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they are quite accurate and meaningful to me.
You could do us all a favor and translate those terms into actual quantities. At the very least, "Stressful" and "(not) Harmonic" are lacking in the glossary of terms, which is the bare minimum for a term to even begin to have any sort of actual meaning when describing an analog or digitized waveform.
physical mechanism in a cable?! wow, way to go Heinstein.
Yes. If you need an introduction, wikipedia has a page here: Physical Sciences. You might be particularly interested in the 2nd- and 3rd-to-last bullet points that cover electricity&magnatism and sound.
cable's job is to transmit signals - that's it!
Exactly, I don't know how this concept seems to get so unnecessarily confused with the kinds of things that actually are on the frontier of human knowledge and engineering, for example, things like quantum computing, the Higgs boson, turbulence, or the Riemann Hypothesis.
What Audio Rainer was perhaps alluding is that your science bible may not covering the entire story on metal conductivity, audio signal, and everything else involved in the matter. it's reasonable.
But it's not reasonable! Just because you guys assert that you don't understand physical mechanism involved in the transmission of an electrical signal along a wire doesn't mean that there aren't people who do understand these concepts. The principles for understanding all the basics of audio, from digital signal theory to the material science of semiconductor materials are taught in undergraduate level classes. The current body of knowledge says that one should not expect copper speaker wire versus silver plated copper speaker wire to cause a detectable difference in the transmitted audio signal. It is unreasonable. Just because folks think they hear a difference in sighted listening, it does not mean that there is an actual physical difference in the sound reproduction.
There are free course materials from a somewhat well known university available here. LINK TO FREE EDUCATION. All of the fundamentals for understanding the process of sound reproduction can be found there. One just needs to give the effort to learn them. I understand that reading up on the details is not for everyone, but lack of motivation does not make one's assertions automatically valid.
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