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In Reply to: Jon, what does make a cable High Performance? posted by Tony Montana on July 5, 2004 at 15:56:04:
What are the best materials?Is it a combination of copper, polyethylene, and aluminized mylar foil?
Tinned copper with polyurethane?
One of the cables you highly recommended in the past (1505F) have a tinned copper shield, foamed PE, and a bare copper stranded center wire. Is this tyhe ultimate?
Most people who have actually listened to it would say no.
It could be the foamed PE is not the ultimate, just air or a vacuum would be the ultimate. But these are not very practical insulator materials if unaccompanied by something else. So we use the best we can, with as much air as possible, and the least intruding additional material. Many prefer foamed FEP teflon to foamed PE.
Is it the tinned copper braids? Could be, bare copper tends to sound better, and multiple braids that are in contact with one another can also present problems with how the signal distributes acros the two braids electrically.
Of it could be the simple coax geometry, most folks have found that all else being equal, a shielded twisted pair sounds superior.
There is also some back-up for this in the text-book ivory tower world of old-school physics.Is 89259 the ultimate? No, it can be bettered, and has been. What is the ultimate FOR EVERY SYSTEM, regardless of the ground loops, the specific components involved?
Your "industrial strength" cables are merely a cost effective shot at "close enough" to sound OK, not perfection, not the ultimate, but what they can afford for using so many feet of cables.
An OEM tire is pretty decent nowadays, a cheap PEP Boys repelcement may not be as good, a Michelin might equal it, and a Dunlop or Pirreli might perform better. A high performance tire.
None of them are perfect, or the ultimate.
You were recommending the PEP Boys tires, then you upgraded to Michelins, but you still don't get it that there ARE higher performance tires out there, ones that can beat the OEM tires, and the "prety good" tires by enough of a margin that SOME people are willing to pay for them.
Does the "Little old lady from Pasedena" need "high performance tires"? Not if all she does is go to the store at 30 mph once a week, any old tire will do in that instance.
Look at the young adult with a small roadster, and they would be using some of that "high performance" capability on occasion, perhaps even depending on it to "save their butt" in a tight spot.For them, a high performance tire is not a luxury, or uneccessary but it is a must have.
Some folks like to have cables that don't limit them to the equivalent of a once a week trip to the store at 30 mph. Some folks have systems that are capable of 120 around dead mans curve, and want to hear everything there is to hear.
Jon Risch
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