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In the Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread)
Post Subject: An elevated subjectPosted by Paul S on: 6/29/2008
Well, the electricity suddenly switched gears today, and it entered into an entirely unknown level of cleanliness; and what do you know? The "cables" pretty much became a non-factor. I suppose this means that noise is A Very Big Issue most of the time, a notion exemplified/borne out by the Synopsis cable, which, as "cheap" as it was/is, obviously took real-world noise into account in its design; OR (more likely, perhaps), it was simply a design that through some stroke of dumb luck wound up doing a bang-up job compensating for real-world noise. Well, I have no problem with Luck, in the end; in fact, I hope to get lucky someday.
The main "problem" with the plain fact of the EMF is that it effectively puts cable design and construction back into the hands of well-equipped "experts", leaving the rest of us to await their latest and greatest while we try different pieces of flotsam to keep our wire/EMF generators off/away from potential baffles, sinks, and other errant sources of EMI.
Needless to say, the diy Litz wire is more about mundane "balancing" impedance, resistance and inductance than it is about 2" EMF; in other words, it's closer to drinking the Scotch than shooting it into "di-electric" fluid reservoirs.
Do we all remember Peter Belt? How about Doug Moorecroft? Bob Fulton? All folks who, however otherwise misguided, were hyper-vigilant about EMF and "reflections", etc. Bud P, please feel free to chime in about "reflections", or whatever it is you think warrants close attention to cable length.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site