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Again, the irony of ironies is that the folks who feign shock and awe are the same ones who claim that power cables make no difference anyway. Yet they complain that there aren't diamonds and rubies inside to justify the cost, when absolutely nothing inside would justify the cost in their eyes.
If you're referring to me, you aren't reading what I'm writing. So far, we've had a misstatement of what sort of connectors were used, an admission that the giveaway cables were not up to the standards of the retail ones, and avoidance of the question of whether the product is UL listed. The issue here is business standards, not performance. I think all of us knows how this jerry rigged contraption would perform.
You want to know what real BS marketing is? Over priced market hyped pieces slapped together in a cable design that makes no since what so ever. A cable that has no thought or true understanding to it, but a just a bunch of recognizable brand names..
Do you really want to know what a hospital grade cable is? It's cable that has its male nickel plated so when they wash the walls, solution won't drip and corrode the terminates.
Now how conductive is nickel?
Not as conductive as copper but it also doesn't corrode like copper and I will be damned if I am paying money for something that is supposed to improve SQ and have to sand it to keeps its conductivity at prime levels.
So are your cables UL listed? We still have no answer.
Doesn't UL only certify up to 10 gauge? If so you need to ask yourself why. and what is UL really...
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Originally Posted by gritzcolin
Not as conductive as copper but it also doesn't corrode like copper and I will be damned if I am paying money for something that is supposed to improve SQ and have to sand it to keeps its conductivity at prime levels.
You can't get anything but the most basic of cords for $150.
You can get a basic power cord for $4 and it will sound exactly like any other power cord. I could go out and review the sound of every pebble in my yard, and decide which kind I thought sounded best, but it wouldn't make Brilliant Pebbles anything more than sucker bait.
Well, according to this, the resistivity of pure nickel is somewhat less three times that of pure gold; 6.842E-08 Ohm/m compared to 2.463E-08 Ohm/m. Of course, the actual materials used to plate connectors in the real world are definitely not going to be pure metals, but I think these provide a decent comparison. It doesn't look good for nickel, that's for sure...
But, consider this: the thickness of these platings is likely going to be on the order of microns. That's one-millionth of a meter. The change in resistivity of the plating is going to have a pretty minimal effect on the overall resistance of the cable.
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