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In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Darwin Cables 3' Silver Interconnect Cable posted by rick_m on June 19, 2012 at 08:40:12
The proprietary sound of a cable would include more than just a portrayal of linear/non-linear frequencies; it will include the evaluation of many listening cues such as general coherency and PRAT, imaging, soundstaging, spatial cues, inner detail, ambient information retrieval, high resolution vividness, presence, etc.
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"high resolution vividness"
Or even low resolution dullness, how stuff sounds depends on what happens to the signal on it's journey through said stuff, and the boxes on either end are part of that 'stuff'! Since I want to improve my stuff it would help a lot if I better understood how all of the attributes that you mention map to the electrical and physical domains. And it ain't simple...
That complexity is the whole impetus behind humans measuring things. Although we experience the world in the gestalt we can't usually influence it effectively nor understand it well at that level so we try to dissect it into simpler factors that we can make sense of. That's the human way which is why you do that very thing when listening and I do it when designing. We divide and conquer. Or at least fight the battle...
The last pass I did on interconnects, a couple decades ago, was deliberately empirical and it was a hoot! While I'm still enjoying it's fruits I'd like to try and do better which I believe will require better sorting out the factors. Naturally that means being able to isolate and measure them which is why I was interested in the OP's assertion.
Regards, Rick
Cable measurements can be rather untelling as far as what a cable actually sounds like. I once read a report that included a cable that I know quite well, which measured among the lowest inductance and capacitance within a group of cables being compared, and that particular cable sounds unacceptably veiled to my ear, from an audiophile perspective.
"that particular cable sounds unacceptably veiled to my ear, from an audiophile perspective"
Well, guess there must be more afoot than L and C, huh? Or maybe the messed up something trying to minimize them.
Audio systems are deceptive, they seem so simple but as you well know they aren't by a long stretch. I'm happy with my current system's performance but I suppose better would be, er, better. I know that I could just try various things however at this point I'm actually more interested in trying to understand better what's going on than feeling driven to improve it. It's just something that's interesting to me and now I have time to do it. Guess we all have our oddities...
Rick
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