[Boatanchors] Audiofoolishness!

[J Forster]

Actually, the proper question is 'when did you last hear 300 KHz'. Utter BS !!

-John



Mike Langner wrote:

> A friend of mine and fellow ham worked years ago in a home and car stereo
> store while he went back to school.  The "Huge Cable" folks would routinely
> come by and demonstrate the value of their mind-bogglingly expensive speaker
> cables.  You know the drill, oxygen-free copper, aligned magnetic domains,
> and + and - wires designed to handle the + and - better -- never mind that,
> of course, speakers receive AC, and we certainly hope, no DC.
>
> They'd put a controlled signal into a roll of their wire and a roll of thin
> wire. The rolls were about the same physical size.
>
> The 'scope on the output showed that indeed, their "Huge Cable" (euphemism
> for the monstrous company's real name) passed the test signals with
> significantly less waveform distortion.
>
> But this stereo store guy wasn't impressed.  He noted that the two coils of
> wire were the same size, so lots more copper loss and lots more inductance
> on the spool of thin wire.
>
> And the test signal?  A 100 kHz square wave.  Yep, the rounding of the
> corners with thin wire was noticeable.
>
> Great looking sales demonstration, sure, but when's the last time you or I
> have ever heard a 100 kHz square wave?
>
> "There's a sucker born every minute. . ."
>
> Mike/
> K5MGR
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