RE: Re: [OT] HDMI leads - quality?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup - QUAD have been using garden grade mains cable as speaker leads for
years. :-D

I've been using 2.5sq/mm T&E for speaker cabling whenever it has been
"acceptable" since I was 16 (which I have just realised is a lot
more years
ago than I want to contemplate).

At the end of the day you just need to get as much copper in the path,
ensure the connections are over as large an area and as gas-tight as you
ca=
n
get them so that you get as low a resistance as is possible. Any part of
th=
e
contact that oxidizes is obviously in contact with air and so isn't
conducting so oxidization of contacts shouldn't be a worry either.

Phil

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> On Behalf Of James
> Sent: 13 June 2006 11:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] HDMI leads - quality?
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> I can't comment specifically about HDMI leads, but there=20
> seems to be a lot of rubbish talked about audio and video=20
> leads generally.=20
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> You said: "(Oxygen Free Copper and blessed by a naked monk at=20
> midnight on the third Saturday of the month whilst holding a=20
> gerbil!)"=20
> Well, that's OK, but you must make sure you get the right=20
> flavour of monk, and it's esential to use a fresh gerbil!
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> This site has a lot of debunking articles about the subject:
> http://sound.westhost.com/cables.htm
and is a good read...
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> This is a posting I made to the group a couple of years ago:
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> I saw this in a recent New Scientist magazine: It may put the=20
> louspeaker cable issue in perspective!!
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> Regards
> James
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> AT THE UK's annual hi-fi show, held recently in two hotels at=20
> London's Heathrow airport, several exhibitors were selling=20
> exotic cables to connect amplifiers to loudspeakers. The=20
> price of these cables was staggering. A 6-metre length of=20
> oxygen-free copper could cost as much as =A330,000 - and no,=20
> those four zeros are not a misprint.
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> We cannot comment on whether these cables really do make=20
> music sound better, because none of the exhibitors offered a=20
> controlled blind test - switching the same music between=20
> cheap and expensive cables without the listener knowing which=20
> was which.
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> But now that the show is over, we can reveal a secret.
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> One of the most popular demonstrations at the show was staged=20
> by British company Quad, to mark 50 years of making its=20
> world-famous hi-fi equipment.
> Recording engineer Tony Faulkner demonstrated Quad's latest=20
> loudspeakers. He explained how he used them to monitor the=20
> sound while making a recording of Saint-Sa=EBns's complete=20
> works for piano and orchestra, which recently won the coveted=20
> Record of the Year award from Gramophone magazine.
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> As hi-fi buffs enthused over the sound, we spotted that the=20
> speakers were connected by some orange wires that looked=20
> strangely familiar.
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> "Yes, they would look familiar if you have a garden",=20
> Faulkner told us.
> "Before the show opened we went over the road to the DIY=20
> superstore and bought one of those =A320 extension leads that=20
> Black & Decker sells for electric hedge-cutters. They are=20
> made from good, thick copper wire, look nice and sound good=20
> to me. The show's been running for three days and no one in=20
> the audience has noticed".
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