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Cable silliness (again)
I was reading the latest issue of one of the US high-end audio rags.
In it, they were "reviewing" some new interconnects. This is what the reviewer said: "Inteconnects, like all cabling used in audio needs time to "break-in". That means that for the first few weeks, cable performance is all over the place. At first the cable seemed too "light", then after a few days it seemed too fulsome, and finally it sounded just right" (forgive me for rolling my eyes at this point!). So now the snake-oil sellers have an "out" when somebody disagrees with their findings about cable sound. "Oh, you haven't broken the cable-in correctly" (too little, too much, the wrong kind of signal, etc.) Gimme a break. Break-in a cable? Please, tell me by what mechanism a passive conductor "breaks-in? And don't gimme any crap about dielectric polarization, or some such nonsense. As a cable engineer for an aerospace company back in the early sixties, we measured dielectric polarization for coax used in spacecraft. Yes it can occur, IN A VACUUM! In air, it bleeds off more quickly than it forms and it has no effect on the signal at all below microwave frequencies! Like I said, complete and utter balderdash. |
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