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...sorry you feel that I am, but I earlier gave my best guesstimate at what such testing would entail
And I couldn't care less as to how such a measurement is carried out as much as what to measure. You continue to harp on "they can't possibly know all the ways the wire is going to be used" and that is irrelevant for my question. You don't have to know how someone uses a rope in order to measure it's tensile strength. Neither do you have to know how a wire is used in order to measure it's characteristics, either. You have to identify a metric and quantify it. The analysis of the results is then used afterwards for specific application suitability.

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Are the wires themselves rated for such use?..Can they handle the voltage and current for such an application?
12/3 and 14/3 is quite sufficient to handle the current needs of most audio amplifiers.

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Ahhh...the wonderful gray area of audiophilia!!! Who has identified these "considerations"?
The answer would be every single cable manufacturer who produces shielded audio wires. That would pretty much be all of them.

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How have they tested and proven their product's "superiority" in any given respect...Use and listening tests?
Now it's time for me to throw the same irrelevant, "how can I possibly know what Belden and others are thinking in their product offerings" line to you. THERE IS A REASON and it is not based on LCR metrics.

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..Sorry, too many variables, ranging from the myriad number of potential gear combinations, to the type and strength of "interference"... NO ONE can possibly test for every scenario, not Belden and certainly these smaller aftermarket specialists...Are you the R&D?...Great if you feel like doin' it...
Forget all that. Bruce (who still hasn't responded) and others continue to harp the simplistic tune that LCR parameters are all that is relevant to the audibility of cables. OBVIOUSLY, that is not the case. Virtually ALL microphone cable, for example, is shielded and LCR metrics don't quantify any aspect of that facet of its design.

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