I suppose without the oxygen, the copper wire won't
rust or develop that green patina, so the sound
quality won't degrade !
Also, due to skin effect at audio frequencies, the
more strands, the better.
And with some amplifiers that have a really high input
impedance, the lower capacitance cable will have less
high-frequency roll-off due to the better match
between the cable and amp input.
Too bad this isn't the first day of April ! Actually,
when I decided to reply, I had only read Skipp's text;
now that I go further, it seems to be even more
on-topic !
Bob M.
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--- skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My circa early 80's audio friend Rick collected a
> series of
> audiophile articles about how braided strands of
> larger solid
> enamel coated wire is better for audio. He set about
> installing
> replacement hand-made cables on his stereo system
> and measuring
> the results, which were actually better than the
> fine-wire leads
> he started out with. But he had to use some very
> high end
> audio gear to measure the difference and I couldn't
> tell much
> of a sonic difference.
>
> A Class-A Krell and Threshold type amplifier
> generates more in-
> room heat than usable audio. I'm more concerned
> about the 300
> watt space heater built into the amplifier operation
> vs distortion
> values less than 1% the average human hear can't
> even hear.
>
> cheers,
> s.
>
>
> > > 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
>
> > "Jesse Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hahaha ahhhh audiophiles... can sell them
> anything.... no
> > need for real physics, just tell them that this
> device will
> > make things sound better, back it up with a BS
> statment that
> > doesn't apply, and charge them 100 bux.
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