"Iain Churches" wrote in message
i.fi...

I talked on the phone with a chap today who
told me he had a very good idea for a high-end
loudspeaker cable.

Isn't "HighEnd Speaker Cable" synonymous with "Scam"?

No doubt right down your alley, Iain.

It was based upon some thick twin co-axial with
two separate shields. He had then connected
the screen of the left wire to the inner of the right
wire, and the inner of the left wire to the screen
of the right wire.

Since each cable has two screens, and which screen to use is not stated, the
instructions are gibberish. So is the engineering.

He made a cable like this for
both channels, and inserted it onto a 12mm
armoured hose-pipe, with Raychem 15mm shrink
sleeving at each end and "gold" terminals bought
from a car audio shop. He added, "I have found
there are great sonic advantages in this method"

No doubt based on a sighted evalution.

There followed a long silence, and I, not knowing
quite what to say, replied: "Hmm! Interesting!
You might have something there. You
should make a quantity. It might sell well".

He replied: "I have. It does. At Euro 25 a metre!"

Hey, people are also buying small quantities of tubed equipment. Go figure!