inmypjs

inmypjs

Junior Audioholic
<font color='#000000'>Are their products and &quot;oval&quot; technology really that good as they claim?  The design team (owners) are actually knowledgeable engineers.  They even have white papers for their design and they have done consulting work with giants like Motorola and Ford Motors.


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Proof of Better Cable Design (Oval cable)

I am curious about their Oval speaker cables:

Oval Series

Or is this another form of &quot;Snake oil&quot;?</font>
 
Rip Van Woofer

Rip Van Woofer

Audioholic General
<font color='#000000'>A &quot;white paper&quot; is not necessarily a scientific or technical document. It might just be a marketing piece in a lab coat. Has it been previously published in a recognized peer-reviewed journal, or is it at least based on sources that have been published thus? Are the sources cited?

Things like skin effect and characteristic impedance are only concerns at radio frequencies (skin effect might have some very slight bearing at the highest audio frequencies, but even this is controversial -- Gene might take issue with me here!).

For that matter, are their claims re: their clients true? I can claim to have a PhD in physics from MIT on my Website* but how many of you would check up on it? For that matter, would MIT?

It is common for cable vendors to cite phenomena that are valid concerns for cable when used as RF transmission lines or for high-speed data transmission but that have no bearing on audio.

Conclusion: clever snake oil, but snake oil nonetheless. Especially at their prices!

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*I don't; however, I was nominated for a Nobel Prize** but didn't win. Boy, you wouldn't believe the politics!
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**Given annually hereabouts by a guy named Fred Nobel for the best Christmas light display***.
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***For all you know, I coulda made that up, too.</font>
 
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