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Re: Belden 8422

I would venture to guess that most "high end" interconnects have considerably less (relatively speaking) capacitance/meter than the 8422. Which in turn presents even less of a capacitive load to the drivers. From what I have read, that is a desirable attribute in an interconnect - low capacitance.

If this is the case, why does 100pf/m sound so much better than an ic with a lower value?

If this is not the case, why not experiment with a cable with an even higher capacitance/meter?

Or is 100pf/m the magic number based on in/out impedances of the average component?

So what could have been the contributing factor(s) to your hearing compressed dynamics and distortion with "high end" ic's? Did you disassemble any of them to get an understanding as to why they sounded so bad to you?


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