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My take on the cables debate

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Werd:
Ok this is how I look at it after reading umpteen posts and partaking in many the conflict. An EE or an Electrician or any able body person able to take make measurements can not tell what something sounds like by using an oscilloscope used to measure electricity at a certain point.  Oscilloscopes are not designed to measure hearing. All it can do is measure an electrical signal and display it on a screen. It will tell you the frequency but it can not tell you what it sounds like. 

Here is an example of the reverse logic applied by many naysayers. I have heard them say this including supporters of cables. They will say "It helps to clean the contacts" and I agree. There is a very noticeable sonic change when contacts are clean. But if we measure the cable (using an oscilloscope) we see the exact measurements from both clean and dirty contacts. It's because oscilloscopes can not measure the impurities on the wire unless it changs a parameter measurable by an oscilloscope, like voltage. It doesn't tell you what the impurity content or the sound difference of the cable due to it.

Oh well ...

topround:
completely agree.....
the measurement guys believe in their tools a little too strongly, we are talking about how a thing sounds and their tools cannot do that.

As I have gotten older my beliefs have changed or softened, so many shades of grey, I have heard low power, high efficient system sound awesome, also high powered huge speaker systems sound awesome, and old vintage systems put together so well they sound awesome...so many ways to cut this cake,,no right way, tubes or SS when done right it sounds great.
So easy to be drawn into a school of thought, like a cult...it limits your thought.

Yoga does teach to be less competitive, we are all in it together for the same reason, no one cares what the guy(usually girl) next to you is doing,we are there to practice yoga, your yoga is your yoga
love it so much!!

Werd:
How about the girl on the mat infront of you. Yowza oh yah. :thumb:

richidoo:
Taking the other side... A cable doesn't sound like anything, it is not a transducer. Ideally it should remain perfectly silent at all times, and not smell either.  :D

Cleaning the contacts would make an audible change if the contacts were dirty enough to substantially affect the total resistance of the load. This will reduce damping and affect the sound. The smaller the damping factor between the components, the more the dirty contacts will have an effect.  The problem is most contacts these days are gold plated, so not much corrosion builds up in a lifetime to materially affect resistance.

There is much to be said about cables, blablabla. In the end, our brains have so much slop in perception that drowns out even the test instruments, much less our own ears. It is what it is. Buy what you think you like, get rid of it when you change your mind. That's really all there is. The mind is the elephant in the room.

"Know thyself" - Socrates

Werd:
The wire might sound transparent but cable as a whole won't. I am still not confortable with that analogy. Even though there is nothing wrong with it. If the cable has oxidized from lousy prong plating and if it's the impedance that is the culprit then that is one hell of a reciprocal effect. Only because the added resistance maybe negligible but the sonic improvement is way more substantial then cleaning off the tiny added impedance might suggest. So we have this small movement in resistance but a very noticeable sonic improvement. The highs just sound more responsive. That is weird.

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