My take on this is weird. I USED science 100% to determine HOW to make the cables. NOTHING wasn’t measured or calculated. I just added some more comment on Vp through the audio band WITH the measurement graphs and calculations off those graphs to prove it. How on earth is this a FRAUD?
The cables REMAIN as they are in measure, and clearly BETTER than legacy products be it speaker or IC RCA and XLR. Better is better technically.
THIS IS WHAT I AM SELLING, and THIS IS WHAT MADE ME HEAR A DIFFERENCE, better balanced measurements across the board. If your system does not respond to the change you’re good…use up to what last did make a difference for the cheapest price and STOP.
But, if a product comes along that is DEMONSTRATABLE improved through actual measurements, and can back those up with DATA that ALSO is ACCURATE (Vp is material dependent and won’t ever change based on design) then maybe we should consider that to sound different, it sure as heck has to MEASURE different. Some items are fixed, due to physics, and I’m not here to tell you otherwise but to SHOW YOU this is the case!
I have tons of data on how cables really work, yet on this exact same site, scads of people think audio cables are 8-ohms because the “spec” said so. WHAT DOES THE SWEPT TESTS DATA SHOW!
Every iota of data is 100% correct on ICONOCLAST. What I do not know is straight up exposed! Copper, what the hell? Why does current coherence matter? What the hell?
What I do know, is to make the cables WORK, what is indeed scientifically true needs to REMAIN true, ALWAYS. There are not one single thing that is “discovered” making ICONOCLAST that is somehow changing anything in physics. Sorry, but ICONOCLAST from that perspective is as ordinary as a black hole.
What is not ordinary, is that the geometry and balance of HOW the current laws of physics can be manipulated do indeed change how a cable sounds, it has to! Electromagnetic fields around a wire are a SUPERPOSITION of how the electrons are effected by the DIELECTRICS in a cable and the DISTANCE. Change those things and you change how the field behaves around the wire.
At some point we can say we can’t hear it, fine. At some point I hope that IS INDEED TRUE! This is where we are going as a team in this hobby. But, until we ALL pay attention to how cables are measured and tested, we can’t even begin to tell what’s the truth, what’s a lie, and what is indeed happening that we can’t yet define.
Too many lies forced me to make ICONOCLAST. Yet, I’m the fraud in all this? If we push to keep improving cable’s measured performance, this effort can take place ANYWHERE. What can be HEARD depends on your system interaction with the cable. But PSAudio, AVS forums or ANY other place that is even remotely truthful can see better is better and keep on making things better as long as the current laws of physics are applied.
I’m hiding something? I pray tell want to know what that is. To kill a secret just tell ONE person what it is. I’m a blabber mouth, I don’t do secrets and don’t tell me yours!
It can’t sound better if it isn’t designed and measure better - “Sound Designs Creates Sound Performance” in the marketing version.
There is a cost to being better. I have tried to drive the price DOWN and DOWN to half where we used to be. Costs are debatable it seems until YOU are the one running a business, then the chicken comes home to roost.
I am not ashamed of our prices at the current VOLUME we sell. Compare what we offer, how it works, and that’s that on price. You can get a better changes for less or you can’t. Fill-in those holes first, but don’t be surprised that a 2K set of speaker cables sound far, far better than going from an ODYSSEY KISMET amplifier and to a SIM AUDIO MOON W-8 amplifier for over 4X more money between the two amps and well above 10K in price!
The truth is I’m too pragmatic to ever be a fraud at anything. My goal is to allow you to know as much as I do, and back it up with the data.
We’ve sold enough cables, and had pro reviews that use hundreds of cables, to see the consistency of changes reported by end users. Far from magic, the cables do improve the clarity, sound stage positioning, imaging stability, and timber of what you hear.
Notice I did NOT say frequency response since I find that less than accurate in measurements. But PHASE responses with each frequency alter the mentioned attributes. WHEN those frequencies are aligned in time changes things. Good old L and C and the within dielectrics used. The totality of information, the spectral magnitude over time, is the same on any cable just not when we get the information. We don’t have enough attenuation to remove information. This is what needs to be better understood, how the voltage at any instant in time is a superposition of the timing in the cable due to L, C and the dielectric. Add to that how the electromagnetic field is changed by materials (copper) and the distance from the wire center to the outer surface of the wire.
Everything I do will follow with a flood of data supporting any changes. It is what and how I do things for you. My take is you invite me into your home and I want to make a good impression.
Time to me is of no value. What we DO during that time is the value. I made ICONOCLAST for you and I feel it presents value.
Galen Gareis