Audio Cable Snake Oil

Ps audio copper magazine has an excellent series of articles on audio cables by garen galeis of belden.

Audio cable snake oil.

Many of these products exist on the fringe of believability and before long almost inevitably the ubiquitous term snake oil is applied. By gene dellasala april 25 2020. A number of audio cable manufacturers have sprung up over the last few years that are intent on proliferating myths about the technical aspects of interconnects power cords and speaker cables. Mogami wire is a large coaxial cable consisting of a grey plastic housing containing two concentric.

High definition cables another variety of low inductance cable from audio source consists of eight twisted pairs of wire arranged into a flat ribbon. Is synergy in audio cables real or snake oil. Cables alex rosner president rosner custom sound inc. Snake oil sells interconnects for audiophiles.

Since the staff at empirical audio is technical based we would like to dispel some of these myths for our customers here. We re just a couple of dudes looking to tidy up your schiit stack. Many of these products purport themselves to function in some highly technical realm of scientific explanation. Top ten signs an audio cable vendor is selling you snake oil by gene dellasala august 29 2004 the audio industry is full of hype with the most nonsense surrounding the simplest component of the a v chain interconnects and speaker cables.

For readers unfamiliar with snake oil it was a product widely available in the old west from traveling salesmen who convinced suckers that the snake oil. Their goal is to offer some miraculous improvement to an audio system for an exceedingly low cost. Myths and snake oil. Science or snake oil by nelson pass.