J. Gordon Holt grows up - Page 5

Wow... It took me a few minutes to figure it out, but I think I know spretzzatura from other fora.

ECA and DIYMA in particular.

Has a very strong aversion to kick-panel placement, but is definitely on the "correct" side of the audio science vs religion debate.

What's up DS-21?

You are only considering one possiblity: that the audio reviewers (and you) are actually hearing differences due to the cable, and that those differences are actually improvements over generic cable. There are at least two other possibilities:

1. The audio reviewers (and you) are imagining the differences.
2. There are actually audible differences, but they are worse than a generic cable, and the audio reviewers (and you) prefer the worse sound.

Those two alternative cases are not far-fetched as there are many examples of both in audio.


It is a valid critique of the article you posted --- I made no other claims about Cardas.


This is a strange one, because Cardas claims that measurements don't predict audibilty all that well. That begs the question of why does he go through the trouble of having expensive test equipment and publishing all those graphs in your original link?


This is not really relevant. He tells a story about meeting someone doing work in a non-audio related field, and then talks about how he makes his copper. He doesn't link them to a cable's sound.

I haven't had time to watch the videos.

--Andre

Watch the videos, they are fairly well done.

Like his papers, these videos don't explain how the stuff he's demonstrating is related to audio. There's some technobabble in them that's mostly wrong (reflections at audio frequencies?), but none of what he's showing is surprising at all to any electrical engineer. The important part --- how any of it is audible since most of the phenomena he's demonstrating is well above the human hearing range --- is missing.

The second video on shielding poses a logical conundrum for you since Cardas talks about how necessary shielding is in a cable, and that's the main problem with the Kimber Hero (and all of the classic Kimber interconnects) --- they have non-existent shielding. So is Cardas wrong, or do Kimbers suck?

--Andre

I was being generous with the "very strong aversion to" comment. And you are being generous with the smiley face. What have you done with DS-21?

Do people seriously pay $100/foot for copper cables?

How big of a market is this?

It's a big market but silver, silver/copper and various alloys are what's hot now.

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RIP JGH.

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--Andre