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Industry data points

Posted by geoffkait on August 23, 2022 at 03:56:01:
The trouble is that "industry standards" or "industry data points" - whatever that means - has little relevance to the discussion at hand. What industry are you referring to? The audio industry - specially the high end audio industry - has very few standards or requirements or regulations. There are no standards for polarity, wire directionality, fuses, power cords or cables. [NOTE: I'm not referring to function here, I'm referring to SOUND QUALITY.] Obviously a fuse must function to protect the electronics, for example. The debate is still on going regarding balanced vs unbalanced cables anyway. Ditto for shielded vs unshielded, or copper vs silver conductors. I'm not referring to theoretical functionality, I'm referring to SOUND QUALITY.
There are no standards for sound quality, not the ones I'm talking about. Sure there are specifications, but that's not the same thing as sound quality as we know. The same cables or electronics or CD can sound radically different in different systems and different rooms.
The question remains: What is the "audio signal" in cables? If we knew what exactly were dealing with, what is being affected by internal and external factors, like RFI and vibration, we could build better fuses and cables. And even better amplifiers. I'm not referring to theoretical physics or electronics, or even functionality, I'm referring to SOUND QUALITY.
1. Audio waveform
2. Current
3. Electrons
4. Voltage
5.:Poynting vector
6. Magnetic field
7. Electric field
8. Electromagnetic wave