Audio Cables Science or Religion?

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Sean Oconnell

Audiophyte
Per Foot 10khz

BJC LC-1
cap: 14.5pF
ind: 0.2uH
ohm: 0.193

AR master series
cap: 26.6pF
ind: 0.25uH
ohm: 0.025

AR performance series
cap: 30pF
ind: 0.25uH
ohm: 0.059

AR master series comp
cap: 18.83pF
ind: 0.116uH
ohm: 0.00816

Wireworld luna
cap: 96pF
ind:0.2uH
ohm: 0.0773

Wireworld solstice
cap: 106pF
ind: 0.186uH
ohm: 0.071

Audioquest chicago
cap: 43pF
ind: 0.3uH
ohm: 0.038

Monster 300mk2
cap: 38pF
ind: 0.28uH
ohm: 0.04

Belkin pureav blue
cap: 40pF
ind: 0.25uH
ohm: 0.053

monster m1000 comp
cap: 20pF
ind: 0.17uH
ohm: 0.014

mogami 2534
cap: 55pf
ind: 0.145
ohm: 0.021
 
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Sean Oconnell

Audiophyte
Per Foot 10khz

auvio 12-2
cap: 16.7pF
ind: 0.228uH
ohm: 0.0034

NVX 12-2
cap: 19.7pF
ind: 0.21uH
ohm: 0.0031

knukonceptz 10-2 clear
cap: 25pF
ind: 0.2uH
ohm: 0.002

knukonconceptz 10-2 blue
cap: 20pF
ind: 0.19uH
ohm: 0.0016

stinger 10-2
cap: 18.25pF
ind: 0.17uH
ohm: 0.0015

monster 16-2 XP
cap: 14.75pF
ind: 0.22uH
ohm: 0.0095

belden 10-2
cap: 23pF
ind: 0.14uH
ohm: 0.0026
 
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highfigh

highfigh

Seriously, I have no life.
I'm glad to see you didn't use the cable believer vs. religion analogy in the article.

Religion at least makes an attempt to provide explanations and values for subjects not, or at least not yet, adequately accounted for by science. Religion provides at the very least a mythical and ethical framework for matters that are as of yet not entirely within our analytical comprehension. Science edges in on religion slowly.

By comparison, from an intellectual point of view, expensive cables are nothing but entirely trivial lies and nonsense that are totally inconsistent with what is already well-understood by science. "Cable belief," so to speak, is a useless doctrine other than for purposes of making money off of some folks who lack an adequate understanding of a very difficult subject (electronics) and who perhaps have a weakness for wanting the best equipment for a sense of status or, more sadly and innocently, just for the passion for having the best sound possible. It is, in short, an intellectual fraud.

It's nice to see the audioholics board getting a little more traffic -- it's a little harder to draw a crowd when your stock in trade is "pursuing the truth." :cool:
I prefer to use the word 'fraud' when a manufacturer makes claims that can't be verified but this isn't intellectual fraud- that would only be if someone tried to convince someone during a casual conversation. This is for commerce, so it's fraud.

When someone's lack of knowledge is met by the creativity, conviction and enthusiasm of the claims made by a person selling something, money will soon change hands and the buyer will usually stand by their decision because they don't want to believe they were gullible enough to believe something that's not true.

I have seen some claims about hospital grade receptacles from Hubbell that sound dramatically better than the ones that had been working until the time of replacement. Yeah?
 
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