Hello Readers
Have you spent a lot of time thinking about cables? I mean really thinking about the whole cable design business?
Give this some thought as you look at your systems.
power cable
You have cables running from a fuse box to outlets. No outlet is designed for audio, lets be real. If they were it wouldn't look like a home wall outlet. The outlet then has this bulky plug going into it attached to a cable designed completely different than either the outlet or the plug. At the other end of the cable again you have a plug that has no audio matching character as the cable (it's a plug). This plug, plugs into another plug, and from there wire goes to a power supply. Does this make sense to you?
interconnects
You have a component where there are these wires and traces and audio parts, that don't look anything like each other and go from tiny to large, all being a part of the signal. Then you have these cables or boards feed a plug. This plug is nothing like the cable feeding it. On the outside of this component you have another plug. Again this plug is nothing like the cable inside the component and is attached to a cable called an interconnect, which is nothing like the plug. The cable runs to yet another plug, that is completely different in design than the cable. This proccess continues through to the amp output where you find...yes another plug. This plug looks nothing like the speaker wire used and again at the end of it's run, runs into yet another plug situation. Maybe bare wire or banana plug, but it is plugged into a binding post which yet even again looks nothing like the wire running to the speaker or the wire inside the speaker.
You get inside the speaker and what do you have? A bunch of parts trying to separate the signal into a bunch of divisions splitting the audio signal that you just spent all this time plugging together.
Now here's the question all the people looking at high end audio scratching their heads are asking.
Why did these people make something that requires all these missmatched parts and pieces and ends, and at the end of the ride still have to split the signal all over the place to try to get it to work. Where's the logic behind making an audio system that is obviously a bunch of parts that don't really fit together in a cohesive way?
Just think about this logically for a second. Do you really think you are making something "discrete" if you have all these different plugs and different sized conductors? If you call your system discrete, maybe we should ask the question, how many different discretes are we to have to make a stereo discrete? A stereo only needs power of course, one source, two amps (shared or separate), two speakers and the room. Discrete is not having ten input jacks on the back of a pre, a bunch of interconnects, a huge cross-over with multiple drivers and certainly not a line conditioner. Discrete is not the idea of more, but the concept of how to make the music match the system, with the least amount of interference possible.
Do you know what the physics definition of interference is? "the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or canceled"
finally
Do you really think that all these hoops your making your audio signal jump through are reinforcing a signal that can easily pass through a 32 gauge wire with plenty of power to spare? Go get a 32 gauge wire and lay it beside your audio connector and think about this for a second.
michael green
MGA/RoomTune
http://tuneland.techno-zone.net/
Hello Readers
Have you spent a lot of time thinking about cables? I mean really thinking about the whole cable design business?
Give this some thought as you look at your systems.
power cable
You have cables running from a fuse box to outlets. No outlet is designed for audio, lets be real. If they were it wouldn't look like a home wall outlet. The outlet then has this bulky plug going into it attached to a cable designed completely different than either the outlet or the plug. At the other end of the cable again you have a plug that has no audio matching character as the cable (it's a plug). This plug, plugs into another plug, and from there wire goes to a power supply. Does this make sense to you?
interconnects
You have a component where there are these wires and traces and audio parts, that don't look anything like each other and go from tiny to large, all being a part of the signal. Then you have these cables or boards feed a plug. This plug is nothing like the cable feeding it. On the outside of this component you have another plug. Again this plug is nothing like the cable inside the component and is attached to a cable called an interconnect, which is nothing like the plug. The cable runs to yet another plug, that is completely different in design than the cable. This proccess continues through to the amp output where you find...yes another plug. This plug looks nothing like the speaker wire used and again at the end of it's run, runs into yet another plug situation. Maybe bare wire or banana plug, but it is plugged into a binding post which yet even again looks nothing like the wire running to the speaker or the wire inside the speaker.
You get inside the speaker and what do you have? A bunch of parts trying to separate the signal into a bunch of divisions splitting the audio signal that you just spent all this time plugging together.
Now here's the question all the people looking at high end audio scratching their heads are asking.
Why did these people make something that requires all these missmatched parts and pieces and ends, and at the end of the ride still have to split the signal all over the place to try to get it to work. Where's the logic behind making an audio system that is obviously a bunch of parts that don't really fit together in a cohesive way?
Just think about this logically for a second. Do you really think you are making something "discrete" if you have all these different plugs and different sized conductors? If you call your system discrete, maybe we should ask the question, how many different discretes are we to have to make a stereo discrete? A stereo only needs power of course, one source, two amps (shared or separate), two speakers and the room. Discrete is not having ten input jacks on the back of a pre, a bunch of interconnects, a huge cross-over with multiple drivers and certainly not a line conditioner. Discrete is not the idea of more, but the concept of how to make the music match the system, with the least amount of interference possible.
Do you know what the physics definition of interference is? "the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or canceled"
finally
Do you really think that all these hoops your making your audio signal jump through are reinforcing a signal that can easily pass through a 32 gauge wire with plenty of power to spare? Go get a 32 gauge wire and lay it beside your audio connector and think about this for a second.
michael green
MGA/RoomTune
http://tuneland.techno-zone.net/