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Cable Snake Oil Antidote

Some might find this Cable Snake Oil Antidote interesting with respect to LRC, the signal and the system.

Cables affect the sound and the effect is system dependent.

Another's opinion on a cable in a vastly different system may not be valid.
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bdp24
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PS Audio part of a Belden Cable ploy? If Paul McGowen was going to push any cable, it would be those he has in the PS Audio sound room system, those made by his buddy William Low---Audioquest.

While Bill Low, Ray Kimber, George Cardas, and other HI-Fi cable designers may proselytise that the principles laid out in the Belden articles don't include all the design elements that contribute to the sound of cables, they don't dispute the truth of what the article DOES cover.

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I wasn’t suggesting Mr. McGowan was pushing Belden Cables. I was suggesting that it was published on PS Audio because it supposedly makes everybody look smart, including Paul McGowan. As I said, anyone could have cut and pasted the articles from Wikipedia. Everything is on the internet. No biggie. And my point is that all that technical jargon doesn’t really settle the Great Cable Debate. It’s like saying the sky is blue. I assume it impresses people who aren’t technical.
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One man’s technical jargon is another’s facts about the magnetic behavior of wire, as explained by an electrical engineer. No harm in that knowing the basics, unless one harbors an irrational fear of commonly-agreed-upon facts, or a distrust of anything coming from any member of the professionally-recognized electrical engineering fraternity.

Paul McGowan has never displayed any proclivity of appearing to try to look smart; that’s about the opposite of his personality. There ARE those who do, however. Paul, allow me to apologize, as it is unlikely to come from the source of the unearned and undeserved insult. Man, what a sick joke.

robertsteele0
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Good Lord,
Just invest bout $300 for material and make ur own?
Mine sound better than anything I have auditioned from Audioquest, Kimber.
First post for me.  I have been lurking for a while.
There is some real passion on this forum.  Definitely some north and south magnetic fields here.
Regards
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geoffkait
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bdp24
One man’s technical jargon is another’s facts about the magnetic behavior of wire, as explained by an electrical engineer. No harm in that knowing the basics, unless one harbors an irrational fear of commonly-agreed-upon facts, or a distrust of anything coming from any member of the professionally-recognized electrical engineering fraternity.

>>>>Geez, calm down. Commonly agreed on facts? Professionally recognized electrical engineering fraternity? Oh, please! The description of the magnetic behavior of wire and even the complete mathematical explanation of Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism do not necessarily help the curious audiophile decide which cable will sound best or which cable has the optimum geometry, gauge, dielectric or necessarily explain why one cable sounds better than another in a blind test.

Besides, even though practically everybody and his brother knows that current traveling through a wire induces a magnetic field nobody does anything about it. Well, almost nobody. There is only one person I know of who has addressed the induced magnetic field in cables. Let’s see if you can guess who that person is. 😛 All this technical fireworks does not advance the Great Cable Debate. I’m afraid the mystery remains. Oh, well. Anyone who wishes to get smart on electricity or electromagnetism or anything can Google it up on Wikipedia, for crying out loud.
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