C-T, your speakers are beautiful.
For those wondering... I'll caution you - if you click the link below it could lead you down a road that will cost $$$, but you may also like it.
If you want more, after this video... find the one where he makes wire vibrate like guitar strings while simulating A/C flowing thru it.
Resonances / Timing / Noise...
https://youtu.be/9uhobsHs-_o
Exactly right, jmimac351
And there you have a clear example with DATA depicting the importance of elevating the cables off the floor and also the influence the composition that the dielectric can have on the signal. Well done, George!
With respect to the electromagnetic wave that George Cardas was referring to: many folks think that the signal flows through the conductor like marbles rolling in a tube or water flowing through a hose. This is
not what happens.
The signal is an
electromagnetic wave that propagates along the conductor. Moreover, there are TWO EM waves that propagate along the conductor: a vertical longitudinal wave, and a horizontal transverse wave, as shown here:
And, that's what George was effectively showing in his demo using the 'scope: That the
signal DOES NOT flow through the conductor like water in a hose or marbles in a tube; this is not what is occurring with respect to the
physics of electromagnetic signal transduction.
And here's something that most folks don't know: the SIGNAL is actually the red TRANSVERSE wave, the blue longitudinal EM wave shown above is a NOISE FACTOR* (*-and this is what the TAP devices, Trans-Axial Polarizer, in Shunyata signal cables are designed to remove)
Moreover, the cable's audio quality is also very susceptible to vibration imparted to the cable's dielectric (insulation) from resting on the floor. Remember: drywall resonates at 70Hz. This vibration couples to the floor and causes noise imparted to the cable dielectric, which adds NOISE to the signal EM wave. This noise can is oftern characterized by listeners as "blur and slur". This is why having your speaker cables resting on the floor imparts noise to the signal, and has a clearly discernible negative impact on audio quality.
Using cable elevators e.g. the ones I linked to, or the wooden Cardas cable elevators shown in George's video will remove that blur and slur because it removes that floor-borne vibration imparted to the cable dielectric. This is exactly what George was demonstrating WITH DATA on the oscilloscope.
Again...it's
physics at the end of the day. The goal here is to remove as much NOISE as possible to maximize the quality of the SIGNAL.
jmimac351, thanks again for posting the link to George's video. This was very informative. Cheers.
