Do Cables Wear Out?

05-30-06: Gunbei
Tvad, using a penny or dime is how old timers determined if it was time to buy a new set of tires. If you could see the top of the President's head you have enough tread left. If not, time to fork out the dough!

Ah, of course...I should have known it was a car reference. :)

The Electron-O-Meter would be a precision device utilizing milspec knarkle valves, and it would come in it's own faux alligator, snap-close, Naugahyde carrying pouch.

We could emboss the image of a penny on the pouch.

"Knarkle" valves? I'm frightened already. But from a fashion stand point what you describe would be an ideal match for Gilbert Yeung's Preamp Purse and Pump Monoblocks.

Cable Threads on Audiogon NEVER wear out. They are always in fashion and there is at least one each week and they abound with clarity.

Mitch2, do you mean to say that you are calling my bluff? . . . 'Twas just about time someone did these days! It's amazing the kind of rubbish I am getting away with on the more frivolous threads. On the other hand. . . I thought it was a really neat idea, and I am sure careful application of Intelligent Chips and Clever Little Clocks to anyone's CDp would alleviate much of the noise caused by highly ionized Sulphur plasma in dirty AC from cole-fired power plants.

Aloysius

Guidocorona -- not so. It has been proven lately (see Holbein, & Mesmer in American Scientific, issue 69, Feb 31st 2009) that IC and CLC only impact air molecules, at quantum level.

On the other hand, OIL powered plants (the majority) inject paraben agents as preservatives into the electron flow. While this keeps the electrons immune from certain infections (and by the same token, protects our tubes & transistors from microbiological attack), it causes ALTERATIONS in the molecular structure of wires.

So given time, the wires ("cables") deteriorate and this is NON reversible!!!

So, buy back-up cables while the going is still good... as many as you can! There will come the day, not so far hence, when we will have equipment but NO WIRE!!!