In the "King of Tubes" article, the EAR founder talks about his strive for excellence and his history of development. In the middle of the article, there was an interesting blurb:

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I commented to Tim that, although hi-fi can be a bullshit business, you can't bullshit pro audio customers.

"No. It's a tool to them, it's not a frivolity. And they're not going to suffer fools gladly. Home hi-fi, well, you can go back even 50 years and there's a lot of product that was cheesy, and came and went.

Kindly help me with the following question.

Why speaker cables are not shielded to block EMI/RFI just like interconnects?

Regards,

Haroon

I use a third speaker, in the rear, in my 2 channel set-up. I learned about it from one of Brian Eno's early albums. It's wired across the two "hot" terminals of the left and right amp outputs, so it extracts the "difference" signal from the stereo channels. Just one passive speaker; no extra amplification needed. It adds a little more depth and dimensionality to the overall sound. You can put a potentiometer in there to adjust level, but in my setup I don't, I just "set" the relative level by the distance and orientation of the speaker from the front speakers.

If you click on the Paradigm banner ad at the top of the forums...you get an image of a deformed red haired girl.

Just saying.

While I have heard many sound reproduction systems I have yet to hear one that truly recreates the sound of unamplified acoustic instruments playing or a voice singing in a real space.

I have experienced quite a few wonderfully enjoyable systems that capture a great deal of the sound and emotional impact, but none that sound truly real.

That is, if I close my eyes I don't even begin to believe that there are real instruments or a singer in front of me.