bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
How fast does misinformation travel? It seems to defy physics sometimes!
How fast does misinformation travel? It seems to defy physics sometimes!
However, what travels in the cable is electrical and travels near the speed of light. Once it leaves the headphone/loudspeakers that's when the story changes. Your scenario is incorrect as it applies to cables.
Even lamp (brown zip) cord will work, then again you did say that, "just about anything goes."......
-More like at 60-70% of the speed of light in most practical cables, but I am splitting hairs here, a favourite pastime of mine. You are right; he's wrong. (And I love reading these cable threads - being an MSc who majored in RF engineering and an avid ham radio operator, I've done my fair share of both crunching the numbers on, building and testing transmission lines (fancy word for 'cable').
Short version: At baseband audio, there's no magic; just about anything goes.
Even lamp (brown zip) cord will work, then again you did say that, "just about anything goes." I'm an EE and find a lot of the audio threads very amusing. I specialized in audio, instrumentation, process control and microprocessor/digital.
I dabbled in RF, me and a buddy did some bad things with a spark gap when we were 12, in a densly populated urban area, NYC. Lets just say that Radio and TV reception was compromised when we were messing around.
How fast does misinformation travel? It seems to defy physics sometimes!
When it comes to our friend it defies physics and travels faster than the speed of light. He cheats and uses a wormhole.
It is all WELL WITHIN AUDIBLE RANGE - if you know what to look for.
I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt. I know many audiophiles who have bought expensive cables and returned them, buy new things and don't update their profiles, etc. I've also auditioned lots of speaker equipment I can't remember the exact names of, and don't list.
Also, to suggest that you know more than a supposed 4x PhD I think is a bit presumptuous, though well intended. Let's all be careful in assuming backgrounds.
It seems silly to have to ask, but what do you define as being within audible range?
That is a start - giving the benefit of a doubt. Most of the rest have categorically taken the stand "negate whatever he says".
I did NOT say that I know more than quadruple PhDs - but there ARE PhDs that do not know hot side of the soldering iron from the cold. There is no more practical thing than a good theory - yet totally removed from practice, it is equally worthless. Having played with audio for some 4 decades now on an uninterupted quest for better sound does give a great deal of practical experience - which no theory on its own can possibly provide.