I wanted to take a moment to address our Linipur Video . In watching the video I realize that we have not completely helped you to understand what the problem is in using stranded audio cable, so I wanted to take a moment and help you understand just a little better, what we are trying to explain. First, it might be important for you to think about how many times a driver modulates per second and what it takes to get accuracy from an audio system. Let's say that we are trying to recreate 20,000 hertz. In order to recreate this frequency we need to accurately move a diaphragm 20,000 times per second. One modulation too many, or one modulation too few, and you have not hit your mark, meaning that you have not accurately reproduced this tone.
So how does that relate? Here is what we are trying to explain. Imagine a single modulation of a driver, like the very first outward movement in the goal for 20,000 driver modulations per second. If this frequency was coming from the CD player and then split into several different conductive pathways, like those found in all stranded cables, the positive charge of the AC waveform that is first flowing through is going to find several different conductors, all with different resistances, unless they are superconductors it is almost unthinkable that any two conductors, no matter how hard we might try, could be exactly the same in resistance, nor is it reasonable to suggest that any two millimeters, centimeters or meters of even the same conductor would have exactly the same resistance, so, back to our conductor and our signal. The signal flows through each conductor at a slightly varying speed, this is part of what resistance is known to do, change speed. That one little push represented by a small amount of electrical energy in a very fast and short burst may be traveling through thirty different conductors, and therefore, 30 different routes to get to its destination, the pre-amp.
To make an analogy, it would be like going from north to south New York, down 30 different routes. All of them will eventually get you to south New York, but each route will take a different period of time based on how many traffic lights, how many cars, pedestrians, whether it is a highway, or a city street, bridges, and maybe even the odd traffic jam. Understand that electrons certainly encounter every bit as much of a unique circumstance moving through each of the conductors as what we explained in New York traffic.
So what we are defining for you is a simple understanding of why this first signal is going to have a problem being accurate. Once you split the signal up into 30 different conductors you have created 30 different smaller versions of the original signal that all have to follow a different route and endure different circumstances (or resistance) to get to their destination. What comes into the next component, let's say the pre-amp, is 30 separate signals. Se your preamp doesn't understand, or care, that you think it is only one signal, it simply processes all 30 and outputs them once again, one after the other.
Immediately behind this signal to push the driver forward is the signal that will be telling the driver to come back, so we'll come back to this thought. As the signal leaving the pre-amplifier enters the next conductor, and let's say it has 30 strands, the first signal of the 30 that arrived from the CD player, will enter into each and every one of the 30 new conductors from pre-amp to power amp, the second signal that was slightly behind the first, also enters into all 30, in fact, in their turn all 30 of the first 30 signals enter into the next 30 conductors, building 900 new signals.
The first one to arrive at the power amplifier will be the one that came down the most conductive pathway from CD to pre-amp, and then found the most conductive strand in the next interconnect, from pre-amp to power amp, and it will be activating the transistor with a positive charge, telling them to send the positive position of the AC waveform down the wire, the next will come down the second most conductive pathway from cd player to pre-amplifier, down the most conductive pathway from pre-amp to amplifier and so on and so forth, until all 900 have finally arrived. But remember, now, that that negative was right behind, and it of course it too followed down the most conductive conductor of the first thirty, to most conductive conductor of the next thirty , and while the first 900 signals of positive are making their way through negative signals are already beginning their trip. The conflict becomes the greatest when these confused signals are activating both the positive and negative transistors at the same time. This is also true for tubes. When a positive transistor is charged as well as the negative transistor, the push will be the sum of whatever the negative transistor is taking away from the positive transistor. This is know as intermodulation, or non-linear distortion. Because of the confusing signals and the time delay and the resistive values being built by igniting both the push and the pull transistors at the same time, it is not possible to not affect the sound of the audio system, because the original signal has been changed, and will never be the same again.
Of course, this is even far more complicated than what I have explained, but it is simple and gets straight to the facts, and the fact is, that although cables can change the sound, are they honestly making the sound better? You have to know enough about conductors to be able to decide this, so we decided to try and help. Using this method of carrying the signal of course it is highly unlikely, unless the conductors were all superconductors with no resistance, that we could create the exact 20,000 hertz signal that we were trying to create.
If you still don't quite get this, we would be happy to explain it more over the phone. Give us a call so we can tell you more about Linipur, and our solutions to this problem.
Keep your ears tuned,
Rick Schultz














