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In Reply to: Hi, machani... posted by Duster on November 14, 2005 at 20:40:20:
Hi Duster,To be quite honest I did not have much of an opinion about cables at first. In my HT days I had posed questions in AVSForum about what cables would improve the sound of my Cerwin Vega HT speaker, and was pointed to Speaker cable face off #1 at AudioHolics, and received other "advice" that I would be wasting money on cables. But to my ears a decent subwoofer cable (for an active sub) and 12 AWG speaker cables made a difference over the cheap stock sub and speaker cables that came with the speakers.
I made the transition from HT to two channel over 18 months ago when I bought a Cayin TA-30 amp. Ironically, it was an engineer (masters in EE) friend who introduced me to tubes and I found that a dedicated two channel was far more pleasing for enjoying music than HT (at least budget HT gear).
In the interest of brevity, please read an earlier post by following the link. The essence of that post is that, as I tweaked and added revealing components to my setup, the more I could perceive difference in sound between cables and accessories, as well as phenomena like burn in. I was skeptical about burn in until I tried an experiment myself with identical DIY power cords. I was able to easily tell in blind tests which one was burned in two weeks on a refrigerator.
Now going back to the point about BS and MS in engineering. I find a lot of the hard core skeptics and naysayers to be extremely opionated, a lot like me during my BS in engineering days. The more one knows the more open minded one becomes. From a mechanical engineering standpoint, when one takes a course in, for example Viscous Turbulent Flow, offered at the MS level, it makes you a lot more humble than when you take a course on Fluid Dynamics, which you think you mastered well at the BS level.
My background is not in EE, and I would indeed give credit to the guys in AudioHolics for dispelling certain myths, but I find a lot of reasoning and explanations by naysayers to be rudimentary, at best. For example, the circuit diagrams are those one encounters in EE 101 or 102. At that level there are assumptions and boundary conditions galore. Interestingly, Mudcat's speaker cable face off #2 at AH shows that RLC parameters measure differently at different frequencies well within the audible spectrum. It seems very reasonable to me that altering materials composition (by methods including the use cryogenics and silver plating) can change electrical characteristics enough to make audible differences.
No BS here!
___________C N Machani
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