[oldmate]

It lights the Green LED.

Oops, I meant to say that's all it does. Unless of course it's job is to burn in the cable.

 

[Exacoustatowner]

Oops, I meant to say that's all it does. Unless of course it's job is to burn in the cable.

Now I'm laughing....

 

[cjl]

   
Ironically, HDMI interfaces are inherently nonlinear and work better the more nonlinear they are.

Ironically, that's not an HDMI cable.

 

[arnyk]

  Ironically, that's not an HDMI cable.

But it is a USB cable, and like HDMI cables, they work just swell if they are nonlinear,

 

[Steve Eddy]

But it is a USB cable, and like HDMI cables, they work just swell if they are nonlinear,

What exactly is the nonlinearity in either a USB or HDMI cable?

se

 

[arnyk]

What exactly is the nonlinearity in either a USB or HDMI cable?

se

 
Normally, being plain old copper wires, they are highly linear.
 
The issue of cable linearity is yet another high end cable rabbit hole.

 

[Steve Eddy]

Normally, being plain old copper wires, they are highly linear.

The issue of cable linearity is yet another high end cable rabbit hole.

You're the one who has been talking about nonlinearity via a vis USB and HDMI cables.

se

 

[arnyk]

You're the one who has been talking about nonlinearity via a vis USB and HDMI cables.

se

 
Only because it was brought up in this post:
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/771267/cable-burn-in-with-regard-to-audio-directionality/105#post_11705368

 

[Steve Eddy]

Only because it was brought up in this post:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/771267/cable-burn-in-with-regard-to-audio-directionality/105#post_11705368

Ah, ok.

Funny, because even RG-174 with its copper clad steel center conductor can't manage to raise the level of distortion above the AP System 2 Cascade's residual distortion.

se

 

[arnyk]

Ah, ok.

Funny, because even RG-174 with its copper clad steel center conductor can't manage to raise the level of distortion above the AP System 2 Cascade's residual distortion.

se

 
Right, pure iron and most if not all steel alloys are as linear conductors as anything  (including copper and pure silver) as long as there is a good mechanical and electrical connection.
 
There is a very common cable construction type known as Copperweld that is widely used for antenna wiring, cable systems, and other permanent installations.. It's copper-clad steel wire. It is as linear  as anything  (again including copper and pure silver), again as long as there is a good mechanical and electrical connection.

 

[Steve Eddy]

Right, pure iron and most if not all steel alloys are as linear conductors as anything  (including copper and pure silver) as long as there is a good mechanical and electrical connection.

There is a very common cable construction type known as Copperweld that is widely used for antenna wiring, cable systems, and other permanent installations.. It's copper-clad steel wire. It is as linear  as anything  (again including copper and pure silver), again as long as there is a good mechanical and electrical connection.

Well, ferromagnetic materials do suffer from magnetic hysteresis and therefore possess some inherent amount of nonlinearity. Just that it's not at a level that anyone should worry about. At least not in cable form. Transformer lams are another matter.

se

 

[Exacoustatowner]

Well, ferromagnetic materials do suffer from magnetic hysteresis and therefore possess some inherent amount of nonlinearity. Just that it's not at a level that anyone should worry about. At least not in cable form. Transformer lams are another matter.

se

Steve, stop it with your "reality based science!" You are providing a foothold for some pseudoscientific hysteria regarding hysteresis. "Brand X Magic cables has it's magnetic dipoles always aligned in the same way due to the patented electromagnets attached to the cables- the green LED tells you it's working." Well known EE and audio engineer Steve Eddy endorses Magic X cables " 
" Well, ferromagnetic materials do suffer from magnetic hysteresis and therefore possess some inherent amount of nonlinearity…." Brand X cables use this to align the dipoles providing a uniform smoothness and the richest chocolate bass you've ever heard."

 

[Steve Eddy]

Steve, stop it with your "reality based science!" You are providing a foothold for some pseudoscientific hysteria regarding hysteresis. "Brand X Magic cables has it's magnetic dipoles always aligned in the same way due to the patented electromagnets attached to the cables- the green LED tells you it's working." Well known EE and audio engineer Steve Eddy endorses Magic X cables " 
" Well, ferromagnetic materials do suffer from magnetic hysteresis and therefore possess some inherent amount of nonlinearity…." Brand X cables use this to align the dipoles providing a uniform smoothness and the richest chocolate bass you've ever heard."

Those folks have already "been there, done that."

se

 

[Exacoustatowner]

Those folks have already "been there, done that."

se

Steve,someone turned your words into an endorsement for nonsense? Dang. Please tell me that no one is selling cables with magnets attached  to align the magnetic dipoles-that would be absurd! 

 

[Steve Eddy]

Steve,someone turned your words into an endorsement for nonsense? Dang. Please tell me that no one is selling cables with magnets attached  to align the magnetic dipoles-that would be absurd! 
:blink:

There have been a couple companies selling cables with magnets attached to them. Can't name them off the top of my head, but this nonsense has been going on for years.

se