Quote Originally Posted by Thomas_A
their claims are that for loudspeaker cable, inductance and resistance are the most important parameters. Nothing more fancy than that. Capacitance is more important for interconnects.
Ah. It would be interesting to see their documentation showing how they actually tested that premise...I find that at 4 and 8 ohm impedances, measurement of voltage, current, and phase relations is not an easy one to do accurately. So, I would believe that the guys at most of the cable companies don't know how to do it correctly.

Quote Originally Posted by Thomas_A
Even if the "worst" cables of normal length show only 0.5 dB drop or so for 20 kHz due to high inductance it can be a good idea to have the values as low as possible. It's not uncommon with 0.5 dB deviations at 20 kHz from a flat response from many amps and CD players. It is thus possible that different combinations of CD players, amps and cables can reach a total difference of a couple of dB at 20 kHz, and thus display audible differences lower down in frequency.
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I would agree, keeping inductance as low as practical is probably good..

I'm at the moment, reviewing a paper where the researcher is showing test results that are rather amazing...human perception capability in the 1.5 to 2 MICRO-second realm. (Thanks, Mtry)

If that is in fact an actual human capability, then inductance may indeed be a big player.

Cheers, John