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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Re: Connecting Cables
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Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 15:00:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  5 15:00:41 1984
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Again, I'd like someone out there to explain to me why super-duper
connect cables should make a diff for audio applications.  It  would
seem as if the main thing one is doing when going from cheap to expensive
cables is lowering the resistance, both within the cable and at the
connections (if one is using gold-plated connections).  I don't see 
why this miniscule change in resistance should make any difference. 
(This refers to line-level signals in coax cable, as did previous news
articles.)

Enough people I know have made the claim that expensive cables *do* 
make a difference -- sometimes a dramatic difference is claimed -- that
I guess I believe it (though I've never tried this in my own system);
it's just that I have no idea *why* it should be so.  Does anyone out
there know?

{philabs,cmcl2!rocky2}!cubsvax!peters            Dr. Peter S. Shenkin 
Dept of Biol. Sci.;  Columbia Univ.;  New York, N. Y.  10027;  212-280-5517