Originally Posted by wanderman
bigger = better
/thread. high gauge cables allow the sound to flow freely, so your are provided with a more dynamic sound with a higher gauge cable.
But at what point is the cable big enough that there is no difference, or that other factors come into play?
Some companies make big honkin' heavy RCA's to make the current "flow freely", but Eichmann bullets use tiny connections to avoid eddy currents or something like that. One might be right, but both can't be right.......and the possiblity remains that both are wrong.
Think about the size of the traces on the PCB that lead to the connections to the RCA or XLR jacks.....virtually any interconnect is larger by orders of magnitude.
The concept of "flow" really needs to be put into perspective here.
Over 99% of the electrons in your IC's are the ones that were there when you bought them. It would take 48 years of running a 2V DC signal through a 1 meter, #22 AWG copper interconnect into a 22.1 kohm load (typical of many power or headamps) to replace the electrons originally in the conductor.....and that's a DC voltage. An audio signal is an AC voltage, so the effect is probably more akin to vibration than flow.