[Sonnova]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 05:46:13 -0700, JWV Miller wrote
(in article ):

On Sep 2, 8:07*pm, Rob Tweed wrote:

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*However, I was quite surprised because it did seem as
if there was a difference when I used the cheap throw-away cable. *I
won't get into any dubious subjective descriptions of how it sounded
different. *Of course it may simply be due to some observer bias,
though, as I said, my ingoing expectation was to hear no difference at
all which is why I was surpised.

I guess the cheap cable may be miserably engineered as suggested - it
is extremely thin for sure. *And of course I can't rule out the
possibility that I was just imagining the difference it seemed to
make.

It is clearly possible to make a cable that sounds different as some
of the high-end companies have demonstrated on many occasions. Being
extremely thin, it may suffer from high capacitance or very poor
shielding. There is no guarantee that really cheap cables will work
properly given that their main attribute is low cost but most seem to
function as expected.

All I can say is while it's "possible" its not bloody likely! All of this
talk about high capacitance in thin or cheap cables evaporates into
nothingness when you see what the actual capacitance per foot is on any
coaxial cable likely to be used for audio and actually do the math. In any
reasonable length for interconnects (.5 to 3.0 meters) even the highest
capacitance cables have so little capacitive reactance at 20 KHz, or even at
50 KHz that it couldn't possibly affect the audio waveform passing through
it in any way.