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Michael Goodman

Feb 25, 2015

Haha, this has been a treacherous path, but I will attempt to help. Again. The signal enters the cable at the amp (point A) and exits at the speaker (point B). What happens between A and B is causing controversy. Studies show and experts agree that while going down a wire from point A to point B, different frequencies take different paths inside the wire itself. Now this may sound wacky, but they actually self-select inside the cable, due to the laws of physics (impedance is lower at the surface than at the core). And so, higher frequencies tend to travel towards the outer edge of the "pipe" if you imagine the wire as a pipe. Lower frequencies take the middle of the wire. The higher the current, the more pronounced the effect. The trick is transients. An orchestral tutti can multiply this effect, because the amp, the speaker and the cable are all working much harder to process the sudden current increase.
No special cross-over is needed. This all happens naturally within one wire. All we do is help by offering multiple parallel paths, which lowers the effective impedance, making the cable a smaller resistor. This reduces frequency-domain as well as phase domain non-linearity and assists in more truthful sound reproduction.
Some people think that the benefit is too small to notice and claim therefore that the expenditure is not warranted. We will not argue with them. In fact, this is tweaky stuff.
I have never wired my system with coat hangers, and may be they do work well, but to hear good cables you do need good speakers and a good amp. I have a good system and I hear it. The reviewers hear it.
Another question: Is this important? Again, to some it is, like a hot-rodded engine or the improved cornering of a race car. Others could care less about that level of performance and would just happily ride a bike to work, saving a ton of money in the process. Nothing wrong with that and it's probably better for your health. Yet, racing gives you the kind of adrenaline that a bike ride cannot deliver.
As long as we understand that these are different worlds of customers, we should hopefully stop comparing bicycles and race cars. I know people who spend thousands of dollars to tweak out their BMW in order to shave milliseconds off their track lap time. Ridiculous? Perhaps. Worth it? Apparently yes...