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RE: Coax for IC?

Posted by Duster (M) on October 12, 2014 at 13:02:51

In Reply to: Coax for IC? posted by Solidcore on October 12, 2014 at 06:33:04:

There are few reasons to seek out a coaxial cable for a line-level application. One reason is since the braided shield also serves as the return conductor, and a braided shield tends to be an effectively large gauge conductor, a braided shield when also implemented as return tends to provide a lower impedance ground potential between source and load than a twisted pair which tends to feature relatively small gauge conductors for both signal and return. The lowered noise floor benefit of a low impedance return path tends to be component/system dependent, since a relatively small gauge return conductor of an unshielded twisted pair or a Faraday shielded twisted pair does not always present audible issues that can be remedied by the use of a single ended coaxial cable.

That said, the new VH Audio Pulsar Cu II OCC copper coaxial cable is the best sounding coaxial cable I've heard for a single ended interconnect application. The "happy medium" 24 AWG solid core OCC copper center conductor with minimal AirLock cellular Teflon dielectric sounds excellent for both digital and single ended analog applications, IME.

See link:

• http://www.vhaudio.com/wire.html   (Open in New Window)

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