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What the heck!
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I was looking through the Audiogon site and found this little tid bit in an add for a set of speakers.

"Monster Cable High Resolution Precision Stranded "Time Correct" Speaker Cable"

What the heck!


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Rick, I'm sure JohnK will be along shortly to explain, but my understanding is that the speed of sound is much slower than the speed of the electrical current running through the cables. Consequently, if you don't put up little traffic lights in the cable every so often, then the signals reach your speaker before you are able to hear them.

It's all very simple, actually. It is probably only relevant if your amplifer goes more than 88 mph and your speakers' throughput is less than 120 gallons/hour. In addition, those redbook CD's with the green marker and blue laser really confuse the traffic patterns.

Combined with the fact that the CD sampling rate is 44.1kHz but most speakers only reproduce up to about 20kHz, and I'd think the necessity of time correction is obvious.

M80 owners. Sheesh.




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Tom, you're on a roll today! (In 3 different threads!) Must have ate your Wheaties this morning!


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Shawn, the three-legged stool of cholesterol health is oatmeal, cranberries and bourbon. I typically have the first two for breakfast. Typically.


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Quote:


I was looking through the Audiogon site and found this little tid bit in an add for a set of speakers.

"Monster Cable High Resolution Precision Stranded "Time Correct" Speaker Cable"

What the heck!




I actually linked to those in Randy's thread when he was having his static issue with the new Emotiva. Sounded like another marketing gimmick to me.


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Nah, with a trustworthy name like Monster and with a product as sensitive as cables, it's definitely for real. Definitely.


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I just have a very hard time believing that anyone no matter how gullible would believe this crap.


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But their ears! They trust them! How could you not trust someone's ears? How DARE you?!

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It leaves me shaking my head in disgust.


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Wid #157919 02/08/07 09:20 PM
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I remember, many MANY moons ago - long before I was an Audioholic, I had a big box salesman give me the "time alignment" spiel. I knew little about electronics, less about speaker cable theory, and my response was, "How does the cable know which signal to speed up and which to slow down?" The salesman's mouth opened and closed a few times as he tried to come up with an answer before he just turned and left.


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