[kj] (OT) stereo issues...

[T.B.]

"Brendan Quinn" wrote:



> Yeah I don't know too much about it but paying all that money for cable

> sounds a bit dodgy to me. A $3 computer network cable can transmit data

> (digital or digitally-encoded analog) without any loss whatsoever...and it

> seems to me that the limiting factor is generally gonna be the speakers

> anyway. Admittedly I don't know enough about analog transmission to have a

> professional opinion, I know analog over digital probably isn't quite the

> same as pure analog the whole way....but it's a moot point if all you 

> listen

> to are CDs and mp3s.


Especially for speaker wire, basically it all comes down to the guage of the 
wire vs the length.  Copper is copper and dressing it up with gold coated 
connectors and fancy looking rubber grips is just window dressing and in 
many cases actually interfers with the quality of the signal.

T.B.