Home Propeller Head Plaza

Technical and scientific discussion of amps, cables and other topics.

[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Propeller Head Plaza ]
[ Alert Moderator ]

Most of my work has been in coaxial cables, in the mode of the original Oliver Heaviside invention

The coaxial cable was invented, mostly via pure math, by a British Post Office employee who was mostly self-taught.

But that did not stop Oliver Heaviside from independently inventing Vector Analysis Calculus as well as (IIRC) independently inventing the functional equivalent of the Laplace Transform.

The coaxial cable is one of the most elegant "invention stories" in technological history.

So, answer 1 is, coaxial cables are different from pairs of wires, whether flat or twisted.

Answer 2 is tha many electrical signals representing musical events are not symmetrical, either plus to minus, or left to right.

So, whether the correct phase gets the benefit of the smoother electrical path, does seem to matter.

I switched cable-fabrication subcontractors when the one I had could not be bothered to maintain proper directionality in XLRF/XLRM cables.

But, just the other day, someone who should have known better assured me that CD Error Correction takes care of all of that.

Not so.

I played the exact same music once for JA, first on an aluminum (pressed) CD and then on a 24-Kt Gold (pressed) CD, and he commented that he did not like living in a universe where such a detail made an audible difference... but he did hear the difference!!!

(And, I wrote about that for Stereophile, and JA had the good grace to publish it).

jm

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  VH Audio  

Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
FAQ

Post a Message!

 Forgot Password?
Moniker (Username):
Password (Optional):
  Remember my Moniker & Password  (What's this?)    Eat Me
E-Mail (Optional):
Subject:
Message:   (Posts are subject to Content Rules)
Optional Link URL:
Optional Link Title:
Optional Image URL:
Upload Image:
E-mail Replies:  Automagically notify you when someone responds.

[ Top Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]