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The Truth About Spiral Shield Cables Normally when a spiral shield is used on a cable it is for one of three reasons, increased flexibility, ease of termination, or reduced manufacturing costs...

Top Ten Signs an Audio Cable Vendor is Selling You Snake Oil this is a top 10 list of snake oil scams often seen with consumer audio speaker and interconnect cables. Update includes testing of Audioquest 72VDC DBS system.

Transmission Line Effects in Video Cables We established a pretty good foundation of the important metrics governing component video cables in our Component Video Cable Definitive Guide article. However, we recently stumbled on some very…

SilverSmith Audio Cables Interview Jeffrey Smith from SilverSmith Audio was nice enough to engage in an informative interview about his cable philosophies and the "science" behind them...

Loudspeakers: When is Good Enough, Enough? Part 1 Initially, the Audioholics topic that impressed most was their multi-part series on cables . After reading that series just about anyone who…

Physics Tutorial 2: The Physics of Hearing This article describes the physics behind human hearing and sound waves. How the ear works and how we perceive sound is discussed.

Audio Amplifier Classes This is a brief article comparing the different classes of audio amplifiers. Class D vs Class AB and more types are discussed.

Audio Cables - Science or Religion? Audiophile cables are surrounded by slick marketing designed to convince audiophiles that they will improve the sound of their hifi system. We discuss the myths and what really matters in cables.

Cable Distortion and Dielectric Biasing Debunked This article explains the concept of distortion and whether or not cables can exhibit non linear behavior to produce it.

Cross Coax Cables Design vs Zip Cord There seems to be a trend lately for DIY self proclaimed audio gurus to design alternative speaker cable designs using Coax cables (namely Belden 89259). While their efforts should be applauded, they…