Willakan
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Gotta love Bertrand Russell...
Hi glowtape. Glad you found us. Does Eupen sell cable to 'audiophile companies' who then dress it up and sell it on for big mark ups with psuedoscietific marketing? Or do you have any evidence of a link bteween how a cable is made and better sound quality?
I'm more on the manufacturing side of the cables themselves. I'm not that fluent in electronics. Nor do I know details about customers, but from what's been told, there's been product sourced by at least one premium cable company.
My main gripes with audiophiles and their cables is all the marketing ******** they're sucked in with. If it were up to Monster cable, you'd believe their products are assembled atom by atom at nano-level. Alone the process of drawing large gauge raw copper wire (half an inch thick) down to the thin strand copper braids you'll find in your usual speaker and power cables is pretty interesting. All the stretching and bending forces applied (because drawing copper is all about pulling and bending things to make them thinner and longer) to get to the end result doesn't leave any place for the advertised tight tolerances or copper purity "high end" cable sellers are advertising for. Nor would a manufacturing company do any special alloys or coating for whatever reason. While theoretically doable, all the manufacturing changes to make and test custom processes work are too expensive to be worth done, especially since we're talking about tiny runs of a few thousand meters per year only (Monster cables don't sell like hot cakes). "Silver-coated" wires are my favorite, it's most of the times just tin being sold as something else. And insulations are usually cheap PVC or PE (stiffer ones) or cheap rubber (really flexible ones), and they don't have any signal affecting properties apart from preventing a short circuit (you know, insulating...)
Premium cable companies order bog standard products and gift-wrap it. Manufacturing isn't going to get bent out of shape for special wishes, if we're talking about a few thousand meters only. And if, it'll be really expensive. Cutting the profit line expensive.
Some of the cables I have seen cut open (for example Cardas) appear to be made specifically for Cardas.
So claims of the likes of very high purity copper are possible dubious?