ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Non-US Electrical Systems & Trades Hmm......Psychobabble!

Well of course the hi-fi sounds better when plugged into a hospital grade socket.

You don't have the problem of the plug falling out of the socket every so often.

I remember reading some years ago in one of the "audiophile" magazines where they did a blind cabling test on some "experts" in the field. It was HILARIOUS! Good ol' zip cord sounded better than 750 KC mil ultra-low-oxygen $$$$$.$$/foot audio-grade speaker cable! I still crack up laughing when I think about that article!

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[This message has been edited by Sir Arcsalot (edited 11-20-2004).]

There is only one way I can think of in which laying the speaker cables on the floor would have an effect on the sound. That's if the floor were metal, as you'd then have extra capacitance on the speaker line, which could attenuate the higher frequencies.

H-O-W-E-V-E-R....

You'd need many, many yards of cable laying on said metal floor to achieve any sort of capacitance value high enough to have any noticeable effect.

Two plates an inch square spaced 1 mil apart with an air dielectric result in a capacitance of around 225 picofarads. I'm not going to bother to work out what the capacitance would be on a typical run of a few yards, but it would certainly not be high enough to be of any significance when driven by the low-impedance output of the amplifier.

All of which is academic for those with normal wooden floors anyway.

LOL @ Paul....again!

I do use OFC cables on my system, and there was a noticeable improvement in the bottom end. My brother changed them without my knowing and I commented on it some days later as I had to consistently reduce the bass settings on the amp.

I listen to a lot of organ music ( don't laugh ) which is notorious for reproductive problems ( continue not to laugh ) especially at the lower end... ( ok now you can laugh )

I now have a set of OFC cables... How would your obvious knowledge of such things explain the presence of oxygen to affect conductive properties, or is it just an 'impurity'?