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RE: A much needed lesson in science. You are welcome

Posted by Analog Scott on July 22, 2022 at 17:21:30:
>>>So what are the criteria that make speaker cables "competent?" ....>>>

>> capacitance, inductance and resistance >>

> ALL cables have capacitance, inductance and resistance..... Even the worst snake oil products......>

Yes. but the ones that have too much start to act as a passive equalizer and skew the audible frequency response. That's when the cables become "incompetently" designed. The ones that don't have too much are competently designed and don't audibly color the sound. Of course this is assuming the design goal is maximum audible transparency. A cable may be designed to color the sound on purpose.But we can call that a combination cable/passive equalizer.

and I did forget to mention basic shielding built into the design. If a cable doesn't have that then it is also "incompetently" designed.