mojo
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Please just remember to turn the power off at the mains because electricity does not taste nice to cats.
Originally Posted by Grizzlepaw /img/forum/go_quote.gif Zombie thread... Back from the dead! We still don't have the full papers back from the U of T, but they did prepare a power point presentation for us as an overview of the testing results which I posted to the website. Virtual Dynamics - Audiophile Audio Cable it's been up there for a while. |
Originally Posted by mojo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Slew rates on those scales for audio apps are meaningless. Typical line level output from a CD player or DAC is 3V peek to peek. That means that the "regular" cable could do a full peek-to-peek swing in 0.1us, or 1/10,000,000th of a second, or 10MHz. 10MHz is a bit beyond what most speakers can reproduce. So even if you played that square wave, the extreme possible example, the movement of the speaker cones would be the same with every cable. They just can't move that fast, in fact a tweeter that can go up to 44100Hz is 266 times slower. |
Originally Posted by Febs /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perhaps you could answer the actual question posed by mojo: Who at the U of T did the test? |
Originally Posted by bigshot /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think it's hibernation season again. See ya Steve |
Originally Posted by Grizzlepaw /img/forum/go_quote.gif Interestingly enough I have the preliminary results of a DBT of our interconnects in my email inbox. We won't be presenting them until the middle of May (once the paper is finished) but it shows a definite correlation between the dynamic filtering and SOL (magnet) technologies and an increase in slew rate. I realize that just having my word on it isn't gonna be good anough for anyone, it wouldn't be good enough for me... Which is why we are putting in the money and time to have them tested by a third party (which doesn't mean we are paying to have them tested... the testing is being done for free, the money is the investment of materials, shipping, plane tickets to go down and film the results, ect.) So yeah, if that is really all it is gonna take Bigshot, then I expect a sales order from you to be crossing Rita's desk within 3 months or so... assuming that you aren't misrepresenting your position. There does remain the possibility, however, that you aren't actually interested in improving your sound and your components, but intellectually invested in stroking your ego on this board. I'm going to be generous and assume you actually meant what you said... Additionally, when you talk about our markups, do you want us to increase the price? Because if we were to bring our cables in line with other products in our industry we would have to double our current listed retail, at a minimum. Production cost is something we are trying quite hard to reduce, but getting the cables built in China just doesn't seem like a viable idea for us. The best way for us to bring production costs, and therefore the price to our end user, down at this point is for us to increase our volume, which means increasing market share. We're working on that. -Brad PS. The results will be out sometime after May 5th. |
Originally Posted by Febs /img/forum/go_quote.gif Perhaps you could answer the actual question posed by mojo: Who at the U of T did the test? |
Originally Posted by mojo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think we're being a bit hard on cats - without this playful feline we would never have discovered this rip-off! People regularly disassemble their amps and headphones, but rarely cables. At least not fully. Has this humble cat started a revolution? |
Originally Posted by Budgie /img/forum/go_quote.gif Looks to me like the differences attributed to the VD cables are so small as to be insignificant for audio listening. |