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In Reply to: RE: When Did Audio Cables Become A Component posted by AudioSoul on August 17, 2016 at 15:58:28
it started with DIYers making their own cables.
The first commercial product I remember are the FULTON speaker cables and interconnects. You should have heard the catcalls and jollity aimed at Mr. Fulton!
His premium speaker cable was of a length he found to work best - Jeff Medwin knows all of the particulars - something over 40 feet I think I remember and the size of garden hose.
I think the POLK cable came many years later but was a bold approach and those still have validity today. Unfortunately they are fragile and can make things go very wrong if they are damaged and short your amplifier output.
I bet Western Electric had proprietary cables for their systems.
Nothing new under the Sun ...
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"I think the POLK cable came many years later but was a bold approach and those still have validity today. Unfortunately they are fragile and can make things go very wrong if they are damaged and short your amplifier output. "
The shop I worked for at the time stopped selling them for this very reason after two clients had their amps damaged. Any cable that has the potential to blow up equipment is not something you want to sell.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
they had extremely high capacitance and caused oscillation.
Some cables today continue that particular metric bias, but the best in my experience balance both L and C for the lowest overall effective dielectric constant.
Who uses the Polks today, and I can attest that he has no problems and his system sounds fabulous.
though I am not using them at the moment.
AS long as one did not step on them repeatedly or bend them too tightly they will be fine.
Not for those who do not understand them!
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