As someone who works at frequencies in the Gigahertz I have a hard time believing cables can make a difference way down in the audio range - except for two things. One is, as mentioned, there can be a mismatch between components. It is not exactly a field where every company conforms to standards. Though at those low frequencies it would have to be quite a mismatch, except that the audio frequency range is some 10 octaves wide.
That is a very wide range to simultaneously handle over a single path. I work with equipment that covers 10 octaves in the microwave range. It costs well over $100 dollars and can handle only a narrow range of frequencies simultaneously. And it requires extensive calibration every time it is used. 10 octaves is huge. I saw a website once where the DIYer suggested a simple LR tweek to bring "cheap" cables up to snuff. Actually, he didn't think cables made a difference but suggested it just to assure a good match. Someone could probably design a simple adjustable LCR box that would match any amp to any speaker. Then the cables could just be what they should be, as transparent as possible. The hard part would be adjusting it. It is not uncommon to have adjustable capacitance on the input to a phono preamp. Just an idea. -- regalma1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ regalma1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32454 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
