Doug Sax on wire
"Eeyore" wrote in message
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I know that I can hear a difference between copper-clad-steel
RG-174 and similar copper cable. I am pretty sure that is due to
junction
issues.
Copper clad steel will have significantly higher resistance than steel of
course. Your contacts would have to be fairly dirty for rectification to
kick
in, I'll venture.
A few decades ago somebody from one of the larger Japanese hi-fi
manufacturers, I think Kenwood, published a paper in JAES theorizing that
the proximity of ferromagnetic metal to conductors carrying audio signals
could add distortion; they included measurements which seemed to show
significant effects. IIRC, the effect was inverse-square proportional, but
it may have been inverse-to-the-fourth-power. It's been a long time.
Anyway, they did include measurements; the paper might be worth looking up.
Peace,
Paul
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