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Beware of differing amplifier sensitivities. Can/will cause timing errors.
The Master-Built line was designed by math and electromechanical methods on a computer (I''ll brace myself for the responses this will bring), not by listening tests. However, they do extensive listening comparison tests to verify their designs. Their goal is to eliminate any type of coloration and/or degradation that a cable can add to a musical signal. These distortions include excess resistance, inductance, capacitance, and signal loss created by impurities in the conductor and unwanted interaction of the signal with free radical electrons in the insulation covering the conductor.As Delphi has measured several hundred percentage points of differences in the ratio of capacitance, resistance, and inductance between various metals, winding geometries, and insulation properties, there is no surprise that these unwanted reactances HAVE TO affect the signal. Delphi's goal is to eliminate any interaction between the signal and the conduction path, which is an extremely difficult task. They use $4 million in test equipment (most companies have only a meter that costs a few hundred dollars) and Delphi has their own foundry which can formulate any type of conduction material you can dream up. They have their own apparatus used to insulate the conductors, and they control every single aspect of their products. This is quite a step up from the guys who home-brew their designs on their kitchen table and have some small shop build product for them. While many of the larger cable companies do have factories, they do very little theoretical research and are mainly vehicles to generate large profits for the investors. Delphi is nothing like that, there are no investors and the main thrust of their company is to supply NASA and the military with cable products that work in the field. Delphi has been working with NASA since the first space mission and has been an integral element to the success of modern satellite and space vehicle power systems. The cables need to transmit very low level signals with full integrity even with sun spot activity, so shielding is a big factor, as well as very low resistance and reactance so that the millivolt signals sent by the computer to low powered transmission systems will not be corrupted. Sounds very similar to the target spec of an audio cable, doesn't it?
