Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cubsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!rocky2!cubsvax!peters From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Re: Connecting Cables Message-ID: <254@cubsvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 15:00:41 EDT Article-I.D.: cubsvax.254 Posted: Sun Aug 5 15:00:41 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:04:54 EDT References: <98@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Columbia Univ Biology, New York City Lines: 17 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