On 08/14/2014 08:10 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Incidentally, I refer to the sort of people being described here as
'audiophools' :-)
Kind of like
the wine business..
Honestly, I can't tell the difference in sound between 16 AWG zip cord
and gold-plated Litz wire monster cables. Neither could Bob Pease--he
added the bonus of adding a few splices.
An audio shop once tried ot sell my father some 'monocrystaline copper
speaker cable'. His reply 'I assume it comes shaped to fit my room, and
is annealed aftwer bending.' 'What?' 'Well, if I bend the cable I will
disrupt the crystal lattice, it will no longer be strictly monocrystaline'
'What?' 'I am a physcial chemist. Cut the B*llsh*t.'
I rememebr the time he was lookign at high-end CD players. One such, very
expensive, used the cheapesyt Philips CD mechansim (the same one in mu
external CD-ROM drive, actually...) and the decoder board broke _every_
design rule inthe Philips datasheets for the ICs uses. When I found
decoupling capacitors several cm for the IC they were supposed to be
decoupling (when the data sheet said they had ot be SMD parts under the
IC) I knew the design was, shall we say, inferior.
Perhaps some audiophool could tell me why domestic audio equipment never
has balanced inputs and outputs. Now that, by eliminating problems from
ground noise, could make a real differnece. But that's engineering, not
snake oil, I guess.
-tony
