Has anyone tried these cables from Teo Audio? I know they’ve been around for awhile, but this is the first I’ve heard of them, and the idea of using a liquid conductor sounds intriguing.
“Signal is inherently a plasma. Ionic plasma, or a [sic] electron cloud, with a pressure differential, with respect to the variant we call an ‘audio signal’.” According to Ken, wire is a very imperfect medium – a molecular lattice structure – for conductance of this plasma electron cloud, albeit quite cheap. But, liquid metal is preferable, as it, “… has the least interference and least distortion.” He summarizes, “What we need…is something like a highly conductive gas, that has a neutral ground state, when unperturbed, and low mass. But, such a thing does not exist. So we’ll have go down one step further, into potential for interference with the signal cloud. This one step lower….might just be something like a ‘room temperature liquid metal’.”
It’s John Cleese in a Monty Python sketch. They would often use him as a transition between skits saying, “And now for something completely different.”
Well, the only “liquid metal” at room temperature is mercury, and I seriously doubt that the cables are filled with toxic material that could easily leak. Further the “technical” information on their web site is pretty much drivel, so I’m certainly not impressed by that.
Please - by all means, obtain a cable and let us know how it sounds.
These cables do not use Mercury, but rather a eutectic alloy, Galinstan. Galinstan is comprised of Gallium, Indium, and Tin. It has a very low melting point (-2 degrees F), so it is a liquid at room temperature.
“Conjured up from inky blackness come musical images of breathtaking clarity. An enchanting blend of tonal delicacy and raw dynamic power create a three-dimensional world of stunning harmonic accuracy played out on a soundstage of eerily realistic proportions. The spell is cast…”
(From a cable mfr’s website.) I thought I was happy with Iconoclast but now I think I gotta get me some of that “enchanting blend, etc,etc”