Cable Asylum: RE: My Cable Journey by paul6001

While I'm thrilled to get the feedback, I think my post was misunderstood in some quarters. First, some seem to see an eagerness to learn more about this subject. If that was in anything that I wrote, I must inform you that it was unintentional. I've come this far without knowing what capacitance or inter-chasis potentials are and I plan to go to my grave with that deficit intact.

Please don't read think that I lack intellectual curiosity. The French Revolution, Ethel Rosenberg's role in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring? Love it, wan to read more of it, can't get enough. But I'm going to leave the subjects with numbers in them to the experts.

Next, Jon Risch himself writes that "You seem to think that there is little scientific basis for cables sounding different." That is a perfect summary of my old view. My new view, as I tried to explain, is this: I don't know what to think.

My old view had a scientific basis, an inner consistency, it was elegant, to use a term that mathematicians love. My new view just leaves me floating around in space.

I have first hand experience that different speaker cables sound different. More different than scientists would allow for. It's not just that one cable has a thicker gauge or anything like that. They just sound different. But they shouldn't. If I give up that belief, I might as well pull the vaccine out of my body, move to Idaho, and vote for Trump.

As for interconnects and power cables, my first hand experience is not sufficient for me to give up my default view, which is essentially whatever the consensus of physicists tell me it should be.