> One can see there becomes a point where the coax will not
> look like coax at low frequencies or atleast have a
> characteristic impedance of something other than it normal value.
Most of this is true (although I don't know what you mean by "coax will not
look like coax"), and I already acknowledged in a previous post that at
sufficiently low frequencies and sufficiently short cable lengths (in terms
of a fraction of a wavelength) that you may measure effects that seem to
conflict with what you would expect to happen at higher frequencies and
longer cable lengths. That's not what we're arguing. Or at least that's
not what I'm arguing.
I specifically was addressing your statement that all coax has a
low-frequency cutoff, which it does NOT. Will a transmission line behave
identically at all frequencies? Of course not, that's not new news, there
are many things that affect a cable's behavior as frequency is varied.
To put this to bed once and for all, can we at least agree that coax does
not have a low-frequency cutoff? I'm sure there will be many audiophiles
that will be happy to hear that their gold-plated oxygen-free litz-wire
triple-shielded phono cables that they paid $100 for will continue to work
into the subaudible range if we can just acknowledge this fact and move on.
--- Jeff
