Phil Leigh;151367 Wrote: > > Opaqueice, FWIW I'm with you on this one! The brain definitely burns > in...I doubt that copper does.
A speaker cable or interconnect has a specific DC resistance, capacitance and inductance. I dont think DC resistance changes. Looks like the capacitance can change. I guess the inductance also has to change during that time. This I think, reflects in the sound. This all depends upon the quality of insulation and winding geometry of the cable. You can argue that the changes in capacitance are hardly noticeable. But first I want to establish that theoretical possibilities exist. In my engg. school there was a high voltage laboratory where they test the insulators used in transmission towers for breakdown. What happens to an insulations' di-electric value when subjected to a low voltage for a period of time ? I dont think this has been studied systematically. Maybe the change is too small/negligible for most applications and was ignored. I was talking to a cable manufacturer's brother who joined the business after quitting software. He said, 'Oh man..this business is so weird, the interconnect will sound different when we change the number of twists'. In this context, I doubt hearing is a 'digital' phenomenon of yes/no or 1/0. It is surely like vision, but I dont see there are any standardized tests for this. -- SoftwireEngineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
