29-Jul-2020, 08:56
@Pim ,
You may be right and I have to wonder whether there could be an audible difference but I don't know enough to say whether or not there will be.
BUT…
I can remember the times when people have quoted really nice, compelling reasons for why something should not make a difference and the subsequent discovery that there was a difference because the reasons quoted did not refer to the correct data. For example the big fight in the '60's about whether 2 amplifiers with the same THD rating could sound different. Some people said they heard a difference. The measurements made and quoted showed no difference and people claimed that was a proof that there was no audible difference. The problem was that the measurements quoted were the simple THD as a % measurement and they truly were identical, or so close it didn't matter, but the problem was that while the total THD figure was the same, the spectrum of the harmonic distortion was very different and those differences were audible. Use the wrong data and proofs just fall flat on their face.
You're right about the lengths of the speaker cables but there is a very small difference. The positive leg of the speaker cable to the woofer is the length of the jumper cable longer than its negative leg and the negative leg of the cable to the tweeter is the length of the jumper cable longer than its positive leg. We're talking a matter of inches at signal transmission speed so I really can't see how the cable length would make a difference. On the other hand there is a slight difference in the connection and how current flows through the speaker as a whole. Does that change something in the behaviour of the speaker? I don't know.
What I do know is that saying that it can't make a difference because the difference in speaker cable length is insignificant and can't affect anything does not show that there is no other difference to be considered or that there is no difference attributable to some other reason than the difference in cable length.
We've got an absence of proof that this makes a difference and that is not a proof that it does not make a difference. If
You may be right and I have to wonder whether there could be an audible difference but I don't know enough to say whether or not there will be.
BUT…
I can remember the times when people have quoted really nice, compelling reasons for why something should not make a difference and the subsequent discovery that there was a difference because the reasons quoted did not refer to the correct data. For example the big fight in the '60's about whether 2 amplifiers with the same THD rating could sound different. Some people said they heard a difference. The measurements made and quoted showed no difference and people claimed that was a proof that there was no audible difference. The problem was that the measurements quoted were the simple THD as a % measurement and they truly were identical, or so close it didn't matter, but the problem was that while the total THD figure was the same, the spectrum of the harmonic distortion was very different and those differences were audible. Use the wrong data and proofs just fall flat on their face.
You're right about the lengths of the speaker cables but there is a very small difference. The positive leg of the speaker cable to the woofer is the length of the jumper cable longer than its negative leg and the negative leg of the cable to the tweeter is the length of the jumper cable longer than its positive leg. We're talking a matter of inches at signal transmission speed so I really can't see how the cable length would make a difference. On the other hand there is a slight difference in the connection and how current flows through the speaker as a whole. Does that change something in the behaviour of the speaker? I don't know.
What I do know is that saying that it can't make a difference because the difference in speaker cable length is insignificant and can't affect anything does not show that there is no other difference to be considered or that there is no difference attributable to some other reason than the difference in cable length.
We've got an absence of proof that this makes a difference and that is not a proof that it does not make a difference. If
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