Quote Originally Posted by hermanv
My case:
1. Several people have repeatedly "passed" the double blind cable listening tests. Either they are psychic or there is in fact an audible difference between cables. Once any one person can do this repeatedly the argument that there is no difference is dead.
Is this published? Has it been independantly verified?

2. The mathematics of reactance calculations for cables that are a meter or so long and conventionally constructed show that the reactance components are tiny with respect to the audio band and the circuit impedances, this makes the reactance components of a cable extremely unlikely to cause the "cable's sound signature" under discussion.
Then you probably need to look for another variable outside the cable.

3. I have thrown away nothing of engineering knowledge; I have only said that the RLC model by itself does explain how cables work. (Example: it is possible to build a cable with identical RLC values to your twin lead example that is effectively worthless for transmitting RF signals.)
This is just another strawman. We aren't talking about rf cables.

In other words there is a fact that cables sound different.
Where? Citation of said fact, please.

There is a second fact that RLC does not seem to explain why they sound different. So the simple fact is that most people, and possibly no one, knows what causes the cable effect. I say most, because as I have said in other posts, there seem to be a small number of cable companies (examples like Kimber and WireWorld) whose cables get high ratings at many different price points. Even though they are built of different things someone there knows how to get good performance out of quite different ingredients.
Again, you should then suspect a variabe outside the cable. as for the commercial cable companies, they are in business to make money, the more, the better. Marketing rules the roost when it comes to maximizing profits.

So you seem to be saying that in spite of absolute proof that cables do sound different....
Where is your proof?

As an electronic engineer I was a powerful skeptic because I did the math. I concluded that a cable sound signature was an extremely unlikely phenomenon, but I listened and became instantly convinced that the RLC model couldn't begin to explain the differences I heard.
Have the results been published, reviewed and verified independantly?

-Bruce