Review of the Labkable Pandora It is an outstanding cable, and quite beautiful I might add.
http://theheadphonelist.com/labkable-pandora/
http://theheadphonelist.com/labkable-pandora/
Review of the Labkable Pandora It is an outstanding cable, and quite beautiful I might add.
http://theheadphonelist.com/labkable-pandora/
Review of the Labkable Pandora It is an outstanding cable, and quite beautiful I might add.
http://theheadphonelist.com/labkable-pandora/
excellent review as always ,
great review.
ps : i just got whiplash twag v3 (8-con) , i need to do some more listening but it looks like this cable gave the kiss of life to my EE Athena (which sounded very mediocre with every other cable i tried)
I'm just gonna go ahead and selectively read this
Thanks buddy, how kind of you!
Nice man, please share a pic and some impressions of the cable. I think I'll also be getting a V3 at some point in a few weeks, though not the fancy 8-braid.
There was some good lively cable discussion in the Empire Ears forum until the fun police had to show up and shut it down (to be fair, it was OT), so hope that we can continue it here.
If I start with the premise that the sole purpose of a cable is to act as a conduit between input and speaker, and we want that signal path to be as clean/efficient as possible, don't we have to reach the conclusion that the best cable would only be made of the highest purity silver available, since its more conducive than copper and a lot more conducive than gold?
I'm trying to separate the science from the fluff with cables. I understand the value of aesthetics and the amount of hours in labor some of the higher quality ones take to create as reasons for extremely high prices, but am trying to wrap my head around if the sound quality can really vary that much, as a cable's only real job is to get out of the way.
Anyone have any thoughts/theories?
Different cable manufacturers have their secret "cooking" formula of mixing and matching different materials. Plating the wire, as I mentioned in EE thread, is the most common technique. Blending different metals is another technique, but a lot more expensive. Different proportions of that mixing or plating with material other than silver adds some coloration, I guess? Gold is very common, but has less conductivity than silver and copper. This is beyond my comprehension, and sometimes it makes me wonder if some of it is actually trial'n'error by manufacturers.
I don't know how you can engineer the sound by predicting exactly which material and how to mix it. Wire "skin effect" is pure physics (electric signal travels on the surface), thus silver plating makes sense to me. Using Litz wires, very thin wires twisted together also makes sense because every SPC wire will have signal traveling on the surface and combining many thin wires increases the "surface" area. Insulation of signal from the ground wires also makes sense, you don't want a cross-coupling (ground noise getting into the signal path). But when it comes to the material and how its being selected and mixed, I'm puzzled. Just like I'm still scratching my head how a pure copper PWA 1960 cable sounds better than any other pure copper cable I have tested before.
The answer lies in the geometry of the cable itself. When all metals cool, they form crystals. How the cable sounds depends on the shape of the crystals.
Different cable manufacturers have their secret "cooking" formulaof mixing and matching different materials. Plating the wire, as I mentioned in EE thread, is the most common technique. Blending different metals is another technique, but a lot more expensive. Different proportions of that mixing or plating with material other than silver adds some coloration, I guess? Gold is very common, but has less conductivity than silver and copper. This is beyond my comprehension, and sometimes it makes me wonder if some of it is actually trial'n'error by manufacturers.
I don't know how you can engineer the sound by predicting exactly which material and how to mix it. Wire "skin effect" is pure physics (electric signal travels on the surface), thus silver plating makes sense to me. Using Litz wires, very thin wires twisted together also makes sense because every SPC wire will have signal traveling on the surface and combining many thin wires increases the "surface" area. Insulation of signal from the ground wires also makes sense, you don't want a cross-coupling (ground noise getting into the signal path). But when it comes to the material and how its being selected and mixed, I'm puzzled. Just like I'm still scratching my head how a pure copper PWA 1960 cable sounds better than any other pure copper cable I have tested before.
The answer lies in the geometry of the cable itself. When all metals cool, they form crystals. How the cable sounds depends on the shape of the crystals.
But that's all part of manufacturing process, and I was under impression majority are using the same UPOCC (Ultra-Pure Ohno Continuous Casting). So, there shouldn't be too much variation in manufacturing of the wires itself?
The answer lies in the geometry of the cable itself. When all metals cool, they form crystals. How the cable sounds depends on the shape of the crystals.