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RE: carbon fiber in teflon

"seems high" is a bit vague don't you think?

In fact it depends on the situation.

A typical line stage will usually have an output impedance of somewhere between a 100 and 1000 ohms. So you can think of it as being a voltage source with this resistance in series (ie in between). So adding 33 ohms of resistance makes little difference to the overall output impedance.

The destination input impedance will be much higher than this, usually from 10,000 to 100,000 ohms.

So in an interconnect system, 33ohms is insignificant. What matters is how well it works, how good it sounds. (In fact the original carbon IC, the Van Den Hul "The First" had a resistance around 300ohms)

Another situation : speaker cables. Well a 33ohm resistance is not going to be good here.. The output impedance of the preceding stage will be a fraction of an ohm typically, and the input impedance of the next stage usually 4 or 8 ohms, so in this situation, 33 ohms will swamp the other impedances.




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