[time-nuts] OT: Audiophoolery
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SAIDJACK at aol.com
Fri Apr 20 13:04:44 EDT 2007
In a message dated 4/19/2007 23:54:17 Pacific Daylight Time,
dforbes at dakotacom.net writes:
actually have heard a difference in speaker cables once - albeit in
a system with six woofers wired in parallel. The resulting 2 ohm
impedance required a serious Phase Linear 800 watt amplifier and some
really big speaker cables to sound half-decent. These speakers,
driven by a 100W consumer Kenwood amp and/or 16 gauge zip cord,
sounded rather thin.
Of course, the solution was 12 gauge zip cord that cost 15 cents per foot.
A couple of years ago an Audiophile magazine did a test, two identical
systems just different speaker wires, all behind a curtain.
The audiophiles loved cable B) it sounded so "tube". They didn't like cable
A)
Turns out cable B) was standard solid copper two-strand telephone wire at $1
per kilometer, and cable A) was an ultra expensive speaker cable. It sounded
tube because of the missing damping from the thin cable.
Afterwards they came up with all sorts of excuses of course, like there was
no moon landing, maybe they swapped the results, or maybe the system A) was
damaged etc.
Same thinking goes into the power cables, $5000 from the amp to the wall
outlet, then $0.01 inside the wall to the utility.
yeah right.
bye,
Said
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