Kicksonrt66
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PRobably some of them actually believe. I'm waiting for a company to come out with 2 lines of cables, and you have to switch them when Mercury is in retrograde.
Originally Posted by cegras /img/forum/go_quote.gif i) I thought traces used copper plates .. why are they talking about tin/lead alloys? ii) If the PCB is multilayer or has a polymer coating on the top and bottom, what is the point of gold plating? |
Originally Posted by obobskivich /img/forum/go_quote.gif hahaha, I was originally thinking this was 100% serious, but I like the irony of your question basically the audiophile defense of that 6' is: you want the highest quality for what you can control the rational, engineering rebuke is: who cares, its an inconsequential detail that has no measurable impact on any aspect of performance, as long as the current is delivered in a stable manner with minimal noise/interference (minimal meaning within the limits of rejection by the device) you're good now, if you were to take a power conditioner, and then feed a few inches of cable off of that into your equipment, thats a new arguement altogether (because now you're at least doing *something* to the line power) |
Originally Posted by Jolida302 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Silver doesn't work for power cord. It only works for interconnect and speakers cables. |
Originally Posted by powertoold /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why use a cable at all? Why not extend the outlet to the amp directly? It's just another 3-4 feet of the outlet wire. |
Originally Posted by Kicksonrt66 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Surely not cost effective, but doesn't work? Care to explain why you CAN'T make a power cord out of silver? |
Originally Posted by Jolida302 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I mean there's no benefit of using silver for power cords. |
Originally Posted by randomasdf /img/forum/go_quote.gif This issue really confuses me. As far as I know, the material of the cable should be irrelevant to keeping the signal as "intact" as possible, especially when applied as a coating. I can understand shielding, flexibility and the such, but why the material in the wire(not the plug). I've also been told(by EEs with decades of experience) that the relative difference in material is in the figure of several ppm, and has a minimal effect on the distortion when compared to other components(or is this wrong?). What is more important, is the cable thickness, as illustrated by coat hangars(or am I wrong on this too?). Sometimes, much of this all seems like the placebo effect to me =|. But I can't really say either, since I haven't exactly re cabled any of my equipment or the such. Numerical measurements would be nice too, if anyone replies =D |
Originally Posted by FallenAngel /img/forum/go_quote.gif 2 things #1 : Stop listening to EE's, they're set in their ways and have likely NEVER bothered to question what they were taught. Use your own ears and be the judge! |