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Originally posted by jude
So....ummm....like.....does that mean you didn't like my review?
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Well, I find hard to believe that just a cable change could make such a difference, but I'm convinced that you really believe it, so, no blame on you. What I feel really disgusting is the interview to George Cardas, in my opinion this man has no sense of shame with all the things he says, he's just a charlatan talking BS and he knows it and makes profit of it.
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So, Ricky, according to the IP addresses, it appears you're the first poster (KikeG) in that Usenet thread you're pointing us to.
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You're right, even my e-mail address is the same.
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probably a Best City or Circuit Buy salesman
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Ummm, that's wrong. First year high school chemistry or physics can explain why different cables would lose more signal than others.
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Not at such lenghts of cables and such frequencies and amplitudes of signals.
Me and many of the posters at the rec.audio.tech newsgroup are audio/electric engineers by studies and profession. I actually work as a programmer, but some of the newsgroup repliers are respected audio professionals, some with many years of experience in this area. Even if you are not one of these, but have a bit of knowledge and common sense, will realize that some claims are absurd.
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You know, if Jude's using words that are too long for you to understand, you could always send him an e-mail asking him to explain them for you in simpler terms.
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What I'd like to know is what are the real scientifical basis that explain the advantages of these cables, what makes them superior to a normal cable. The properties of a cable are defined by basic scientific terms: resistance, capacitance, inductance, and interference pickup. There's no skin effect at audio frecuencies, there's no inductance at audio frecuencies, there are no resonances in cables (I guess he meant stationary waves, as talking about resonance in a cable is just absurd). Capacitance is negigible at such frecuencies and short lengths. Any decent shielded cable has good noise rejection for audio purposes at home environments, and the best shielding is not very difficult to achieve. There's no distortion on cables. If these cables do something to the signal, it can only be degrading it, as any non-crap cable won't do anything to the signal. Just ask some qualifyed engineer os physicist, and he'll tell you the same.
It can also be easily proved on a laboratory, measuring and analyzing the signal that enters in the cable and the signal at the other side of the cable. This can be done even at your home, if you have a good sound card (I'm not talking about Creative Crap cards) and suitable software.
Yes, they sound different to you, that's true, but that has an explanation. Have you ever heard about placebo effect? One of the posters at these audio newsgroups, has showed in practice (going to their homes) by means of serious blind tests, to many audiophiles, that all the differences they heard were on their heads. It is a curious effect how, when the listener doesn't know what cable he's listening to, is incapable of telling a regular cheap cable from a megabuck one.
There are lots of snake oil in consumer audio. Special power cords are even more absurd than expensive cables. How can the power that goes to your wallplug through meters of cheap unshielded electric cable, be improved at any way by a small piece of thick shielded cable at its ending?
About the Google newsgroup thread, you can also participate in it if you want. There is also a moderated audio related newsgroup, rec.audio.high-end. If you read and/or participate in these and other audio related newsgroups, you'll learn many things. I do.