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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Interconnect cables
Message-ID: <1535@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:44:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1535
Posted: Sat Jul 13 16:44:43 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:33:33 EDT
References: <691@charm.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <691@charm.UUCP> prk@charm.UUCP (Paul Kolodner) writes:
>After talking to audio salesmen today, I ran out and bought Monster
>Cable Interlink 4 cables for my preamp, amp, etc.  I'm skeptical
>about this crap, but I'm hopelessly compulsive, with money to burn,
>so who cares?  I noticed a little arrow on the cable to tell you
>which way the signal should flow.  This leads to a question:
>Can anyone out there tell me how an electrical current can flow 
>differently down a cable in one direction than in the other
>without violating the symmetry properties of Maxwell's equations?
>I was too embarrassed to asked the salesman, cause he seemed pretty
>smart...

first, in an AC circuit, current flows in both directions.  only if
your cable is a diode will this make any difference.  the intra-cable
diode effects are neglible compared to the contact effects, which are
totally neglible unless you deliberately grow an oxide coat on the
contacts of sizable thickness.  what you should be paying for are
heavily gold plated connectors for reliable contacts, good shielding,
low resistance, inductance, and capacitance.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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