On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:23:02 GMT, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:

anyone can easily understand that
comparing 12AWG cable to 24 AWG over long runs is not a reasonable
test. OTOH, I have already compared fifteen feet of Naim NACA5,
probably the most inductive speaker cable you can buy, to an ultra-low
inductance design into my own 3-ohm speakers. There was a *measured*
difference of more than 1dB at 20kHz, but no *audible* difference
whatever.

You're just whining and crying for no apparent reason. What, do *you*
think that Kimber 'Black Pearl' has any value ina domestic hi-fi
system? If so, why?

**I can't find Black Pearl amongst their speaker cable listing. Is it a very
old, or a very new product? What is the inductance of the cable?

It's been around for 4 or 5 years, costs £1,000 a foot (yes, a grand a
foot!), and has very low inductance. If you're about to suggest that
fifty feet of it would sound different from fifty feet of 12 AWG
zipcord when driving Quads, I wouldn't necessairily argue - but that's
hardly the point.

As often noted, any fool can come up with an unrealistic cable to
'cheat' the test, which is why the level-matching requrement exists.
This isn't about EE 101, it's about the bull**** claims of Kimber,
Transparent, Cardas, MIT et al.

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering