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

[Magnus Danielson]

From: WeAreAs1 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [sdiy] "Time Winding" in Audio Cables ???
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:38:36 EDT
Message-ID: <1e4.3f4685a0.300416ac at aol.com>

> 
> 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.

Oh no.... <Sinking head into hands>

> 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.

I could but I will not bother, even if it is *SIMPLE*.

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

Hey, what if we guys get our hands on some OK cable (I say OK, not ultra-out of
the blue), have it labeled MKS+ and sell it with enought handwaveing at just
the right price below certain other brands, make a fortune and then we all meet
a few times a year at places like Tahiti, Seyshells etc. at the bars with
associated islands that we bought for some exchangemoney from the buissness.
Now, how about that?

No, it wouln't work, we just would not be able to degree on the name and
colour of our own airline fleet. :P

Cheers,
Magnus - it IS hot today, phew!