I'm not a molecular physicist..

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Wonder if this article holds any merit?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080821-watching-circuits-fail-observing-electromagnetic-migration.html

 

[Audioholics]

asphinctersayswhat?

 

[3db]

asphinctersayswhat?

That was my feeling too

 

[Adam]

An interesting article. I must have paid some attention in school (and retained some of it) because it made sense to me.

My prediction: watch for "highly resistant to electromagnetic migration" claims from speaker wire manufacturers in the near future.

 

[gus6464]

An interesting article. I must have paid some attention in school (and retained some of it) because it made sense to me.

My prediction: watch for "highly resistant to electromagnetic migration" claims from speaker wire manufacturers in the near future.

Let's beat them all to the punch and sells a speaker wire that claims just that!

 

[Adam]

Let's beat them all to the punch and sells a speaker wire that claims just that!

Now THERE is a great idea!

 

[10010011]

The culprit is often electromagnetic (EM) migration slowly degrading the interconnects

EM is a valid phenomenon, ESD can cause EM and EM is the reason over clocked CPU's and other chips fail prematurely.

But in this case "interconnects" is probably the tiny wires inside an integrated circuit that connect the die to the pins, or internal dies to each other.

This has nothing to do with your audio / video interconnects.

 

[3db]

EM is a valid phenomenon, ESD can cause EM and EM is the reason over clocked CPU's and other chips fail prematurely.

But in this case "interconnects" is probably the tiny wires inside an integrated circuit that connect the die to the pins, or internal dies to each other.

This has nothing to do with your audio / video interconnects.

Very good point. That article from that standpoint makes perfect sense to me now. I read it from the paradigm of audio/video interconnects and not chip dies. Thanks man.!!

 

[rnatalli]

Let's beat them all to the punch and sells a speaker wire that claims just that!

That's awesome!

 

[jamie2112]

Let's beat them all to the punch and sells a speaker wire that claims just that!

I'm in what could we call it? Monstrosity A/V cable............Hey it doesn't say monster.......