In Reply to: The distinction is between RF noise and audio band noise. posted by Al Sekela on June 1, 2008 at 14:44:03:
HowdyPerhaps I misunderstood you post.
I saw: "To extract every bit of detail (pun intended) from a well-recorded Redbook CD, you need cables that are both shielded and damped." which seemed pretty unambiguous.
But perhaps you meant it to be read with your subject: "Only for lower-resolution systems to extract every bit of detail (pun intended) from a well-recorded Redbook CD, you need cables that are both shielded and damped."
Anyway, yes, I understand the distinction you are making between RF noise and audio band noise and I also understand a lot of the many ways they interact in practical systems. However I still stand by my statement that there are well designed systems that aren't nearly so twitchy as apparently many posters here are subject too.
In fact one might state: "if you can't hear how a shield deleteriously affects your audio your system isn't very revealing" I know that this isn't really true in general but it's at least as true for many systems I know as my reading of your first post.
-Ted
P.S. Perhaps if I get down your way I visit you, Bart and/or some of your friends.
Edits: 06/01/08
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Follow Ups
- RE: The distinction is between RF noise and audio band noise. - Ted Smith 20:14:00 06/01/08 (12)
- No, you read me correctly the first time. - Al Sekela 21:35:33 06/01/08 (11)
- OK, so how do you damp a shield? - robfoto@sbcglobal.net 21:46:38 06/05/08 (4)
- You extract energy from the electric or magnetic fields. - Al Sekela 08:38:51 06/06/08 (3)
- Carbon? - robfoto@sbcglobal.net 18:05:26 06/11/08 (1)
- RE: Carbon? - Ted Smith 18:46:38 06/11/08 (0)
- Tease! :-)) nt - andyr 03:04:12 06/07/08 (0)
- Also... - E-Stat 10:07:15 06/03/08 (1)
- Exactly. - Al Sekela 13:28:47 06/03/08 (0)
- :) - Ted Smith 22:47:22 06/01/08 (3)
- Properly-built shielded cables for audio - Al Sekela 09:21:10 06/02/08 (2)
- RE: Properly-built shielded cables for audio - Ted Smith 09:36:23 06/02/08 (1)
- No, sorry. (nt) - Al Sekela 13:57:24 06/05/08 (0)