Mockery of Audiophiles

actually, steve martin uses ATC speakers, according to their website:

http://www.atc.gb.net/users.htm

hmm, i've got ATC's - how do i get MY name on that list?

Steve Martin is a comic? Hell, there I was thinking he was a reviewer for one of the subjective mags. I beg to differ, the stuff on Gon seems way more funny. Some of the stuff on other audio sites too for that matter. Cable stuff usually has me in stitches, especially the skin effect and the way stuff bounces up and down in cables and that the electrons carrying different frequencies are fighting together all the way out the other end trying to go from one elongated copper crystal to the next.

For a chuckle you can also read the descriptions on the Bose equipment on eBay.

skin effect is real. I see proof of it every day as a tech for AT&T. You can test tarnished cable and detect huge attenuation at high frequencies. It's easily explainable through simple physics: high frequencies by definition have very tiny wavelengths. Wavelengths of a fraction of a millimeter don't use the whole cable. Of course, our bandwidth is much greater than 20 to 20k....we use 5k to 750k, and there are systems with greater bandwidth than that. Of course, the proof is whether it sounds better. I pulled off one piece of "cheap" (relatively) Synergistic Research cable and put on a one meter Siltech RCA. The difference was clearly audible, even though I still had weakerr links in the chain. Frankly I was surprised, because I didn't expect improvement until they were all replaced. Siltech uses unobtanium in their better cables.

Thank you Hammy!  We need more informative posts like this one on Agon that help doubters to understand that cable technology involves very real science and that properly designed cable provide very real performance increases over the average stuff.  Deny it all you want cable doubters(you're making ME laugh), millions of audio enthusiast across the globe already know better.

BTW...Steve Martin is a musician, audiophile, AND comedic genius!