Archimago wrote: > Doesn't this depend on who and where you ask? Archimago wrote: > Doesn't this depend on who and where you ask? Do you think the market > has actually spoken in favour of high-end snake oil? >
It also matters: "When" Snake oil audio cables entered the audio marketplace about the same time as we developed the first ABX Comparator - late 1970s. The first such product that showed up on my personal radar was Polk Cobra speaker wire: 18353 Another contemporaneous product was "Fulton Gold" 18354 The Fulton product was just an example of the dumbed down Welding cable school of speaker cable design. If 12 gauge sounds good, then 4 gauge must sound 3 times better? The Polk Cobra wire as actually both electrically different and also a dangerous product that could lead to the failure of associated gear, especially amplifiers. It was an attempt to make a cable for 8 ohm speakers that actually had a characteristic impedance in the same range. This carries with it the implication of a lot of inter-conductor capacitance due to the interwoven strands. Unfortunately, a lot of SS power amps of the day (it was still the early days of SS) are near the edge of their stability margins with high capacitance speaker cable. Not only that but flexing would cause the old-tech enamel insulation fail and short the amplifiers out. It was and still is hard to take these products seriously if you are well-informed technically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
