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In Reply to: Re: Jon Risch, measuring interconnects question posted by T2 on January 26, 2000 at 20:31:55:
You do not seem to be familiar with my background. I do not even come close to stating that measuring capacitance or inductance will show anyone the way to audio nirvana. I have conducted literally hundreds of controlled listening tests, the results of which I make available in my DIY Interconnect and DIY Speaker Cable notes.
See http://members.xoom.com/Jon_Risch/
I also have written an AES paper on subjective listening test methods, and would be the first to state that measurements are secondary to what a component sounds like.What I heard when I was a novice engineer with respect to audio cables prompted me to investigate them, both in terms of measurements AND listening tests. Most good audio related engineers would tell you that they would seek to correlate any measurements with the subjective impressions, and vice versa.
In the most gross of terms, using enough sophisticated measurements, I could tell you which cables out of a batch of them would be more likely to sound better than others, but it would only be a sorting of the corsest kind. I tried to indicate this above, in that simple measurements of the capacitance and inductance of audio cables would not provide very much information at all in terms of which ones were better than others. Lower capacitance is NOT necessarily better, because the cap meter can not determine the QUALITY of the capacitance. Foamed polyurethane measures very low C, but sounds horrible.
Jon Risch
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