Quote Originally Posted by E-Stat
Exactly. There are a solution.
In my best Paul Reiser voice, "This is what I'm saying".
Yes. Lower still.
That would be cheaper than buying some nice cables? Not sure copper everywhere would match the room decor, either.
Edit:
If you recall, I responded to Kex' assertion that there's "measurable physics" behind all of this. Fine. What's the metric for this?
rw
...eh?

Let's see if I can clarify...Given the fact that more and more audio gear is processor controlled and the garbage is from within (or at least within proximity), how would interconnecting wiring reduce or eliminate it?

Coax (and even twisted pair) by it's very nature has noise rejection/signal coherence as it's purpose...granted, some are better than others in this regard...combo foil and braid sheilding>simple foils, etc...Balanced connections...The path of least resistance for RFI/EMI isn't the wiring.

If you want to protect the upper, upper-harmonics of the music from the trickle-down sub-harmonics of noise, what do you do? Truncating the FR of the signal is self-defeating...particularly if your gear is of ultra-wideband design...How do you propose to have a passive device (namely: wire) pick and choose what musical harmonics it will allow and what noise mixed into that particular affected bandwidth it will discard...it's like EQing an old noisy 78...you can eliminate most of the snap, crackle and pop...unfortunately some of the top-end of the performance will be going along for the ride...better methods via a digitzed slice-and-dice have produced remarkable results, but the process is hardly passive by anyone's measure. Wire can do that? Sorry, I can't see that as a reasonable expectation.

Re: "...lower still..." I'll assume there is legitimate documentation available...If I missed it would you be so kind to enlighten me as to it's whereabouts.

Re: Faraday room or simply a cage for the gear...aluminum foil, wire cloth, screenining...just about any conductive material installed within the walls during the construction of a HT room should suffice in this regard...just be sure it's well-grounded...even so there's still that nasty commercial AC to contend with.

Re: "...metrics..." LCRs seem a good place to start...after all it's only wire and in just about any concieveable configuration, any wire-simple, conductive material has limits as to what it can and can't do. I would imagine the wire wizards start with them...what all-encompassing magic metric have they devised, discovered or blundered upon in their never ending research? Do they have charts and graphs? Why don't they then reveal their numbers/parameters and put the debate to rest...I mean it would be in their own best interests, wouldn't it?

jimHJJ(...then again, perhaps not...)