Right on mate,

Dave Oliver,

the editor has offered a room at the Hi Fi show next week that we could debate this very issue in, and you know what, no one has come forward to profess the cable  issue, now that is a surprise after the many heated debates on this site alone.

But as always when it comes to the 'O.K. then prove it side of things', one is met with a deadly silence!

However I will be at the show on the trade day, maybe meet up.

I'm sure you are right all this cable talk is a load of B/S, but what surprises me is the number of companies, some quite large, who live off the complete B/S, an outfit in the Lake District comes to mind, with amazing claims as to what improvements are possible.

As a sound engineer, I have to measure results, and having measured even the cheapest interconnects and found them to be 100% O.K. for audio, and we are talking ten mega Hertz's bandwidth, and zero distortion, so what more can a cable do ???

If one really wants to improve a system then look at the technology, not the cables or the 'supports' but the underlying technology, a recent experience comes to mind.

With my old DVD player I did had some difficulty reading the 'credits' at the end of a film, I am particularly interested in credits as I am often in them, however on changing to a new 'upsampling' system from Maranze, suddenly these were totally readable.

Now that is an improvement, not a 'maybe a bit better' but a 'could hardly read them' to a 'completely no problem' change.

I have never heard of a cable creating a similar difference.

New design idea, take a digital stream from a CD, do the crossover calculations in DSP, convert these results into PWM, then drive the speakers directly from the timed signals. No analogue intervention, no LCR crossover, no losses, complete accuracy etc.

What do you think ???

John...