On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:45:33 +0100, Eeyore
wrote:



John Larkin wrote:

Zip cord is fine. People who can hear the difference in speaker
cables, or RCA interconnects, or power cords, are delusional.

I'd agree with the bit about RCA interconnects unless when driven from hi_Z
outputs like nutty tube amps.

Does anybody make specifically low-capacitance RCA cables?


However different gauges certainly of zip cord can make readily measureable
differences in frequency response at the load end.

Sure, too much resistance matters; use thicker wire, or turn up the
volume a little to compensate. It's feasible to make a speaker cable
with enough inductance to kick in a dB of loss at 20 KHz, but you have
to really try. And not many people would notice that dB.


Speakers aren't all resistive.


All the more reason that subtle things, like a little carbon in the
plastic, don't matter. Moving your head a few mm will change the
frequency response a lot more.

What a serious audiophile really needs is gold-plated head clamps.

John