Musings on interconnects

Yeah his musings on interconnects makes me chuckle too.

Identical frequency response on every single one of them. It marvels me in this day and age that people still think cables are matters of subjective opinion, and that they can sound different. They don’t, neither do digital cables, network cables and software players.

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TBH I did notice a significant difference in speaker cable once. In the days I owned Quad 57s and NVA amps. Chucking what I later learned was a high capacitance cable in the mix caused a few sparks with the volume up !
Other than that, naff all difference.

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Sorry but unanimous opinion by a group of ten audiophiles checking differences using standar good Cu cables and high quality Ag with very good isolation and anti EMI cables, both for speakers and signal,
Makes ASTONISHING diferences
It has a fully technical explanation that I am not going to explain here
Electromagnetic signal transmission through a cable is something a little more complex than Impedance matter.

Umm. No. It isn’t. Tramsmission through a cable is exactly about impedance and nothing more.

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Ready for a new episode of cables, sitting on my sofa :popcorn:

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Please no, it’s on endless repeat.

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Well, there’s skin effect, for example, and standing wave ratios, return loss, etc; we worry about such things in amateur radio.

But these are frequency dependent: what matters for VHF at 144MHz, or higher UHF, microwave etc, doesn’t matter at all at the audio frequencies <20kHz that concern us here.

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But all of these are related to impedance. Skin effect causes impedance to be higher than otherwise expected at high frequencies (typically RF and beyond for copper) whilst standing waves and return losses are caused by connecting system elements (of which the cable is one) with mismatched impedances. This is why domestic TV and radio systems use 75ohm antennas, 75ohm characteristic impedance coaxial cable and your TV receiver will have a 75ohm input impedance. In many other applucations, 50ohm impedances are used.

So it’s still all about impedance.

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So what you’re sayin is, you all can hear better than an oscilloscope measures? That differences utterly imperceptible to measurement were clearly audible to a bunch of golden eared audiophiles.

Sure…. Sounds plausible

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I do enjoy reading the back and fourth I must admit.

Though it’s the guy’s who say roon sounds different after each update that really crack me up.

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Bizarrely, if my feet are wet after a dog walk my main Roon system sounds better thsn when they are dry!

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Of course it does, proper earthing is very important!

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I always thought, interconnects are completely unimportant to my system, until I tried to listen to music without them. :joy:

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What happend?

Torben

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The sound of silence? :face_with_monocle:

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Oh no, tell me we haven’t just resurrected another cable discussion thread… :roll_eyes:

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Presumably you didn’t realise that you were replying to a 3 year old thread…