Nanotube Cables

[3db]

I wonder how long it will take the cable/interconnect companies to starting milking the audiophools out of their money once the techonolgy has matured?

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38615/?ref=rss

 

[highfigh]

What happens if the "cable" is bent?

 

[Rickster71]

What happens if the "cable" is bent?

Initially I wondered the same thing.
I saw pictures of it in one of my continuing ed classes, they tie it in a knot to make the connections.
NASA funded it, so it will gradually filter down to us the same way we got Tang.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I wonder how long it will take the cable/interconnect companies to starting milking the audiophools out of their money once the techonolgy has matured?

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38615/?ref=rss

Yep, these will give us that elusive nano dynamics that we have been missing from music.

 

[bikdav]

Nanotube Cables? I'm very skeptical about them.

 

[markw]

Nano nano. What, are they from Ork?

"Making lightweight, efficient carbon nanotube wiring as conductive as copper has been a goal of nanotechnologists since the 1980s."

Now, if they can make them MORE conductive than copper, or silver, which is a bit more conductive than copper, we'll see some enterprising company offer them to the udiophile market, but at what cost?

Scratch that. It won't matter. Look what some are willing to pay now.

 

[Adam]

News at 11 - Meth heads in midtown tear out $5k worth of carbon nanotube cables from a city construction project. More after the break...

 

[Rickster71]

In our lifetimes we may see it on the next space shuttle and military jets, then later maybe on commercial airlines.

 

[3db]

In our lifetimes we may see it on the next space shuttle and military jets, then later maybe on commercial airlines.

Oh wow. You're old.

 

[Rickster71]

Oh wow. You're old.

Ouch!

Since it took so long for the D ick Tracy Wrist Radio...
http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm

 

[3db]

Ouch!

Since it took so long for the D ick Tracy Wrist Radio...
http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm

My gut feeling is that I'm in teh same generation as you and I expect to see the same as you on nanotubes.

 

[bikdav]

News at 11 - Meth heads in midtown tear out $5k worth of carbon nanotube cables from a city construction project. More after the break...

U got me LOL on this 1.

 

[highfigh]

Ouch!

Since it took so long for the D ick Tracy Wrist Radio...
http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/wrist_radio.htm

Six, two and even- over and out.

 

[Pyrrho]

I wonder how long it will take the cable/interconnect companies to starting milking the audiophools out of their money once the techonolgy has matured?

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38615/?ref=rss

Yep, these will give us that elusive nano dynamics that we have been missing from music.

Well, now we know why all of our systems fail to perfectly recreate the original sound that was created. How could they, without the nano dynamics?


As for the original question, they will do it as soon as they get their hands on the new cables. And they will price the cables to make a nice profit as well.

Here is the start of the sales pitch:

They outperform copper on a metric called current density, which means they should be able to carry more electricity over longer distances without losing energy to heat—a problem with today's electrical grid, and with computer chips. And because they're made of carbon, not metal, they don't corrode.​

It will, of course, be reworded to refer to audio, and will say something about transferring more of the signal, instead of some of it being lost in the wire and generating heat. How can you stand to only listen to part of the signal that is coming out of your source, and only part of the signal that is being sent to your speakers? This will be irresistible "reasoning" to fools.

And after suckering people into buying them, there is an ingenious way to sell yet another new set of cables in just a few more years:

Though the cables are now good enough to begin thinking seriously about commercial applications, Ajayan wants to make them even better. Ajayan notes that, so far, they've only tested the double-walled cables' ability to carry alternating current. Electricity is transmitted over long distances in the form of alternating current. A separate goal, Ajayan says, is to make the cables even more conductive than copper. One way to do this is to make workable cables from single-walled carbon nanotubes, which are inherently more conductive, but have been difficult to spin into fibers.​

There are going to be a lot of magic wire believers who are going to be upgrading their cables in the near future.

 

[skizzerflake]

...
There are going to be a lot of magic wire believers who are going to be upgrading their cables in the near future.

I'll be on the list to talk to the customers. After they buy nanotubes for Defense Dept prices, they should be good marks for some real estate I'd like to sell.

 

[Pyrrho]

I'll be on the list to talk to the customers. After they buy nanotubes for Defense Dept prices, they should be good marks for some real estate I'd like to sell.

Are Defense Department prices more than $21,000 for 3 meters of cable?

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/11/most-expensive-speaker-cable-world-audioquest-audiophile/

Here are some more examples, some of which are more money, though they don't specify length:

http://most-expensive.net/audio-cables

Here are some more, some with lengths specified, such as 2m pair of interconnects for $37,000 and a 2.5m set of speaker cables for $45,800:

http://www.stereophile.com/ces2009/fabled_cables_in_close_relation/index.html