"John Larkin"

( snip drivel)

It's worse than the paper suggests. Characteristic impedance is the
apparent impedance at one end of an infinitely long hunk of
transmission line. For any but a lossless line, there's, well, loss.
And presumably what the The Compleat Audiophool cares about is what
gets to the speakers, not the load the amp sees.

Once the series and shunt resistance begin to have any significant
effect on characteristic impedance (ie, at low frequencies and for
very long lines) the signal that dribbles out of the far end is mostly
gone.

How many people use miles of speaker cable?

How many people can clearly hear attenuation effects that measure in
the parts-per-million? I bet I can name one.


** Anyone see any straw men hanging around ??

John is missing a few.



....... Phil