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Re: Why is Siltech the only line with a gold-silver conductor?

I believe you are taking the Stereophile article too seriously and drawing the wrong conclusions.

This method works well for very high-frequency signals, but can be overkill for audio signals. In fact, I can design for you a cable/system that is perfectly matched, so no reflections (echoes) will occur, and yet this system will sound abysmal for an audio system. The reason is that the lumped parameters are actually more important than the distributed paramters in the audio band.

Since the characteristic impedance is sqrt(L/C), this means that L and C can be as high as I want and still match the impedance of the line and load. This is obviously not a good idea, since at audio frequencies, the capacitance of the entire line is seen by the driver.

I would agree that if you built a low-capacitance, low-inductance cable and THEN matched the line and load impedances to that, then you would indeed have avery high-bandwidth cable suitable for audio that will not exhibit HF reflections.


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