No it's not. IMO, he should be given at least a time out for repeatedly being a d#$%. He was warned once. That's enough. As far as I can tell, AC isn't the place to make rude comments without even attempting to say anything related to the thread.
Hey, are you warming up for the World Cup by asking for yellow and red cards?!
Look, if you are going to complain about someone else's lack of civility, it undermines your case when you cannot form the complaint without having to use "#$%" to insult the guy who is offending you. Alas, he did not even call you any names, just a quick quip about how he did not see anything worthwhile in your post. If that level of unpoliteness got people banned, we might as well burn our routers and our modems, we're all done.
I would not want either one of you to go away, and I'm sure you have something worthwhile to contribute. I hope you work on that tendency to substitute epithets for our audiocircle handles, though.
Now back to the topic at hand. The very parameters that you mention, RLC, are not mentioned in the vast majority of magic cable ads that I see either on audiogon or elsewhere. I do not see something like "look, our cable is 83% less resistive than the competition!". R, L, and C barely draw any attention. Instead, we get glowing descriptions about the, say, power cord giving the system more body, more warmth, more brightness (sometimes all at once!)...
Just for confirmation, I just went to a site that had, alas, been recommended by some guy on audiogon some months ago. I quickly set up a quote for a 10-ft pair of speaker wires: $1180. No mention of R, C, or L WHATSOEVER on that page, but they're all set to take my $1180. (URL of website ommitted because we are in another manufacturer's circle. PM me if you want to know what it is).
In this thread, some of us have actually mentioned the unit of capacitance and placed an integer right before it. The collection of data continues!
So tell us about how your search for the proper RLC cable came to a happy end that one time. Really, if you got a product that will improve our systems and those parameters show it will, you want us to know about it, surely!
I am sad to say that the speaker wires that I got in my system do not have those specs either. All I know is that it is a dual strand of 14 gauge wire, apparently of unusually high quality copper. Oh well! I think it sounds great, but who knows, maybe the cable sounds great only because of the Ultra 550 and the Ohm Walsh pair on the ends of it.
