One thing I am very curious about with this DIY Cat 5 cables is that although it is very low inductance it is relatively high in capacitance. One has to be aware that not all amps are going to like this. But what I am more concerned about is won't this capacitance roll off high frequency? Is that why so many audiophiles like it, cause it rolls off the highs like tube amps of yorn?
You know Josh, you could be very much right.
Some years ago, after a VERY heated argument, just short of axes and knives flying around (very common among local audiophiles), a friend and I produced three amplifiers. Nominally they were the same, but one one difference:
1. No1 was decompensated, i.e. allowed to run as free as it could;
2. No2 was normally compensated, i.e. -3 dB at 1 Hz and 300 kHz, and
2. No3 was intentionally cutailed, with gentle roll-offs in the bass (-3 dB at 40 Hz) and treble (-1.5 dB at 20 kHz).
Well, nobody really liked No.1, so it was dumped. The SS crowed loved No.2, but the tubie guys said it was "too explicit, like cheap whore", whatever that means.
But No.3 was loved by the tube crowd, they said it was almost like real toobes (did they mean "boobs"?), but the SS guys said it was limited in bandwidth and lacked both real kick and sparkle.
Kind of corresponds with you question, doesn't it?
Cheers,
DVV
