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Post Subject: Wire is the simplest yet most complexPosted by drdna on: 6/29/2008
Thanks Bud!
We often underestimate the fundamentally very physical way that sound is produced in our stereo circuits in complex electromechanical ways. I agree with Peter Belt that circuits are affected in ways that can be more adequately explained by quantum physics, because -- well -- everything has some quantum physics in it, not just circuits.
In audio, everything is a compromise. Wire is like the least of the Gatekeepers in Kafka's story "Before the Law." Multistranding of wire creates its own problems as it solves others. But what we should not forget is that the Sound exists. Everything we do with out silver foil capacitors and copper Litz wires etc. is simply a way of tuning the circuit to allow the Sound to be transmitted and reproduced.
In this respect I do not feel that using wire of different types to balance a circuit is a form of compensation. Nor do I feel that there is an ideal wire, any more than there is an ideal resistor value. What should it be? 50 ohms? 1000 ohms? The question, put this way, seems rather silly. We use the value that is appropriate to make the circuit work. Wire, capacitors, electrical filters, etc. are no different.
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