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Originally Posted by ariess
Well this seems to be getting off topic. One can always say this argument (cables) is the same as that argument (flat Earth) but saying that doesn’t make it so. And in this case I think the analogy is bad. The shape of the Earth is trivial to observe, it’s taught in schools with as much controversy as the A,B,C’s. In contrast, the debate about cables is really about value (as most things in the audiophile realm), as in, are high end cables worth the cost? That is a fair debate and it’s subjective. (I don’t think many debate cables in an objective way as in whether the laws of physics tell us that the signal passing through any and all cable types cannot be altered, delayed, garbled, dispersed, smeared or augmented by interference). Cables can do a better or worse job at ideal transmission, just depends on whether it’s worth paying what makers ask for what they deliver.
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The difference between cables in lengths typically used for audiophile purpose and barring any EMF or RFI induced pollution can and do show differences on the oscilloscope. Problem is, those parameter that can be observed are usually showing up way beyond and way too high in frequency to be of any significance to human ears or even audio circuits in the analog domain. Perhaps even too high for digital domain. It’s in the MHz region. As the lengths increase, capacitance, inductance and even resistance starts to alter the signal ever so slightly.