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

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In a message dated 7/11/05 7:56:08 AM, mclilith at charter.net writes:

<< On a totally separate forum, I have a person who has been to all the 
Monster Cable(tm) sales seminars telling me that low frequencies travel 
through an audio cable more slowly than the high frequencies. Is this 
remotely true? >>

Well, if you send a low-frequency sound down your cable -- say, 100Hz sine 
wave, it will take one second for all 100 of those cycles to get to your 
destination.  If you send a 1kHz sine wave down the cable, the same 100 cycles will 
take only one tenth of a second to arrive.  Putting it another way, you can 
send 10 times as many 1kHz cycles down the cable in the same time that it takes 
to send just one 100Hz cycle down that cable.  And check this:  10kHz cycles 
arrive at a blistering 1000 TIMES FASTER RATE!!!  Hey, don't just take my word 
for it, hook up your scope.. er, I mean your frequency counter and see for 
yourself!  Go ahead and count how many 10kHz cycles come down that cable in one 
hour, and you'll never again make the unenlightend assertion that low 
frequencies travel at the same spee... ummm, rate.  I'm sure that Magnus can even quote 
a mathematical formula to back this up, if he could only be bothered to play 
along with my very bad joke.

Maybe that's what the very expensive cable people are talking about.

Michael Bacich