to make some interconnects from the roll I have in my basement that used to cary the TV signal down from my antenna to the tv. His argument makes a lot of sense. Imagine how weak that video signal was compared to mere audio coming straight from a preamp? 

@goodlistening64  I was going to engage but you are a bit rude, so I won’t.

@mclinnguy  Agreed some manufacturers offer more specifics than others but wouldn’t you at least be curious to see if the pretty pictures accurately reflected what’s inside? 

As others have mentioned so far cable dissection would not answer all questions and it would not definitively tell you what you might expect to hear from a given cable. BUT it would peel back several layers of the onion and reveal obvious frauds. It would also reveal similarities or dissimilarities in construction that might align with listening experiences and thus make possible some generalizations about how the physical configuration of cable along with it’s measurable electrical properties line  up with peoples listening experiences.