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Re: Some misunderstandings

Peter:
"" I am suggesting that the blind insistence that LCR measurements are the end of the story is farcical. Progress on this is necessariliy going to be fuzzy, and it's perfectly reasonable to rely on subjective input in making progress, at least in terms of suggesting areas to investigate.""

Totally, totally in agreement..

As I have done, by having Ted provide me his subjective input w/r to the cables I sent him to evaluate...

Leading me into another realm of research....the fun stuff..

I am wholly opposed to categorizing the cables based only on some equation of weighting, as I couldn't recommend a weighting scheme which correlates to anything audible..

I am also wholly opposed to the simple categorization of those efforts as useless..starting points are never useless...they are never complete and all encompassing, but they are never useless..

Earth, wind, fire, and water were reasonable descriptors of everything..wrong, but reasonable at the time, as is the concept of proton and neutron.. (no relation, thank you)..

BTW, I have resisted efforts at having Gene at AH measure one of my cables..that is rather useless...as, knowing the weighing metrics used, I can simply make an extremely low inductance, low capacitance, low resistance cable, to far exceed anything they have measured...proving I'm number 1...

But, does that mean the cable is any good?? Who knows..it just means I can design the cable to be the best w/r to an arbitrary metric..

The combination of measurement and subjective feedback...IMHO, can eventually lead to a good metric, which would allow the design of the cable that bests that metric..

So far, I've been able to work the e/m theory to provide the ability to make a cable with any parameters...now I just have to get some reasonable players to actually talk to one another..instead of denigrating one another..

Cheers, John



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