[sdiy] "Time Winding" in Audio Cables ???

[Glen]

At 11:16 AM 7/11/2005, Richard Wentk wrote:

>I always use mains power cable, which has *more* than enough cross section 
>for accurate audio. In fact I challenge anyone to tell the difference 
>between Monster Cable (tm), any other specialist cable, and cooker cable 
>in a double blind test.

Just to make sure we are all talking about the same thing, the original 
discussion was primarily centered on shielded audio cables, not speaker 
cable, or AC power cable. Your cooker cable is what you use for unshielded 
speaker cable, correct? For speaker cabling, I would tend to agree that 
using a sufficiently large stranded conductor should be all that is 
required to achieve excellent sound.

Shielded cables on the other hand, they do seem to have more complications. 
I don't know if the original comments were made with high impedance or low 
impedance in mind. High impedance is usually more of a challenge, but even 
with that, I still don't think that my bass is going to arrive perceptibly 
later than my treble -- at least not because the electrical signal passed 
through 1 or 2 meters of shielded cable.  :)

Maybe I should start recording and selling impulse response profiles of 
exotic audiophile cables?  ;)

I'm sure that some of the people using convolution processors would love to 
be able to simulate any brand of interconnect wiring they wanted, whenever 
they wanted.  :)

For the record, what is everyone's favorite type of shielded cable, 
available in bulk, for me to make my audio cables with? I'd like to hear 
suggestions for both balanced and unbalanced applications. Is picking the 
lowest capacitance and the highest amount of shielding the 2 most important 
things to consider when building your own high quality cables? I've heard 
good things about Mogami. Is there any other brand I should consider for 
bulk audio cable?


thanks,
Glen