The best part of all is this (http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm):
Pear Cables Wrote: > > > Finest Materials > > The ANJOU Speaker Cable utilizes the *finest materials* to maximize > sonic performance and provide years of stable operation. Teflon, air, > cotton, and fully annealed 99.999% pure oxygen free Copper are the 4 > fundamental materials utilized in the cable. 32 individually insulated > solid conductors resulting in a net 10 AWG cable are precisely > manufactured to all have the exact same length per unit of finished > cable. Solid Teflon, *foamed Teflon*, Teflon air tubes, air, and cotton > combine to minimize dielectric absorption while still providing superb > mechanical integrity. and this (http://www.pearcable.com/sub_cable_design.htm#foamedteflon): Pear Cables Wrote: > > > FOAMED TEFLON® IS BAD! > > There are many ways to create a Teflon®/air insulation structure, and > Foamed Teflon® is one of the more common methods. Foamed Teflon® is > exactly what it sounds like; namely Teflon® that has air bubbles > injected into it. These air bubbles lower the overall dielectric > constant of the insulation. It is commonly used because the mixture of > air and Teflon® can essentially be treated as one material, making > fabrication processes simpler. One of the biggest problems with this > insulation technique is that the overall dielectric constant is > reduced, but the randomness of the bubbles creates a myriad of local > anomalies. Large air bubbles on the surface of conductors are > unpredictable and the associated dielectric constant variation causes a > variety of transmission problems. In fact, it is well known that this > phenomenon slows down data transfer in Ethernet cables. Foamed Teflon® > is never used in Pear Cable products and should not be used in any high > fidelity audio cables. What utter nincompoops. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902
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