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

[Richard Wentk]

At 20:30 20/07/2005, Cornutt, David K wrote:

>So what you're really saying is, that if one has a *proper*
>(read: suitably expensive) cable, there would be no dispersion
>and the 10 Hz cycles would arrive at the 1000 Hz rate.  Or,
>to put it even better, since a *proper* cable should have
>plenty of frequency response headroom, both the 10 Hz cycles
>and the 1000 Hz cycles should be arriving at a 1 MHz rate,
>vastly improving the response time of the whole system.

Indeed. With negative group delay or phase dispersion, it becomes possible 
for the signal to arrive at the speaker *before it has left the amplifier*.

With a long enough cable you can actually hear music that won't be recorded 
till 2012.

Now - isn't that worth $5000 of anyone's money?

Richard