Vilken tur att du har råd att vara dum.
Wikipedia är en bra källa tycker jag. Rekommenderar att du läser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end_audio_cable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_wire
Tyvärr så är det bondfångeri du har råkat ut för. Det kan vara svårt att erkänna, även för en själv. Ett citat som du kan känna dig träffad av: -"The strategy in selling these products is, in part, to appeal to those who are looking to impress others with something unique and expensive."
- "For analog audio interconnecting cables, basic system frequency response can be calculated from the electrical properties of the cables and components on either side of the cables. These properties include electrical resistance, capacitance and inductance. For small-signal applications the degree of shielding is also important. All of these qualities are taken into account in the design of commercial and broadcast cables. High-end cables for the audiophile market often involve intricate construction geometries and exotic materials such as silver and oxygen-free copper (long-crystal, high-purity copper)."
-"There is debate among audiophiles surrounding the impact that high-end cables have on audio systems with audibility of the changes central to the discussion. Bill Whitlock, president of Jensen Transformers, has written that "no other product is as shrouded in hype and mystery as the audio cable!"[1] Whitlock continues by saying that the high-end segment of the audio industry "abounds with misinformation, myth, and mysticism."[1] There are claims that, even among audiophiles, in a double-blind test it is impossible to distinguish extremely expensive, exotic speaker cables from ordinary lamp cords or budget 12AWG copper speaker wire.[2][3]"
-"Another area of debate is speaker wire "quality". While some speaker wire marketers claim audible improvement with design or exotic materials, skeptics say that a few meters of speaker wire from the power amplifier to the binding posts of the loudspeakers cannot possibly have much influence because of the greater influence from complex crossover circuits found in most speakers and particularly from the speaker driver voice coils that have several meters of very thin wire. There is however agreement that the overall resistance of the speaker wire should not be too high.[2]
An accepted guideline is that the wire impedance should not exceed 5% of the entire circuit. For a given material, resistance is a function of length and thickness (specifically of the ratio of length to cross-sectional area). For this reason, lower impedance speakers require lower resistance speaker wire.[2] Longer cable runs need to be even thicker.[9] Once the 5% guideline is met, thicker wire will not provide any improvement.[2]
Roger Russell—a former engineer and speaker designer for McIntosh Labs—details how expensive speaker wire brand marketing misinforms consumers in his online essay called Speaker Wire - A History. He writes, "The industry has now reached the point where [wire] resistance and listening quality are not the issues any more, although listening claims may still be made....The strategy in selling these products is, in part, to appeal to those who are looking to impress others with something unique and expensive."[2]"
