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On 3 Jan 2005 16:14:06 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Jodster wrote:

I remember a flame war that went on here last year between some loser that
said he could hear the difference silver patch cords made while transferring
a DIGITAL signal!!!

Maybe he could.

Maybe the Moon really is made of green cheese..........

WTF?! I used to work in an electronics lab that did calibration for the
military and I'm used to measuring jitter and slew rates in the pico-second
range. What does the Military use . .good old copper my friend! a $5.00 BNC
cable from Pomona is good to over 500MHz before it drops 3 dB. as long as
you keep capacitance in check, you could use ****ing coathangers for patch
cables. This guy got rode for over $200.00 to patch a digital signal through
silver.

Yes, and cables that MIGHT have resulted in much higher jitter rates
to the point where the degradation was audible.

In which case, the system was broken, and a well-shielded 75-ohm
copper cable is as good as it gets in any case.

It's easy to build something that sounds different, it's hard to build
something that sounds better.

However, it's not hard to build something that sounds accurate -
unless you use tubes........

The problem is that it's much too easy to
mistake different for better.

Don't laugh when people say they can hear something weird. Laugh when they
say it's an improvement.

No, just ask them to show results of blind testing that *proves* they
heard something different.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering