Re: Shielded mains cable

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Arny Krueger wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
"François Yves Le Gal" wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

I'm sick of idiot fantasists like you and their magic
cables

There's no magic in proper engineering practices. Using
shielded mains cables can reduce noise, period..

You're talking audiophool myth.

Or, poorly-designed audio gear. This can be a problem
with equipment designed by the sorts of incomptents that
ply the audio high end consumer market.

I'll bet you can't substantiate such a claim with a
technical description for it.

There's been a lot of weirdness in high end audio gear -
power amps that burned down people's houses,

Instability maybe causing circuit burn-up compounded by
failure to apply well-known international standards for
product safety that ensure fires won't happen ?

The sort of fuzzy thinking that leads to a lot of so-called advances more
common in high end audio tends to lead there...

DACs that were highly dependent on some
specific properties of the input cables

Doubless the absence of proper signal buffering /
conditioning.

Something like that. There was a perception that the usual kinds of signal
processing would degrade the recovered audio. Self-verification based on
sighted evaluations, and like that.

Maybe a misguided attempt to avoid
'upsetting the sound' by passing a digital signal
through an extra buffer stage in some bizarre analogy
with analogue signals ?

Yup.

, power amps that were highly dependent on the use of
certain speaker cables, etc.

Ah yes. Like the Naim amps that can't tolerate cable
capacitance. Pure bad design.

Yup.


Most knowlegable people would call this bad design, but
"any difference is perceived as an improvement"

How they know it's an *IMPROVEMENT* is what always amuses
me !

Note that many of these *IMPROVERMENT(s)* are said to help performance in
ways that befuddle standard measurements and bias-controlled listening
tests.

is a common among high end audiophiles and reviewers.
IOW how
many reviews have suggested that a piece of gear that
was inordinately sensitive to odd properties of cable
was "highly revealing of quality differences in cables"?

It's certainly highly revealing of bad design !

Agreed.

Justice may be over-served when fuzzy thinking leads to destruction of
property.



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